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Creating & Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning

Creating & Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning. Humanitas Webinar 3-15-07 (Part 2). Purpose of Presentation. To review key components of creating and maintaining effective learning environments.

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Creating & Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning

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  1. Creating & Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning HumanitasWebinar 3-15-07 (Part 2)

  2. Purpose of Presentation • To review key components of creating and maintaining effective learning environments. • To support Job Corps instructors in developing classroom management techniques that increase positive student behaviors and outcomes.

  3. Why? • Without effective learning environments, • Behaviors are random and outcomes are unpredictable; • Students do not learn to take responsibility for their own behaviors, choices, and learning; • Instructors burn out quick!

  4. 3 Components - Review • Foundation • Prevention • Intervention

  5. Foundation – Review • Who We Are… • Assumptions that we make • Do we use “inner authority” or “inner apology”? • Are we modeling behaviors that we want our students to emulate? • How are we designing learning opportunities that include every student?

  6. Prevention - Review • What are we doing proactively to prevent unwanted behaviors? • Do we understand the difference between rules and procedures and how they are used to shape behaviors? • Do we have consistent rules, and are all students “bought in”? • Do we have procedures that set students up for success and eliminate all that intervention time?

  7. Prevention - Review • What is the importance of building rapport? • Besides rules, procedures and rapport, what else contributes to prevention? • We call it “Withitness” • “Withitness” in this sense, does not really mean being a “cool” teacher…

  8. Focusing on Prevention  Success

  9. Rapport Show Enthusiasm Be Available Be Non-judgmental

  10. “Withitness” • Are you constantly aware of what is going on in your classroom? • Eye Contact • Room Dividers • Instructional Aids • Unobstructed Passageways • Student Traffic • Student Space • Student Access to Materials • Seating Arrangements • Other Distractions (http://web.utk.edu/~mccay/apdm/classmgt/classmgt_b.htm) http://serc.carleton.edu/images/cismi/broadaccess/australia_lab_group.jpg

  11. “Withitness”…You tell us: • Name some ways that “withitness” can help build a productive environment. • What are some other traits of “withitness” that you have witnessed that are effective? • What are some common errors that you see? • How might “withitness” be different in varied environments? Academics? Trades? WB-L?

  12. Prevention = • What we do proactively • Rules & Procedures • Rapport • Withitness

  13. Intervention = • What we do in response to behaviors and events.

  14. Intervention • What events or behaviorspush your buttons? • What do you do? • How is that working for you? • What is the difference between responding and reacting? • Do you believe that the way you react/respond actually predicts the outcome?

  15. Intervention • Question:What is the purpose of intervention? • Answer:Tohelp your student modify his/her behavior while maintaining the integrity of the class.

  16. Intervention • Question: Why do students misbehave?

  17. Behavior is Communication • “Developing” social skills; • For avoidance of failure; • For power & revenge; • For attention-seeking

  18. Intervention Technique: Event + Response = Outcome E + R = O

  19. E + R = O When using this technique, ask : • What is the desired OUTCOMEfor each event? • What would be appropriate RESPONSES to obtain these outcomes?

  20. Let’s try it… E+R=O • Think of a misbehavior or event that requires your intervention… • Ask yourself, “What is the desiredoutcome?” • Plan yourresponse.

  21. Intervention Techniques Goals of Misbehavior • For Avoidance-of-FailureBehavior • “Leave Me Alone” • For Power & Revenge Behavior • “Let’s Fight/You Can’t Make Me/I’ll get even” • For Attention-Seeking Behavior • “Look at Me”

  22. Intervention Techniques http://www.pbismaryland.org/SummerInstitute2006/Presentations/ShaunaKing~CooperativeDiscipline.ppt#272,21,Intervention and Prevention Strategies

  23. The 411 on the 911 • Know your students (KYS) and cultures. • 1st priority in altercation: Separate students; • 2nd priority: Get help! • Know JC emergency numbers and procedures.

  24. The Heart of the Matter I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized. ~Haim Ginott

  25. Next Webinar • Date: TBA • Time: TBA • Topic: Classroom Strategies

  26. Resources • Job Corps Learning Disabilities Website http://jccdrc.jobcorps.gov/ld • Job Corps Disability Website http://jcdisability.jobcorps.gov/index.htm • Diane Fairchild, National Director of Student Services, SIATech fairchilddi@siatech.org • Kim Jones, Disability Coordinator, Humanitas kim.jones@humanitas.com

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