Creating A Positve Environment of Learning

Maham Naveed

General Strategies

Authoritative Classroom Management style

Authoritarian Classroom Management style

Permissive Classroom Management style

Students need a positive environment for learning

Authoritative Classroom Management style

•Encouage students to be independent thinkers

•Show a caring attitude towards students

•Help student become active, self regulated learners

•Teachers clarify rules and regulations

Authoritarian Classroom Management style

•Restrictive and punitive•Focus on keeping order in the classroom

rather than on isntruction and learning

•Students in authoritarian classroom Tend to be passive learnerFail to initiate activitesExpress anxiety about social comparisonHave poor communication skills.

Permissive Classroom Management style

•Provides student with little support for developing learning skills or managing their behavior

•Students in Permissive classroom Inadequate academic skills Low self control

Creating Teaching and Maintaining Rules and Procedures

Teaching: Effective classroom managers•Show teachers are “With it” (Jacob Kounin,

1970)•Cope effectively with overlapping

situation •keep the flow of a lesson moving smoothly•Engage students in variety of challenging

activities

Maintaining Rules and Procedures•Rules focus on general or specific

expectations or standards for behavior•Rules tend not to change

•General rule such as Respect other person

•Specific Rule Cell phones must always be turned off when

you are in classroom

Maintaining Procedures•Procedure usually applied to specific

activity

•Aim is to accomplish something instead of prohibiting behavior or defing a general standards

•Procedues may change because routines and activities in classrooms change

Principles for Established Rules and Procedues for Classroom1. Reasonable and necessary

2. Clear and comprehensible

3. Consistent with instructional and learning goals

4. Consistent with school rules

Getting Students to Cooperate•Develop a positive relationship with students

▫Teacher should care about students as individual’s part from their academic work helps to gain their cooperation

(Jones & jones, 2010)

▫Classroom atmosphere should be relaxed and pleasant

▫Friendly say hello to students at door▫Brief note on encouragement of student

Get Students to Share and Assume Responsibility•Sharing responsibility with students increases

the student’s commitment to the decisions (Blumenfeld, Kempler, 2006)Guidelines

Involve students in planning and implementingEncourage students to judge their own behaviorDon’t accept excusesLet students participate in decision making by

holding classroom meetings

Reward Appropriate Behavior• Choose Effective Reinforcers

Effective reward might be PraisePleasurable activities helps in cooperation

• Use Prompt and shaping effectivelyPrompt come in the form of hints and remindersReward for specified target behavior

• Use Reward to Provide Information about MasteryMastery can increase the intrinsic motivation

and sense of responsibility (Vargas, 2009)

Classroom Management and Diversity

Classroom Management and Diversity•The growing diversity of students makes

classroom management more challenging (Scarlett & singh,

2009)

•Engaging in such culturally responsive can help teachers to reduce discipline problems in their classroom

(Gollnick & Chinn, 2009)