instructional classroom management
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TSL3093 - Managing Primary ESL ClassroomTRANSCRIPT
INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
• Introduction• The Kounin Model• The Jones Model
INTRODUCTION
Well-planned and well-implemented instruction will prevent most classroom problems and
make the pupils engage more in the learning process with activities that meet their interest,
needs and abilities.
THE KOUNIN MODEL
INTRODUCTION
• Successful managers (teachers), totally aware of everything in the classroom environment
• Prevent classroom problems• Keep pupils actively engaged• Conducted well-planned lesson with smooth
transitions
SKILLS
Withitness
Overlapping Activities
Movement Management & group focus
Withitness
Skill to know what is going on in all
parts of the classroom at all
times
“Withit” teachers respond
immediately to pupil misbehaviour
– detect who
Major components:1) Scanning the class
frequently2) Establishing eye
contact with individual pupils
3) Having eyes in the back of your head
4) Do not make timing errors (waiting too
long)5)Do not make target errors (blaming wrong
person)
Skilled at Overlapping
Example: Keeping a small group on task, while also helping other pupils
with their seatwork
The ability to monitor the whole class at all times
Overlapping – handling two or more activities or groups at the
same time
MOVEMENT MANAGEMENT & GROUP FOCUS
• The ability to make smooth lesson transitions• Keep an appropriate pace and involve all
pupils in the lesson• Do not leave the lesson hanging• Keep pupils alert by holding their attention
THE JONES MODEL
INTRODUCTION
• Frederick Jones (1979) found that teachers lose 50% or more of their instructional time through pupils’ time-wasting (walking and talking around class).
Body Language
Incentive System
Limit Setting Giving Help Efficiently
STRATEGIES
Limit Setting
• The establishment of classroom boundaries for appropriate behaviour.
• Limits: -Should include the formation of rules of behaviour-What to do when stuck on seatwork-What to do when finished with assigned seatwork
Body Language
• A set of physical mannerisms that tend to get pupils back to work
• Most effective ways:– Physical proximity to pupils, direct eye contact,
body position, facial expressions and voice tone
Incentive Systems
• Using preferred activities:– Educational games, free reading, when it’s free time-on
computer (motivational reward for desired behavior)
• Using peer pressure (quite effective motivator)– Time can be deducted (to misbehave pupils)– Using stopwatch placed in classroom
Giving Help Efficiently
• Related time on task• Average – teacher spends 4minutes helping
individual pupils (having difficulty with seatwork)
• Can be cut to not more than 2seconds per pupil
• More pupils to be helped and reduces the tendency for pupils to work only when the teacher is standing near them