Effective Teachers
Effective teachers have done this for classroom management for each class.
What is planned?
Arguably the most important and first ESCM.
What is establishing expectations?
A minimally intrusive intervention strategy for off task behaviour.
Body language encouraging (smiling, nodding, gesturing and proximity)
Cueing with parallel acknowledgment (praising a particular student to prompt others).
Key things to remember when establishing expectations.
What is 3-5 clearly defined rules/expectations aligned with school expectations?
Student arrives late to class and begins to disrupt lesson.
What is restating expectations, giving clear instructions, following through with consequences.
The effective teacher is a model of this.
What is consistency?
Language that establishes expectations, giving instructions, waiting and scanning and cueing with parallel acknowledgement
What is an example of Language of Expectation?
What is inappropriate behaviours cease, appropriate behaviour begins. Prevent behaviour recurring.
The most intrusive action in your classroom management that should only be used if all other strategies have been exhausted.
What is removing a student from the learning?
Students arrive to class unsettled and without equipment.
What is waiting and scanning, restating expectations, cueing with parallel acknowledgement, following through.
A teacher is said to be 'in balance' when they have these two things.
1. Clear expectations
2. Established a balance in their use of verbal and non verbal language when acknowledging appropriate behaviour and correcting inappropriate behaviour.
When you should go over rules and expectations.
What is the first day and everyday?
Three essential skills that support the management of problem behaviours when they are occuring.
What is: Body Language encouraging (non verbal cue), Descriptive Encouraging (verbal cue), Redirecting to the learning, Giving a choice, Selective attending?
Imbalances in behaviour management are the result of one of these things.
What is unclear expectations, too much acknowledgement, too much correction?
Student is out of their seat, disrupting others from the learning and not engaging in the learning.
What is Body language encouraging, descriptive encouraging, redirecting to the learning, giving a choice, following through?
Most researchers agree that this is an essential element of student success.
What is effective classroom management?
The best rules are these three things.
Positive, clear and consistent.
A strategy that avoids unintentionally reinforcing off task or disruptive behaviour, it is a deliberate process used with a discrete timeframe.
What is selective attending?
Key aspects that lead to successful classroom management.
What is: supporting each other, planning for the managment of your classroom - including positive and negative behaviours, effective communication with students and parents?
Students were turning around, hitting people, talking over the teacher, shouting out, taking other students' belongings.
What is reminder of expectations, redirecting to the learning, giving a choice, following through.
Decades of research has identified and defined three key characteristics of effective teachers as, classroom management, lesson mastery and this.
What is positive expectations?
An important skill that takes time to establish well and can make a significant difference to students being on task.
What is giving clear explicit instructions?
A vital skill that is necessary when all other skills have not been effective. It clearly establishes that you mean what you say and should be planned for.
What is following through?
When waiting and scanning teachers use this powerful tool.
What is vaseline eye?
Student was continually seeking attention from other students, would settle for periods of time but then became unsafe misusing equipment in the room.
What is Restate expectations and instructions, selective attending, descriptive encouraging, redirecting to the learning, follow through (withdrawal from the classroom)?