...In a classroom setting, discipline and management are two key components for classroom success. The term classroom management is often used interchangeably with the term classroom discipline. However, the two ideas are very different in their application. Management and discipline are two halves of the same coin, they are intrinsicly connected to each other, but they have their own individual properties, with their own look and feel. Classroom management deals with how things in a class are done. Classroom management is the sole responsibility of the teacher. It encompasses all of the teacher’s interactions with students, classroom environment, rules and procedures, instructional strategies and development of engaging work. In a well managed classroom, the teacher implements policies and develops routines that stabilize and direct the flow of a class. Effective teachers manage their classes so that students spend their time more productively. Elements of classroom management vary. No two classes are alike. However the foundational elements a teacher takes into account before students ever set foot in the build can lend to better classroom management. Things such as classroom layout and organization.A neat and organized classroom tells your students you mean business and you expect them to keep the classroom organized as well. Deciding how to divide up classroom time is another important aspect to classroom management.Lunch, recess, breaks, down-time between lessons and activities...
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...Running head: WHAT THE BRAIN IS ABLE TO DO? Brain Concentration Brittany Mangum Chemistry 2nd period 9-30-12 Abstract It's important to understand the complexity of the human brain. The human brain weighs only three pounds but is estimated to have about 100 billion cells. The brain is divided in half, a right and left hemisphere. The right hemisphere deals more with visual activities and plays a role in putting things together. The left hemisphere tends to be the more analytical part; it analyzes information collected by the right. Within my research paper I will be discussing the ability to concentrate and what part of the brain you use to concentrate. Brain Concentration 1. How does the brain allow us to concentrate? Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have discovered a mechanism that the brain uses to filter out distracting thoughts to focus on a single bit of information. Their results are reported in 19 November issue of Nature. ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2009) Colgin and her colleagues measured brain waves in rats, in three different parts of the hippocampus, which is a key memory center in the brain. 2. What are some factors known to affect concentration? Not getting enough rest is the biggest factor affecting concentration; if you aren’t well rested your mind will be confused. Avoid this by making sure you get the...
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...Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related Cynthia Shilcosky Grand Canyon University: EDU 535TE 07/27/2015 Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related Classroom management and discipline are terms that are very often used interchangeably in the education field. However, there are clear distinctions between the two and it is important for educators to be aware of these differences. Classroom management is the teacher’s responsibility and refers to how things are done. Discipline is the responsibility of both the teacher and student and can best be simply described as how people behave. A further, more in depth look at these terms and how they should be applied to a classroom setting follows. Classroom Management Classroom management begins before the students even step into the school at the beginning of the school year. Each teacher is challenged to create their own system of classroom management which encompasses many things. The personality of the teacher will strongly determine the types of classroom management they will use (Bullock, Coplan, & Bosacki, 2015). Classroom management requires procedures to be in place, plans to be prepared, organization of the classroom and materials, and structure (Ediger, 2013). Establishing procedures is the first major aspect of classroom management. This involves setting up routines for the students that will take place on a regular basis. As my students walk into my second grade classroom each morning, they know...
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...Discipline and Management Comparison Grand Canyon University EDU 536 – Encouraging Academic Success through Classroom Management August 4, 2013 There are many different variations from many different publications that attempt to define discipline and management, as well as behavior and misbehavior and many experts have discussed how each should be defined and compared. There have been many books published on the subject of classroom discipline (Butchart, 1995). Charles suggests in the text, Building Classroom Discipline, many different strategies that can be used in the classroom regarding discipline (Charles, 2011). The dictionary Merriam-Webster defines discipline as punishment or control gained by enforcing obedience or order. Many different experts weigh in on how classroom discipline factors in with classroom management. Classroom management and discipline seem to work together in each being a key component of each other. According to the text, a teacher must find a system of discipline that works for their classroom. The text also suggests that discipline has 3 goals, productive learning environments are established, students become more responsible, and it promotes overall civility of the total class (Charles, 2011). And that discipline approach should be organized to fit your students needs for your particular classroom. This discipline approach should allow for effective management of the classroom, thus preventing wasted...
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...head: DISCIPLINE AND MANAGE 1 Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related Bilbo Baggins Grand Canyon University EDU-536 February 5, 2014 DISCIPLINE AND MANAGE 2 Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related Learning how to manage your classroom and discipline your students is essential in being a good teacher. In order for us to fully understand the importance of both, we must explore what they signify as well as what behavior and misbehavior mean. We will discover their meanings, their likenesses, and how they are distinct. We will also explore how they correlate to one another. An effective teacher creates and maintains orderliness in their classroom. By using proactive procedures of communication, behaviors can often be changed. Discipline means to teach self-control. Management is the act of taking charge or taking care of something. Behavior is the act of how one behaves. Misbehavior is being inappropriately, or acting as one should not. Discipline: DISCIPLINE AND MANAGE 3 Management: Behavior: DISCIPLINE AND MANAGE 4 Misbehavior: Classroom management and classroom discipline share a connection with each other. They are distinctly separate but without them both a teacher will struggle in a classroom full...
