managing the teaching environment Flashcards
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The teaching environment is only a background variable.
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To βmanageβ the learning environment means to take steps to:
Maximize attention
Reduce distraction
Encourage participation
Be as productive as possible
teaching is most effective when
Physical, virtual, and cultural spaces of the classroom are conducive to both personal and social learning
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classrooms can be crowded, complex, and potentially chaotic
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Classrooms are not multidimensional however events are often unpredictable
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Activities occur simultaneously; Things happen quickly
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Classrooms have histories; There is little privacy
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teachers should:
Establish behavioral expectations and address learner uncertainties
Ensure learners experience success
Be available and visible
Be in charge
class rules should be
Reasonable and necessary
Clear and comprehensible
Consistent with instructional and learning goals
Consistent with school rules
basic principles of classroom arrangement
Reduce congestion in high-traffic areas
Make sure that facilitators can easily see all learners
Make often-used teaching materials and learner supplies easily accessible
Make sure that learners can easily observe whole-class presentations
Learners in these seats are more likely to interact with the teacher, ask questions, and initiate discussion
action zone
Show how they are βwith itβ
effective classroom management
Develop positive teacher-learner relationship
managing the classroom
__ is a shared responsibility
learning
minor interventions of management strategies
Use nonverbal cues
Keep activity moving
Provide needed instruction
Move closer to students
Redirect the behavior
Be direct and assertive
Give student a choice
moderate interventions of management strategies
Withhold privileges or desired activities
Isolate or remove students
Impose a penalty or detention
management of inattentive students
Make eye contact with them
Discontinue the discussion by a short pause
Ask the students directly if they have any questions
management of late arrivers
Disseminate ground rule
Pause till the latecomer is settled in
Use of humor to comment on late arrivals
management of noisy students using mobile phones
Set ground rules
Stop talking in mid-sentence and look in a non-aggressive way at the student making the noise
May use humor to remind students that they are breaking the ground rules
Direct a question to the area in which the noisy students are sitting
being a great communicator is using __ communication
non-verbal