Classroom Management
This seating arrangement is often used to encourage collaboration and discussion among middle school students.
What are clusters or grouped desks?
Having this in the lesson plan verifies the teacher is teaching Texas' standards for what students should be able to know and do.
What are TEKS?
This is stated in terms of observable and measurable behaviors
What is a behavioral (content) objective?
A critical procedure for maintaining classroom order
What is a signal for gaining students' attention?
A key principle of classroom management that emphasizes students' ability to regulate their own behavior instead of relying solely on teacher-imposed discipline.
What is self-management / self-regulation?
The best way to ensure students understand classroom procedures.
What is the explicitly teaching and modeling them?
This strategy helps students apply new skills by engaging them in structured practice before independent work.
What is guided practice / collaborative practice?
Awareness of what is occurring in all areas of the classroom
What is with-it-ness?
One way teachers can foster a welcoming classroom culture
What is greeting at the door?
This strategy involves reinforcing positive student behavior by rewarding it rather than focusing on negative behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
Teachers should establish these on the first day to create a predictable and efficient classroom routine.
What are daily procedures?
This element of direct instruction ensures the lesson connects to prior knowledge and provides relevance.
What is focus?
These are the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, in order from most complex to least complex.
What are creating, evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, and remembering?
Students know that assignments are based on learning objectives
What is effective teaching / teacher?.
Middle school students tend to test boundaries. What is the best way to reinforce expectations?
What is consistently applying procedures and expectations?
This classroom management technique ensures students know expectations by stating them clearly and consistently.
What is explicit instruction?
During this phase of direct instruction, the teacher models the skill or concept students will be learning.
What is presentation?
Yielding to the behavior or the opinion of others
What is submissive behavior / deference?
The teacher gives only generalized praise to the students
What is ineffective teaching?
This classroom strategy helps students understand expectations and prevents disruptive behavior.
What is a behavior management plan?
According to Wong, positive expectations from teachers contribute to which student outcome?
What is higher student achievement?
To assess student understanding, teachers use this step to check for comprehension before moving forward.
What is formative assessment?
Texas' state assessment program designed to measure the extent to which students have learned and are able to apply the knowledge and skills defined in the state-mandated curriculum standards.
What is STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness)?
This practice creates a productive learning environment
What is the primary goal of effective classroom management?
The physical environment of the room, the extent to which it is safe and orderly, and its emotional atmosphere.
What is classroom climate?