...Classroom Behavior Management Strategies and Techniques for the Most Difficult to Manage Students Willie Butler ED X997 Dr. Spencer Walton October 24, 2005 I have a student that is Autistic and I will call him James for the sake of this paper. With the Autistic disability comes some challenging behavior such as impulsive screaming or yelling and hitting. I am a new teacher to this unit and James is a new student to the unit and Middle school, and before I had the opportunity to meet James I had heard that he barked, hits and most of the time he’s out of control. I began to think about what Alderman (2005) said “Dealing with difficult to manage students and classrooms continues to be a hallmark issue in every school in our nation” (p.3). Whether the behavior is caused because of a disability or not, it does not matter. Before I had met this kid I had made some assumptions about him and had made a partial assessment of his behavior from the things I had heard about him whether they were good, bad or indifferent and from some of the things I already knew about Autistic students. The next thing I did was I went to the files and located his folder and began to read and take notes from his records and I immediately noticed that James had stayed in the same grade (5th grade) for three years, so I visited his former teacher and my question to that teacher was why did James stay in your classroom for three years, oh I failed to mention that James is currently...
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...A Case Study of Disruptive Behavior in The Classroom 1 A Case Study of Disruptive Behavior in The Classroom Grand Canyon University-EDU536 Peggy Mosley 05/01/13 A Case Study of Disruptive Behavior in The Classroom 2 Both parents worked long hours, Tammy's father is a pie and cookie chef at the locate bread factory, he leaves for work at 5:00 a.m. and gets home by 3:00 in the evening. Her mother works at the mall as a sales manager at one of the clothing stores. Tammy's mom sees all the children off to school before she has to be at work, she works 10:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. at night. She is usually home to say good-night to the children. There are five children in the family: Richard is 6 years old and in the first grade, Barbara is 9 years old and in the fourth grade, Allen is16 years old and a 10th grader, Diana is a 14 year old 8th grader who has a learning-disability. A disorder in the basic psychological processes involving understanding or the use of language, which the disorder may reveal itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell,...
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...process but also academic achievement (Sun & Shek, 2012), many school teachers believed that disruptive behavior is one of the biggest (Demir, 2009; Pane, 2010) and most exhausting (Wang, Hall, & Rahimi, 2015) problems in the classroom. This essay is to discuss two approaches to deal with disruptive behaviors in the classroom that are preventing misbehaviors before they happen and using a continuum in dealing with such behaviors. In the past, teachers were believed to have the responsibility to maintain order and discipline and to stop any improper behavior in the classroom (Doyle, 1990).Thus classroom management could be depicted as installation...
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...Disruptive Behavior 1: I’ve experienced students who disagreed with everything being said. If I said the sky was blue, they would have challenged the statement. It was difficult to keep the class focused on the topic and difficult to keep the student focused. I addressed the behavior by asking the class to remain focused on the details we were covering. I also spoke to the student about focus and collaboration. I tried to teach the student how to ask questions without being disruptive. After the conversation, the student challenged less and seemed to consider their approach to questions. It was a pleasant interaction. I’m still unsure what the cause of this student’s behavior. It could have been a simple lack of social skills, dislike for the topic, dislike for me, or external factors related to physical or mental health. I have been in situations where I disliked the course concepts or did not really enjoy the instructor. In those cases, I asked direct questions or went searching for information independently. I never wanted to get in the way of another student’s learning process, so I avoided being rude or questioning every little thing. It can be easy to start questioning everything when you’re frustrated....
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...Negative Classroom Conditions and Behavior Grand Canyon University: EDU- 536 July 3, 2013 Negative Classroom Conditions and Behaviors There are many conditions and behavior that can be present in the classroom, both positive and negative. These conditions and behaviors can have a dramatic impact on the learning process, students, and teachers if not controlled properly. They also have a great impact on classroom management. How well you manage your classroom will reflect on the behavior of the student. I had the pleasure of interviewing my ex 6th grade teacher for this assignment. I asked her what were the 10 negative classroom conditions and/or disruptive behaviors that influenced her teaching environment. She explained to me how the behaviors vary depending on the grade level (Bell 2013). She provided me with details of what she sees in a high school setting. Charles also gives us the 10 examples of classroom conditions and/or disruptive behaviors in our textbook. The 10 are; unmet needs, expediency, thwarted desires, lack of school/class resources, temptation, inappropriate habits, poor behavior choice, avoidance, egocentric personality, and the inability for students to learn properly. A disruptive behavior that Mrs. Bell pointed out was the inability for students to learn properly when a misbehaved student is present. She explained how some behavior could be tolerated but some disruptive behaviors go beyond rudeness. A student who monopolizes discussion or speaks...
