Supporting Behavioral Needs: A Multi-Tiered Approach. Contents - The Positive Encourager. 20 Classroom Management Strategies and Techniques [+ Downloadable List] Paper airplanes fly across the room. Students race between desks. You can’t get a word in, as they yell over you. Disruptive behavior doesn’t have to be this dramatic, like a movie scene you’d watch in a media literacy lesson, but poor classroom management will almost assuredly elevate your stress and burnout rates. Unfortunately, a 2019 report indicates that teachers overwhelmingly report a lack of professional development support in improving classroom management. Despite this unideal situation, there are straightforward and effective classroom management approaches you can implement by yourself.
Available as a downloadable list to keep at your desk, below are 20 research-backed classroom management strategies and techniques. Use the ones that best appeal to your situation and teaching style. Universal classroom management strategies for educators Try these effective classroom management strategies with your students to become a happier, more effective teacher. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 30 Techniques to Quiet a Noisy Class. One day, in front 36 riotous sophomores, I clutched my chest and dropped to my knees like Sergeant Elias at the end of Platoon.
Instantly, dead silence and open mouths replaced classroom chaos. Standing up like nothing had happened, I said, “Thanks for your attention––let’s talk about love poems.” I never used that stunt again. After all, should a real emergency occur, it would be better if students call 911 rather than post my motionless body on YouTube. I’ve thought this through. Most teachers use silencing methods, such as flicking the lights; ringing a call bell—see Teacher Tipster’s charming video; raising two fingers; saying “Attention, class”; or using Harry Wong’s Give Me 5––a command for students to: Focus their eyes on the speaker, Be quiet, Be still, Empty their hands, and Listen. There’s also the “three fingers” version, which stands for stop, look, and listen. Below you’ll find a collections of lesser known techniques for all grade levels.
Quieting High School Students. Edutopia. ABC/UBI - Probability Equation, Terry Scott, Ph.D.
Rob Plevin. How much time do you spend shushing twenty-four children while one child speaks? | What Ed Said. Do you find yourself frequently shushing twenty-four children while one child speaks? It is true that children need to learn to listen as well as talk. It is true that patience is a virtue. It is true that we need to teach our children to be polite and wait their turn. It is true that sometimes (but not always!) It’s worth everyone listening to what one person says.
But… Have you added up the number of minutes in a day, a week, a year, that all except one child in your class are passively waiting their turn, while one child at a time (or the teacher!) Have you considered the possibility that every idea does not have to go via the teacher? Instead of every child getting a turn to share their idea while the whole class listens, would any of the following work? Benefits: #1 in a series on making small changes What other ideas can you add to the list above? ** Would you like to contribute a post to the series on making small changes? Like this: Like Loading... Edutopia. The need to gain control of students is reaching new levels of desperation. An article in the Washington Post included the following: Three days a week, parents can take their misbehaving kids to A-1 Kutz in Snellville and ask for the "Benjamin Button Special," which Russell Fredrick and his team of barbers are offering -- free of charge -- to parents who want to try a novel form of discipline.
The cut involves shaving hair off the child's crown until he begins to resemble a balding senior citizen, inviting that unique brand of adolescent humiliation that can only come from teasing classmates and unwanted attention. Humiliation Is Never OK My opinion about any form of humiliating students is obvious from the title of the book I co-authored in 2008: Discipline With Dignity. Last month, however, I was guilty of humiliating a student seriously enough for her to later tell me that it had been the worst moment of her college life.
Prevention and Repair. Edutopia. Tips, Advice, and Strategies Classroom-Management: Important Big-Picture Questions: Before getting into the minutiae, consider how you organize your space, what learning looks like, and how you're building relationships with families. (Edutopia, 2015) 5 Quick Classroom-Management Tips for Novice Teachers: Discover five straightforward classroom-management strategies that you can use immediately. (Edutopia, 2015) 19 Big and Small Classroom Management Strategies: Read about a few big strategies to keep in mind, and explore over a dozen quick interventions that can help keep students focused on learning. (Edutopia, 2016) 5 Tips for Making Group Work Manageable: Encourage small-group effectiveness by clarifying the task, focusing on production, modeling successful behavior, monitoring progress, time, and noise, and building community.