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...University – EDU 536 June 25, 2014 Classroom discipline, management, misbehavior, behavior are four different terms that impact each other significantly. Classroom management deals with how things are done. Discipline deals with how people behave. Behavior is a response of an individual or group to an action, environment, person, or stimulus. Misbehavior means when you do something wrong or bad. In order to describe each picture word is sort of difficult because are all related. Let’s try to visualize a math class. Every student knows they have to come to school every day to learn. The children enter the classroom, sit down and start working with the problem of the day. Some student’s are occupied and focusing in their work this is called classroom management. There is a group of students working immediately with their work and focusing in what they have to do, this is called good behavior. Students that are loud and trying to catch other student’s attention instead of working are called misbehaving. Students that obey the rules in a classroom is called having discipline. Students should be discipline according to the rules established by the teacher and should be able to know what the consequences are when they break these rules. Classroom management, discipline, behavior and misbehavior are similar but different and they each connect in a certain way. Discipline and classroom management are two different concepts. The meaning of Discipline is how an educator manages the ways...
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...Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related EDU – 536 Classroom Engagement and Management Grand Canyon University By: Emanuel Brown II March 7, 2012 Brown 1 In our classrooms everyday we stand in front of a group of students from all different walks of life. But for eight hours a day they are all in the same room for the same purpose. Well what are we there for? We are there to teach them to make them ready for the world after 12 years of school. In order to do this in an orderly manner, we must first establish good classroom management, and in my opinion if we can establish good and effective classroom management then there will be little or no discipline problems. If we as teachers let our students know what is expected of them, then they will be more prone to respond to our teaching in a positive way and gain everything they need. First of all, how we will define the word discipline? The word discipline has many different meanings, but they all serve the same general idea and purpose. For starters we will define discipline as a system of rules or conduct, or a type of correction. It can also be defines as a system of rules, or to punish or criticize, as you see they all have the same general idea. (http://www.definitions.net/definition/discipline. Secondly, we will define the word management...
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...EDU 450: Classroom Engagement and Management Grand Canyon University | Discipline and Management | Different yet Related | Keren E Shafer 12/20/2013 | Discipline and Management Getting students of any age to behave the way you would like them to and or do, as you would like is not always the easiest task. Yet every day in classrooms across the world educator's are faced with these challenges because like it or not kids are going to act up in class. Knowing these daily challenges will cause almost every educator to think about and consider how they will carry out both classroom management and discipline with their students. While these two items are similar, they certainly are not the same, or are they? Moreover, why do we need them in our classrooms? Classroom Management and Discipline, although they may seem similar and do go hand in hand in the classroom, most might agree they are not the same. Classroom Management is typically a teachers plan to obtain and keep order in their classroom while engaging their students in active learning. Knowing this information many if not all teachers will take the necessary steps to not only creating a good classroom management plan but they will try and communicate this plan with their students so that the students know what is expected of them while they are in school. Teachers realize these plans are not only necessary but their best attempt to detour and possibly even prevent the behaviors...
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...Running Head: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISCIPLINE, MANAGEMENT, BEHAVIOR AND MISBEHAVIOR Relationship between Discipline, Management, Behavior and Misbehavior LaRissa Newman EDU 450 July 20, 2013 Professor Hesch-Grover Management, discipline, behavior, and misbehavior are four words that have an impact on each of the others. The four ideas share some similarities as well as differences. First we will define each word, then make comparisons and last describe how these terms all relate to each other and education. In terms of education within a school or classroom, discipline helps to manage behaviors; to train by instruction and practice, especially to teach self-control to students. Discipline refers to the approaches and strategies used by teachers to guide and promote constructive student behavior. Classroom management can be described as what the teacher establishes as procedures and rules. These procedures and rules create order and provide a sense of safety for students. In the simplest words, as applied to teaching, it involves any and everything a teacher must do to carry out teaching objectives. Specific but flexible skills, instructional methods and knowledge are implemented to promote optimal learning. Behavior relates to actions by the student, typically a positive action, while misbehavior is a negative action. Both relate to classroom management and discipline directly. Similarities and differences Management is proactive and could be seen as the...
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...Running head: Discipline and Management Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related Grand Canyon University: EDU-450 March2012 Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related One of the most important things that a teacher can do to be effective is to manage his or her classroom. Educators must learn how to manage their classrooms and how to discipline the students. Teachers must know the definitions of discipline, management, behavior and misbehavior in order to know how to identify and handle different discipline and behavior problems in the correct way. A teacher must have a well-managed classroom in order to teach students effectively. Discipline is defined as the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control. (A.U, 2012). On the first day of class the teacher needs to establish the rules, and have order in their classroom. Then the instructor should maintain the order in the classroom during all times. Classroom management has to do with procedures, routines, and structure (Marshall, 2010). The teacher should create a plan for managing the classroom. Managing the classroom requires teachers to create a routine of how they give instruction, how they switch from one lesson to the next, and how they handle discipline problems. Teachers should also discipline the students who do not follow the rules so that it would create a safe learning environment for the students as well as him or her self when the classroom is managed effectively...
