Building a Culture of Achievement: Classroom Management

1. Building a Culture of Achievement: Classroom Management Presented by: Andrea Aldrich, Dan Chisholm, Traci Cormier, Ashley Hamilton, and Chris Matheson

2. Our Agenda • Goals • Takeaways • Self Management • 1st Grade Perspective—Mrs. Hart • 4th Grade Perspective—Mr. Chisholm • IAF Student—Miss Ashley Hamilton • IAF Director—Ms. Traci Cormier • Conclusion and Questions

3. Goals for today • Create a sense of team • Learn from one another • Add to your toolbox “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ---Aristotle

4. Key Takeaways • Manage yourself, manage your classroom • Redirect with respect • Effective classroom management is a choice • Learn outside the box • Relationships are everything “The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.” ---Tyron Edwards

5. Self-Management • Lesson Plans • Procedures • Classroom • Manage Yourself “The first and best victory is to conquer self.” ---Plato

6. Self-Management: Lesson Plans • Two weeks ahead of the class • Engaging and entertaining • Differentiated • “If he is not excited to teach it, how am I supposed to be excited to learn it?”—IAF Student “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Self-Management: Procedures • Have a plan for everything • Teach • Practice • Communicate • Perform periodic post-mortems “It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.” --Clint Eastwood

8. Self-Management: Classroom • Everything on purpose • Classroom procedures • Supply bucket/area • Reflection corner/area “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.” ---Goethe

9. Self-Management: Manage Yourself • Your triggers • Your expectations • Your consistency “Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.” ---Louis Binstock

10. 1st Grade Perspective: Mrs. Andrea Hart • Bell work • Policies and procedures • Attention getters • Creating a sense of urgency • Priorities “A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” ---Horace Mann

11. 4th Grade Perspective: Mr. Dan Chisholm • The importance of relationships • Communication • Work the room • Management as a learned set of behaviors “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” ---Carol Buchner

12. A Student’s Point of View: Miss Ashley Hamilton • Kindergarten • 5th Grade • High School “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible—and achieve it generation after generation.” ---Pearl S. Buck

13. A Director’s Perspective: Ms. Traci Cormier • The first year at IAF • Characteristics of a good classroom manager

14. Conclusion and Questions • Key takeaways • Your shared vision for AIA • Follow the process “The secret of success is constancy of purpose.” ---Benjamin Disraeli