Creating a Productive Learning Environment

Creating a Setting Conducive to Learning

Classroom Management

Students are consistently engaged in productive learning

Similar to authoritative parenting

Effective Classroom Management

A physical arrangement that focuses students' attention

Have students facing the board or area where information is

Establish and maintain good working relationships

Psychological climate where students can feel they belong and are intrinsically motivated

Ask the students how they feel before class

Reasonable limits for behavior

Activities that encourage on task behavior

independent work

Regularly monitor what students are doing

Modify instructional strategies when necessary

Students finding hard to grasp information directly, try indirectly through hands on activities

Take developmental differences and student diversity in account

if you student is a from a different culture, has cognitive development differences

Arranging the Classroom

encourages students interaction and discourages it when it is counterproductive

minimize distractions

facilitate teacher-student interaction

identify locations that allow easy monitoring of student behavior

Class wide use of technology

Productive Teacher-Student Relationships

communicate caring and respect for students

work hard to improve relationships

Psychological Climate

goal-oriented, businesslike, nonthreatening atmosphere

communicate that school and academics are important

give students some control over class activities

general sense of community and belonging

Setting Limits

establish initial rules and procedures

present in an informational manner rather than controlling manner

periodically review

acknowledge students' feelings about rules and requirements

Enforce rules consistently and fairly

Keeping Students on Task

ensure students are productively engaged

choose tasks that are appropriate for the students knowledge and skills

provide structure for activities and assignments

plan transition times

Monitoring Students

Know what students are doing at all times (Withitness)

Scan the classroom regularly

regular eye contact

know when and why misbehaviors occur

Instructional Strategies

Consider is the instructional strategies are the reason why students display off task behaviors

Accommodating Differences

Developmental

Individual

temperament

Cultural Ethinc

standards for behavior

Gender

Family/socio-economic

Special Needs

Coordinating Efforts With Others

Working with Faculty

Develop sense of school community

communicate and collaborate regularly

identify common goals

establish shared set strategies for encouraging student behavior

promote equality and multicultural sensitivity

School Wide positive behavior support

Community

Coordinate activities and efforts with

youth groups

community organizations

churches

local judicial systems

Parents

Treat them as partnes

Communicate on a regular basis

Encourage involvement in school activites

Dealing With Misbehaviors

Misbehavior: any action that can

disrupt students learning and planned class activities

Puts one or more students' physical safety or psychological well-being in jeopardy

violates basic moral or ethical standards

Dealing with Misbehavior

Ignore

Use a cue to signal appropriate behavior

Discuss privately with the students

Teach self-regulation

Meet with parents

Planned, systematic interventions

cognitive behavioral therapy

Addressing Aggression and Violence at School

Aggression and Violence

Most aggression at school involves psychological harm, minor physical injury, and destruction of property

Three-Level Approach

Level 1: Create a nonviolent school environment

Level 2: Intervene early for students at risk

Level 3: Provide intensive intervention for students in trouble

Gang Related Problems

Develop and communicate, enforce policies

Identify the scope and nature of the gang activity within the population

Forbid clothing or behaviors that signify membership