Posts Tagged ‘behaviour management’
Review of Classroom Management Books
Those who yearn to become an educator have been trained extensively to teach their lessons properly. Their college education has prepared them with teaching techniques that would allow students to understand easy to difficult subjects. However, their education may not have fully covered what goes on in a real classroom, where students’ personalities cause stress and problems to the teacher. Although there are a handful of modest and behaving students, the rest can be troublesome and intolerable. If the teacher is not ready for this kind of environment, the school year might be wasted on striving for different methods to get the students to behave, and the teacher gamble losing track of the lessons. Therefore, it is necessary that teachers are also educated in building classroom discipline.
The Secrets to Building Classroom Discipline
Building classroom discipline cannot be created with just one snap of the fingers. A teacher who does not represent the right kind of attitude would easily be trampled by his students – the children would not pay attention to a teacher who lacks approach, no matter how hard he tries to control them.
Make Sure Children’s Behaviour Is ‘Marked’ Like Maths And Science…
Ok, we can’t ‘tick’ children all over to mark their behaviour as we can in maths and science books. There must be a rule somewhere to say we’re not allowed to do that… I suppose that’s reasonable.
Think about what you are doing when you mark children’s work. You’re letting them know when they’ve got something right. You’re telling them that you’re pleased with them and acknowledging the efforts made in class and also that they seem to have gained an understanding of the subject. You’re also letting them know what they’ve got to achieve to move on to a higher level and have a greater level of understanding of a subject.
It’s equally important that children (and the teacher) know when something is wrong. It could be through making a mistake, misunderstanding a concept, not listening well enough or not making sufficient effort in class. Marking work will make sure any misconceptions can be sorted out, either with more input or consolidation exercises.
Is Managing Children’s Behaviour All About Control?
I’m quite often asked if my successful behaviour management techniques are about control.
The other day a woman was walking her dog by my house and I saw it refuse to move. As she pulled on the lead the collar slipped off and the dog ran up the road in the direction of the very busy main road. When she shouted, the dog luckily sat down and she was able to replace its collar. The next try failed and the dog was nearer the main road. The woman was panicking and gave in to the dog’s desire to go in the opposite direction from where she wanted it to go. So, the dog got it’s own way, it’s life put in danger from the traffic – all because she didn’t have the right equipment, was using the wrong techniques and was in the wrong place and failed to have control.
A few days ago I was driving and noticed a woman waiting to cross the road with 2 children either side of a pram. One child ran into the road in front of my car. Fortunately I was being observant and not in a dream and stopped before hitting the child. The situation could have been distastrous. The woman had few options – leave the pram and other child, push the pram and the other child into the road to rescue the one in the middle, scream at the child – all the options were risky. The same as the lady with the dog the situation arose because the adult didn’t have control of the situation and three children were put into a dangerous position.