Classroom management for the 21 st Century Scholarship and certificate programme Workshop 4

1. Classroom management for the 21st Century Scholarship and certificate programme Workshop 4

2. Agenda for today: • Introduction to Mental Set • Understanding misbehaviour • Rewards and sanctions • Writing a behaviour policy • Tackling lateness and poor attendance

3. Mental Set: ‘A heightened sense of situational awareness and a conscious control over one’s thoughts and behaviourrelative to that situation” Marzano et al (2003)

4. Mental Set Withitness: Being aware of what is happening in all parts of the classroom at all times. (Brophy, 1996) Emotional objectivity: Implementing and enforcing rules, procedures and disciplinary measures, and cultivating effective relationships without interpreting any misbehaviour as a personal attack. (Marzano, 2003)

5. With-it teachers: • Monitor their classrooms regularly • Position themselves so they can see all students all the time • Continuously scan the room to keep track of what’s going on • Let their students know they are ‘with it’ • Catch problems before they become disruptive • Accurately target the correct students when they do have to intervene to stop misbehaviour • In the event that they have not seen who caused the disruption, firmly address the whole group with a warning instead of singling out the wrong individual

6. Emotionally objective teachers: • Address disciplinary issues in an unemotional, matter-of-fact manner • Are realistic in their attitudes towards students and teacher-student relationships • Like the children they teach but view them professionally as young learners

7. Understanding misbehaviour • The work is too easy • The work is too difficult • You are boring them! • They are tired/hungry/thirsty/too hot • They are pre-occupied by other problems • Have trouble with self-control • They are seeking attention • They are testing your boundaries

8. Rewards and sanctions What do you do in your school?

9. School behaviour policy: purpose • The aim of a behaviour policy is: • To adopt a consistent and positive approach to the management of students’ behaviour • To establish clear boundaries so students know what is expected of them

10. School behaviour policy: purpose • Or… • To enable teachers to teach, not to constrict them • To enable learners to learn, not to oppress them • To achieve an atmosphere of structure, order and calm where learning is possible • (Tom Bennett, Behaviour Specialist)

11. School behaviour policy: content • Expectations of pupils, staff and parents in upholding acceptable behaviour standards • Reward system • Support structures for students causing concern • Procedure for dealing with unacceptable behaviour • Sanctions • (Tom Bennett, Behaviour Specialist)

12. Tackling lateness and poor attendance • Three issues to consider: • Attendance at school • Punctuality arriving at school • Punctuality to lessons

13. Improving poor attendance: • Do your students recognise school as a place where they belong and are valued? • Do they understand what it is they are trying to achieve by coming to school? • Are your students able to access the curriculum and become engaged in their learning? • Do parents recognise the importance of daily attendance at school?

14. Improving punctuality to school: • Implement a graduated response to punctuality arriving at school • If lateness is more than a few minutes, parents should be informed

15. Improving punctuality to lessons: • Judge lateness fairly and consistently • Judge the student’s attitude as they enter the class • Deal with it immediately • Don’t allow lateness to interrupt the flow of your lesson • Require a decent explanation • Have a graduated response