Classroom Management
When rules and procedures should be put in place
What is within the first 2-3 weeks?
A teacher’s variability and flexibility in delivering instructional content
What is instructional variety?
The time that students are engaged in thinking about and actively learning the presented material
What is student engagement?
How much time the teacher spends teaching, students learning
What is task orientation?
New teachers focus on themselves, the task and then the impact on students.
What is the concern theory?
An effective management strategy that involves building relationships.
What is focus on group cohesiveness and socialization.
Using attention-gaining devices, showing enthusiasm and animation, mixing rewards and reinforcements.
What are teaching behaviors?
A student's ongoing personal evaluation of whether he or she can be successful in a challenge.
What is a sense of competence?
Maximizing students' growth by providing alternate paths to learning; individualized instruction
What is differentiation?
Paying attention to more than one thing at a time
What is overlapping?
Anticipation, deflection, reaction
What is low-profile management?
Have single or limited number of right answers that are commonly associated with the goals of Direct Instruction
What are convergent questions?
A description of the noteworthy student performance and a signal of teacher approval
What is teacher praise?
Instruction in which teacher provides most of information, passes on facts and rules.
What is direct instruction?
Teacher’s reaction to problem behavior which does not produce conformity by other members of the class
What is the ripple effect?
Knowing what’s happening in your classroom
What is with-it-ness?
Questions that follow questions and are carefully crafted to deepen, enrich, and extend an earlier response
What are probes?
Informs the learner about the adequacy of the response and given in a way that does not embarrass the responder
What is feedback?
Physically moving closer to a student to promote compliance of rules.
What is proximity?
•Planning
•Organizing
•Arranging
•Monitoring
•Anticipating
What are key components of classroom management?
Four reasons why students often misbehave
What are power, revenge, attention, want to be left alone?
Refers to the amount of time a teacher gives a learner to respond
Allows all learners time to think about, extend, or modify their responses
What is wait time?
The process of observing, mentally recording, and (when needed) correcting or redirecting student behavior
What is monitoring?
Demonstrating or showing students what something should look like
What is modeling?
Three things that influence the learning climate
What are teacher concerns, warmth and control and the social environment?