Managing the Learning Environment
A fire drill, a phone call, or a visit from another teacher or administrator.
What are interruptions encountered when trying to teach a lesson?
Arrange furniture and materials in a way that focuses on learning.
What are ways to solve classroom management problems before they occur?
Yelling, threatening, and intimidating.
What are examples of authoritarian classroom management?
Making yourself visible for safety and efficiency.
What are things a teacher should do in a lab setting?
A lesson may fail or take less time time than expected.
What are reasons that make classroom management challenging?
Grade level, subjects taught, teacher philosophy, and size of the classroom.
What are different variations to arrange classrooms?
Low self-esteem, complacency, and anger.
What are results from authoritarian classroom management?
Knowing the students' cultural background, using cultural appropriate strategies.
What is multicultural competence?
Students enjoy school only because the teacher has made a positive environment for them.
What are ways that a teacher can motivate students who normally aren't self-motivated?
The term for a teacher who teaches in several different classrooms.
What is a "floating" teacher?
Using material and emotional means to control students.
What is manipulative classroom management?
Students are stuck on problem solving, they are chatting and not engaged, or overwhelmed by multiple tasks.
What are reasons that classroom management is an on-going concern for teachers?
Having a permanent cart for supplies, or having a space in each room for your own use.
What are ways to assist a "floating" teacher?
Rewarding students for standard behavior, or punishing all students for the bad behavior of just one student.
What are strategies of a manipulative teacher?
Preventing management problems,increasing students' focus on learning.
What are ways that teachers can earn student commitment?
Creating spaces where students keep daily belongings, coats, and lunches.
What are things elementary school teachers need to consider for effective classroom management?
Insecurity, anxiety, and resentfulness.
What are the results of manipulative classroom management?