For additional grade-specific guidance, here are resources for primary, middle, and secondary teachers. Specific Tips for the Primary Grades Back to Top. Edutopia. While taking teacher preparation courses, I was lucky enough to sign up for a class with Dr. Sharroky Hollie, who is the author of the book, Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning. The course was on classroom management, specifically for new teachers working in urban public schools. There are several things that really stuck with me from the class, and they have stayed with me all these years. For one, Dr. Hollie brought in a community member to talk to us about gangs and the history of gangs in Los Angeles. We also learned about tagging (the messages it sends and its purposes), as well as reasons behind kids being drawn into this life.
We were taught the importance of always having an activity during those crucial first minutes of class, and for Dr. Learning The Look As for the most memorable of his lessons? Dr. He then had us practice in groups of four or five. It was a fun activity and very informative. Does It Work? To new teachers: Now is the time to practice.
School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support. From Term 1 2017, Victorian government and Catholic schools will use the new Victorian Curriculum F-10. Curriculum related information is currently being reviewed and may be subject to change. For more information on the curriculum, see:The Victorian Curriculum F–10 - VCAA Page Content School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) is an approach to assist school professionals improve social behaviour and academic outcomes. It provides guidance for adopting behaviour interventions into a single whole-school framework. The interventions are evidence based, with a focus on data-based decision making and preventing serious behavioural issues.
The Victorian Government has made a $5.9 million investment in infrastructure to support SWPBS across the state. Introduction to School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support SWPBS in your school If you’re interested in talking about how SWPBS might look at your school, or if you’ve already started implementation and would like some support, please contact: Videos. Edutopia. How Restorative Justice Helps Students Learn. Restorative justice (RJ) offers healthy alternatives to the traditional disciplinary approach of rules and the consequences of breaking those rules. RJ practices such as peer conflict resolution circles, reflection sheets that guide conversations with a teacher or administrator, and mediated student-student or student-adult conversations are practices that allow students and communities to feel safe and successful together.
While traditional rules-and-consequences discipline is sometimes effective in stopping detrimental behaviors, it may have negative effects on the long-term resilience and connection within the community. It’s worth considering the impact that such discipline has on our nervous systems, on the relationships within our schools, and on students’ identity and self-esteem, and what RJ has to offer as an alternative. The Nervous System and Our Sense of Connection Applied in various ways, RJ practices always ask all parties involved: What happened? What harm was caused? Edutopia. With our most difficult students, the current way schools try to discipline students does not change their behavior, and often it escalates the problems. Discipline, unlike punishment, is proactive and begins before there are problems. It means seeing conflict as an opportunity to problem solve. Discipline provides guidance, focuses on prevention, enhances communication, models respect, and embraces natural consequences.
It teaches fairness, responsibility, life skills, and problem solving. There are times when students need to be removed from the classroom and school for aggressive, volatile actions, but upon re-entry we should make a plan of action that begins to address these actions in these brain-aligned ways. The neurobiological changes caused by chronic negative experiences and a history of adversity can trigger a fear response in the brain.
As Pam Leo says, “A hurtful child is a hurt-filled child. Young people with ACEs have brains that are in a constant state of alarm. Using Dialogue Circles to Support Classroom Management. Debates about exam grades and retaking tests tend to coalesce, eventually, around the same arguments. One faction prioritizes subject mastery, the idea that it’s more important to continue to move students toward knowledge than to punish them with a bad grade. The other side emphasizes personal responsibility, insisting that there are very few second chances in life, and that regular opportunities to retake tests simply teach kids that consequences are negotiable. But in a recent Facebook and Twitter poll about whether our teachers allow makeup tests, the discussion took a more practical turn.
Most teachers agreed that retesting was sometimes appropriate, but expressed concerned about setting clear limits around the practice. A widespread problem: When given the option of retests, students often gamed the system, failing the initial exam to see what it looked like—and then simply regurgitating the correct answers later. Classroom Management Strategies - Consequences as an effective classroom management strategy. Fostering Belonging With Classroom Norms. Enacting respectful behaviour policies. Hello, thank you for downloading this podcast from Teacher – I’m Rebecca Vukovic. In this episode of our Behaviour Management podcast series we speak to Associate Professor Anna Sullivan from the University of South Australia.
Since 2011, she’s been working on the Behaviour at School Study, which explores the existing state of student behaviour in South Australian schools. To date, two reports have been published, which detail the findings of the initial stages of the project. The second stage findings have resulted in a framework for developing and enacting humane behaviour policies and practices in schools. In today’s interview, we talk more about what it means to enact respectful, school-wide behaviour policies and the role of school leaders in doing so. But to kick things off, Anna gives listeners a brief overview of what this whole study is about. Anna Sullivan: We wanted to investigate what’s going on in schools, around basically school discipline and behaviour. References Ball, S. 8 Proactive Classroom Management Tips for New Teachers. In the 1950s, psychologists Jacob Kounin and Paul Gump discovered a curious side effect of discipline: If a student was being disruptive and the teacher responded with strict disciplinary measures, the student might stop—but other students would start exhibiting the same misbehavior.