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...Philosophy of Classroom Engagement and Management Assingment Michael Santana Grand Canyon University: EDU 536 4/22/2015 My Philosophy for classroom engagement and management revolves around student interaction and establishing a strong curriculum that helps student’s grow in knowledge. In addition, rules of the classroom will be laid out early and apply to everyone in the classroom. The expectations of the classroom will be labeled and displayed where all students and teachers can see. The teacher as a facilitator is very important. The teacher is responsible for the overall atmosphere of the class and is the key contributor and monitor for classroom discussions. It is the teacher’s role to bring discussions back on topic when they digress as well as offer stimulating discussion topics when none are presented. The teacher should encourage participation and always remain positive in regards to feedback (Jones, F., 1987). The teacher should be able to receive constructive criticism and use it to continually change to better facilitate learning. Overall facilitation relies on a set of skills and knowledge that can be used to encourage individuals to come together to complete work (Thomas, G. 2004). The teacher should instill an incentive system to teach students about cooperation that gives the student’s time during the class to partake in learning games that are fun and active but still gives adequate instruction. In addition, using omission techniques for those...
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...Student Diversity and Classroom Management Grand Canyon University- EDU 450 October 20, 2013 In today’s classrooms teachers have a lot of diversity to deal with while trying to teach. When it comes to diversity in the class it varies from cultural, mental socio-economic, physical differences. Educators today have to be able to meet all the needs of the students within the class. Teachers need to have knowledge of all the different types of diversity. All of the diversities within the classroom can present several challenges upon the teacher when it comes to discipline. When it comes to maintaining order in the classroom it can be a difficult thing for new teachers it they do not have a lot of assistants. Over the years students have become defiant and teachers are unprepared to deal with the issues. If teachers do not have control of the classroom it can lead to poor classroom management. This paper will discuss five classroom management strategies that will promote critical thinking and gain the students attention within the classroom. The five strategies will include Canter’s Behavior Management Cycle, Win-Win Discipline, Kounin’s Lesson Management, B. F. Skinner’s Discipline through Shaping Behavior and William Glasser’s Discipline Guide by Choice. Using the Canter’s Behavior Management Cycle in the class can help teachers keep the class in order and control. The Canters can be an assertive discipline approach when it comes to teachers using this management...
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...experience of a classroom. In the Win-Win Discipline approach they broke disruptive behaviors into four areas aggression, breaking rules, confrontations, and disengagement (Charles and Senter). Behavior is not the only factor in distractions in a classroom there can also be classroom conditions that affect the classroom. Reflecting on my own experience and that of other teachers there were ten things that seemed to be the most encountered interruptions to classroom learning. While looking at the disruptions in the classroom from a teacher perspective, the most common disruptions were talking without permission or out of turn, and making noises. When examining the Win-Win and Real discipline, and Pragmatic Classroom I feel that you would examine why the student would be talking or making noises and then guide the student back to the appropriate behavior, and remind the students that the behavior is not part of the expectations that were established. On most occasions the reminder of expectations especially when cooperatively made with the teacher and the students would be enough to correct the behavior and also provide a teaching moment for the whole class by rehearsing the appropriate behavior together. Providing a preventative plan for the behavior by having a free taking time within a lesson or class would also help with these behaviors depending on the class dynamic. The next behavior was being out of their seat and wandering about the classroom. With Real Discipline you would...
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...Running head: Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related Discipline and Management: Different Yet Related Angela Williams EDU August 15th, 2012 For many years I associated discipline with whooping or punishment. When I heard of someone being disciplined by their parents, I always thought they had gotten a spanking. Later, I soon learned that when you discipline someone you help to guide them in the right direction, you steer them from the wrong they’ve done. For instance, I disciplined my child just last night by taking away his iPad because he has been being mean to his teacher. When she asks him to do something, he tells her no. When he made it home yesterday I sat him down and talked to him about his behavior and I let him that it was unacceptable. He did much better today. “Discipline is based on logical and natural consequences; it is concerned with the present. Options are kept open so students can choose to improve behavior and gain self-control. Discipline is an active teaching process which involves communication. It is organized and ensures involvement of all stakeholders.” (EDU 536 Lectures) “The tactics that teachers use to manage student behavior are referred to as discipline or behavior management.” (Charles, 2008, p. 9) “Classroom management refers to all of the things that a teacher does to organize students, space, time and materials so that instruction in content and student learning can take place”...
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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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