Classroom managment

CLASSROOM MANAGMENT

Effective Classroom Management

Creating a learning environment is one of the most challenging things the teachers face. It includes trust, professional readiness, soft skills and ability to adapt. Generations change, so do the means and measures of how to create an environment where learners will feel confident, eager to study and motivated. 

Rules and Routines

Some of the rules can be as follows:

Establishing rules and routines from the very first class can be very decisive in how our classes will proceed afterwards. Students have and will always try to challenge the teachers, workaround the rules and relax if not driven otherwise. Showing that we know what we are doing and letting the students know the classroom rules can have a crucial influence in creating a healthy learning environment.

Being on time

Being ready for home tasks (if any)

Meeting deadlines

Creating a Positive Environment

Needless to say that people feel more comfortable and relaxed when there is no stress. Providing an environment like this is our job in the learning process.

I still cannot understand the idea that a teacher must be strict to be respected and listened to.

I do agree that there should be some subordination, but fear is not what I have in mind.

Actually, having quite friendly and positive relations with students have always worked for me, no matter if they were teenagers or adults.

Show the Progress!

Helping the students see the results of their progress is the way to make them motivated and wanting to do more.

The most practiced way of doing it are tests and grades.

This, however, does not have to be the only way out.

Constructive feedback on students’ progress, praising the good results, stressing the things to consider working on and ways how to do it have proven to be more effective. 

ICQs (Instruction checking questions)

We have all been faced with the situation when an instruction has been given and one (if we are lucky) or more students were still confused about what on earth the teacher wants them to do 🙂

A nice way to avoid this is using ICQs.

After an instruction has been given, we can ask one of the students to repeat what they are supposed to do. Interestingly, students learn from each other and listen to each other better than they do to the teacher.

Interaction patterns — Groups and Pairs

Maybe not so in the past, but today group and pair work are very much practiced in every classroom. We have come to learn that they help the students to be more responsible for their learning, to be more independent in doing tasks, less dependent on the teacher, boost communication skills and learn from each other.

There are different ideas on how to arrange students to be more effective. Some say, that strong students should work together and the weak ones together. They explain it this way — if a strong and a weak student work together, the strong one always leads the discussion/the task, whereas the weak one is left out.

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