Kounin and Gump called this the “ripple effect,” and it demonstrated that efforts to control a classroom can backfire. “The teacher who is interested in controlling ripple effects can generally do so best by giving clear instructions to the child rather than by exerting pressure on him,” Kounin and Gump wrote. Decades later, classroom management is still a thorny issue for teachers. Nearly half of new teachers report that they feel “not at all prepared” or “only somewhat prepared” to handle disruptive students, in part because the average teacher training program devotes just eight hours to the topic, according to a 2014 report from the National Council on Teacher Quality. 1. Video 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Managing Challenging Behaviors - The Pathway 2 Success. Behaviourmgmt. Behaviour Management Episode 5: Planning for positive behaviour. This podcast from Teacher magazine is supported by EnhanceTV.
EnhanceTV streams thousands of movies, documentaries and clips aligned to the curriculum. EnhanceTV is a not-for-profit and provides affordable screen resources from the world’s best producers. School trials are free in Term 1 so visit www.enhancetv.com.au/trial Hello and thank you for downloading this Behaviour Management podcast from Teacher magazine.
I’m Rebecca Vukovic. My guest today is Dr Jeff Thomas, a lecturer in the Master of Teaching and Graduate Certificate of Education at the University of Tasmania. With the start of the school year fast approaching here in Australia, many teachers will be busy preparing for those first, initial weeks in the classroom. Jeff Thomas: Yeah thanks Rebecca. Rebecca Vukovic: Fantastic. JT: Yeah great question. Additionally, and again I know that all the teachers listening to this will know the importance of learning names. And then planning for that first day as well. JT: A lot. Self-regulated learning and wellbeing. Having clear strategies that promote appropriate school behaviours and prioritise student wellbeing are important for maintaining positive and caring relationships between staff, students and parents.
Toward the end of 2018, the Australian Student Wellbeing Framework was introduced to replace the National Safe Schools Framework. The vision of the framework is to build a shared understanding of how to support student learning, safety and wellbeing. The new framework sets out principles for effective practice and emphasises the roles that students play as active participants in their own learning.
Furthermore, underpinning the Australian Student Wellbeing Framework, and specifically the principle of Support, is the presumption that wellbeing and learning are inseparable. This principle talks about developing an understanding of wellbeing and positive behaviour and how this supports effective teaching and learning. What is self-regulated learning? Teaching for self-regulated learning Table 1.
Best Evidence-based Practices for Behavioral Support (George Sugai, Ph.D.) The Absence of Punishment in Our Schools | ACEsConnection. Where to begin... My heart is full of hope and joy as I watch the trauma-informed schools movement swell across our nation and planet. The science of ACEs is mind-bending to say the least and we are now able to open up a much deeper dialogue about human behavior and health. Ultimately this work is about healing… All. Of. Us. A new consciousness is taking root around ending the “us vs them” construct.
Trauma-Informed is a Love-Based Science. The other thing I have learned is that this movement is less about the kids in our schools and more about the adults. I work in a couple of different communities with the science of ACEs and Resilience. I have worked with multiple districts in the state of Kansas and beyond and nearly always get to a level of 75 to 80% staff buy-in to move forward with changing practices. Punishment vs Discipline So let’s unpack this here today. Critical stop #1 on the Trauma-Informed Journey: Punishment After all, it is all about choices... Podcast: Teacher praise and reprimands. How to use restorative justice in your classroom and school - Monash Education. Edutopia. Podcast: Effective classroom management. The Research Files Episode 42: Playfulness and class clown behaviour.
Behaviour Management Episode 1: Dr Bill Rogers on starting the new year. Step Away From the Stickers - Self-Reg with Dr. Stuart Shanker. 14 Videos for Starting Dialogue on Rethinking Rewards, Awards. Behaviour Management Episode 2: Phil Beadle on de-escalation techniques. The Research Files Episode 29: Student self-regulation skills. The Research Files Episode 27: Improve learning and behaviour by engaging students. The Research Files Episode 22: Positive relationships and classroom behaviour. Student Behaviour Support Plan.