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...narrow classrooms composed of a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 60 pupils per class, but its nature is much more difficult backbreaking responsibility to do than other obligations of the teacher and in this situation she should be able to bridge the between discipline and pupils behaviours. Militant, disobedient, socially inadequate and withdrawn behaviours of pupils are disruptions of class and establish a set of problems to public school teachers. As a teachers they claim it a great burden to deal with in their daily lives. Most teachers are claiming that their effort do not to effectively handle disruptive pupils. With fifty or more pupils in the classroom per section, almost one half of the members of the lower sections are disruptive. These behaviour pupils constantly disrupt classroom situations. Behaviour control is important. Success in teaching is often directly proportional to a teachers ability to use appropriate disciplinary measures. Teachers play a vital role in the total development of the child’s values. He is the key figure in the success or failure on the childs behaviour enhancement. It should be borne in mind that the ability of the teacher toimpose discipline in the classroom is an important factor inthelearning – teaching situations. Teachers ability is disciplining the pupils is indeed vast andthe challenge for him is great. As a teacher therefore, he should strive his best to maintain a classroom atmosphere...
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...Risk Factors of Behavior Summary Heather Goodenow ECE 201 11-12-12 Scientists are leaning more and more toward the view that a gene specifically "for" a disorder or condition such as antisocial behavior is very unlikely (Rutter, Moffitt, and Caspi, 2006). Human behaviors, and the brain circuits that produce them, are undoubtedly the product of intricate networks involving hundreds to thousands of genes working in concert with multiple developmental and environmental events. Because there are so many elements involved and they interact with one another in such complex ways, it is extremely difficult to disentangle the influence of genes from the influence of the environment. To tease out these different strands and estimate their relative power, behavioral geneticists use twin studies, comparing identical twins who share all their genes and fraternal twins who share about half their genes. The genetic influence on a characteristic such as intelligence, temperament, personality, cognitive style, or psychophysiology is greater when the trait is more similar in identical twins than in fraternal twins. Researchers also study adopted children to see if they are more like their biological parents with whom they share genes or their adoptive parents with whom they share the environment. These studies, which are becoming increasingly analytical and sophisticated, show that antisocial behavior is moderately heritable (Moffitt, 2005), especially antisocial behavior that begins early...
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...Teachers play various roles in a typical classroom, but surely one of the most important is that of classroom manager. Effective teaching and learning cannot take place in a poorly managed classroom. If students are disorderly and disrespectful, and no apparent rules and procedures guide behavior, chaos becomes the norm. In these situations, both teachers and students suffer. Classroom Management- Feb./March 2009 The Difference Between Discipline and Procedures Classroom management should not be equated with discipline. Discipline is a very small part of classroom management. Procedures are not found in a discipline plan; nor should a procedure be a threat, a rule, or an order. A procedure is simply a method or process for getting things done in the classroom. Procedures and routines are different from a discipline plan. Do not confuse procedures with discipline. There are two major differences. DISCIPLINE concerns how students BEHAVE. PROCEDURES concern how things ARE DONE. DISCIPLINE HAS consequences and rewards. PROCEDURES HAVE NO consequences or rewards. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT deals with how things are done. DISCIPLINE deals with how people behave. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT has to do with procedures, routines, and structure. DISCIPLINE is about impulse management and self-control. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT is the teacher's responsibility. DISCIPLINE is the student's responsibility. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT is enhanced when procedures are: 1. explained to...
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...Classroom Activities and Behaviors Classroom setup can dramatically affect students' attitudes toward learning and their habits of learning. Students need an environment that is organized, stimulating, and comfortable in order to learn effectively. One way a teacher can create this type of learning environment is by creating learning centers throughout his or her classroom along with instructional areas. Take the physical features of your classroom into account when planning out what type of learning centers you want to have in your classroom. As the year progresses, you can add different kinds of learning centers to fit your classes. When sitting up your learning centers you not only want to take in the physical features of your classroom. You also need to consider the age of your students, the number of students and the type of activities you want to be conducted. Learning centers consist of multiple stations for children to rotate through. Stations may contain activities from different subjects, such as math, science and reading, or different activities related to the same topic. Using learning centers in your classroom is a fun way for students to experience hands-on learning independently or in small groups. It also opens up possibilities for you to work with small groups or individual students. One type of learning center that is valuable for young children is a reading center. A reading center is a place for students to read independently or quietly with...
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...Plan A classroom problem prevention plan is an indispensible part of every classroom. Schoolchildren need to be in a setting that encourages respect for each individual student so that all students in the class can feel comfortable when they make missteps or mistakes. A good prevention plan sets the expectations for the school year. The emphasis of my prevention plan is on preventing problems by keeping the children actively occupied in the lessons being offered. Having a good classroom prevention plan is the cornerstone for learning, without it the students would not be able to learn. This paper is a summary of what I do in my 3rd grade classroom. Rules I begin each first day of school by directing the 3rd graders to come up with classroom rules as a team. Nevertheless, I’ve already made up the rules I want; however, I think that the students should have a sense of ownership in the workings of the classroom. It amazes me that each year the kids come up with the same rules as the previous class before them. Repeating rules are using an ‘inside voice’, raising your hand and waiting to be called on, keeping your hands and feet to yourself and using nice words. These rules are important for this grade level because it teaches respect at the most critical year for school kids. Each kid is responsible for his/her own behavior, but by help making the rules they feel obligated with enforcing them as well. I allow the students to come up with the consequence for behavior. At this...
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... In any classroom there will be positive and negative influences in it. The way at which these negative influences are handled will have a lasting effect on the students learning process. There are a vast array of theories and styles to choose from to help and control these behaviors from getting out of hand. The main point to remember is to find a strategy that works well for each individual. I will be addressing 10 possible behavior problems and how they should be approached. What could be the most important aspect of trying to keep negative influences at a minimum is the teacher’s ability to connect with the students. The teacher needs to keep the students from becoming bored in the classroom. Once a student gets to the point of boredom they can start disrupting other students and even forget assignments that are given in class due to a lack of attention. To keep boredom at a minimum The Institute of Education Sciences recommends that modifying the learning environment as well as teach and reinforce new skills to the students is a key concept (Epstein 2008). This in my opinion translates to the teacher needs to be able to recognize when a possible situation can occur and be able to change before the possible problem arises. The teacher could just offer some alternative actions to those who might become a possible disruption. Teachers sometimes tend to forget that a students need to be accepted by their peers is a strong force. Some negative behaviors could arise...
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...Classroom Management Procedure/ Routines Paper Classroom management is the most essential key to a successful learning environment in the classroom. When effective classroom management strategies are not implemented you take away learning time from your students. There are many important elements to have a productive, self- sufficient classroom. One of the most important elements is establishing procedures and routines in your class. According to Harry Wong, the teacher is the decisive element in the classroom. Therefore, it is up to the teacher to establish discipline and procedures in the classroom to have an effective classroom. The most important element of establishing discipline in your classroom is establishing a discipline plan. A discipline plan is composed of three things; rules, consequences, and rewards. The rules must only contain 3-5 rules, no more than 5. Harry Wong explains that when we begin to give too many rules it becomes a dare to the students to break them. Having a plan is very important, when a teacher does not have a plan it will resort to yelling. Harry Wong states, “ If you don’t have a plan, than you are planning to fail.” According to Harry Wong the number one problem in the classroom is not the discipline, it is the lack of procedures and routines. Establishing Procedures and routines will allow your classroom to be a productive self-sufficient classroom. Therefore, in order to have discipline in a classroom you must have procedures that...
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...Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow Research Report Number 10 Teaching in High–Tech Environments: Classroom Management Revisited First – Fourth Year Findings Judith Haymore Sandholtz, Ph.D. Cathy Ringstaff, Ph.D. David C. Dwyer, Ph.D. Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Computer, Inc. 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 acot@applelink.apple.com Introduction Since 1985, the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT)SM research project has provided teachers and students at five public school sites with individual computers for use at school and at home. Consequently, these teachers have spent more time teaching in high-tech classrooms than any other teachers in the world. Although most ACOT teachers taught for years before entering the project, the introduction of computers into their classrooms significantly altered their teaching environments. In many ways, they felt like novices again. None anticipated the range of student misbehavior, changes in the physical environment, shift in their teaching roles, and technical problems that would accompany the new technology. Nor did they anticipate how quickly they would learn to utilize the technology to their advantage in managing the classroom in areas such as grading, individualizing instruction, developing materials, and increasing motivation. While preservice teacher education typically includes training in classroom management techniques, little is known about classroom management in high-access-to-technology environments...
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... It does not address broader aspects of survey and research design, but additional resources can be found on our web site: http://www.washington.edu/oea. OEA also provides a variety of consulting and research support services; please feel free to contact us if you are interested in assistance with a research, assessment, or evaluation project (baytam@u.washington.edu, 206‐543‐5190). TIP 1: BE RELEVANT Before starting your survey, you should specify one or several over‐arching questions you wish to address (i.e., research questions or evaluation questions). Your questionnaire items should be focused around these questions. Different Domains of Questions: Behavior, Beliefs, and Evaluation Does providing optional, online practice quizzes help students learn the material in my course? Behavior Of the ten optional online practice quizzes, how many did you complete? Completing the online practice quizzes helped me learn the material in this course. How satisfied were you with the online quizzes? 0 1–2 3– 5 6–7 8– 9 10 Beliefs Strongly Disagree Extremely Dissatisfied Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree Extremely Satisfied Evaluation Somewhat Dissatisfied Somewhat Satisfied The three items above have different foci. The first could help answer your research question if you were able to correlate responses to the item with actual grades. Copyright © 2006 University of Washington Office of Educational Assessment Different...
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...parents we teach our children to be themselves no matter what others think. As babies children are placed in situations that their parents but them in most the time in the group of friends that the parents interact with. This is just the beginning of the cycle of social interaction they are either liked by these friends or not. Soon after starting school kids experience their own social influences if they like school they may not be liked by the cool kids. As children it is hard to not fit in with the cool group of kids because at that moment the only thing they think about is being in the popular crowd. This was no different for one of the little boys in the first grade at one of the local elementary schools. After observing in the classroom for an hour I went out to the playground to observe the kids playing. A little boy who was very out spoken in class was sitting on a bench alone wondering what was going on; I walked over to observe him closer. As he was sitting on the bench I noticed that he was crying still just observing I watched as this little boy cry until the teacher came to talk to him. AS they were talking the...
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