How to Resolve Classroom Management Issues
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Unlike a teacher training focus of many universities, few teachers find their day devoted to content. Many teachers find much of their time devoted to classroom management.
As times change, the type of student in any given classroom changes. More teachers report needing help with students who are non-compliant and verbally abusive to both peers and adults. Your training may not have given you the prevention and intervention tools you need to stop the extreme misbehavior that you may be coping with on a daily basis. Here are a few of the most important elements to help you in putting an end to your classroom management nightmare.
Steps
- Stop using one-size-fits-all methods and start using specific, and individualized methods. Just like adults, students can be complex. The same intervention may play out very differently from one student to the next. It is absolutely critical that you have a wide variety of methods to draw upon to manage each situation. It's not about which methods you personally want to use, it's about the best method for each student. Example strategy:Not every student understands how to be quiet in class, and much less motivated to do so. Don't just state the rules or expectations, help students establish a habit of meeting expectations. Teach your students that "when the hand goes up, the mouth goes shut". Apply a tailored "intervention" that involves the class as a whole. This will often work well with non-compliant, distracted, ADHD, and defiant students because it is so much fun — especially for the student who gets to lead the intervention.
- Teach school skills and focus on motivation. Giving rules to students who lack the skills and motivation to comply is ineffective. Contemporary children must be taught the nuts-and-bolts of the target behaviors. They also need to be convinced that education matters. Otherwise, rules and consequences will fail to elicit the desired behaviors from students who have no inclination to comply.
- Avoid outdated techniques. Use methods that fit contemporary students and contemporary problems. Years ago, you might have had a small number of unmanageable students. Now, it is common to expect as much as 14% of mainstream students to be classroom management nightmares. Don't use old-style methods to manage today's severely unmanageable students. Learn about conduct disorders, and your most misbehaved, contemporary student.
- Interact with the parents. If you find your daily resources drained on primarily a few students with behavioral problems, consult their parents. You don't need to put off meeting their parents until parent/teacher conference day. Contact them as soon as possible and arrange for a convenient time to discuss their child's behavior and/or needs. Be polite, be respectful, but be direct with the parents. Ask for their guidance and request ideas to address their child's behavior problems. If the child's parents are willing to help or at least cooperate, the experience may liberate a drain on your resources.
- Stop using one-size-fits-all methods and start using specific, and individualized methods. Just like adults, students can be complex. The same intervention may play out very differently from one student to the next. It is absolutely critical that you have a wide variety of methods to draw upon to manage each situation. It's not about which methods you personally want to use, it's about the best method for each student. Example strategy:Not every student understands how to be quiet in class, and much less motivated to do so. Don't just state the rules or expectations, help students establish a habit of meeting expectations. Teach your students that "when the hand goes up, the mouth goes shut". Apply a tailored "intervention" that involves the class as a whole. This will often work well with non-compliant, distracted, ADHD, and defiant students because it is so much fun — especially for the student who gets to lead the intervention.
Tips
- Never issue a threat you cannot or will not carry out.
- Be scrupulously fair and consistent in your response.
- Never lose your temper. You are the adult and you must behave accordingly at all times.
- Don't fire your big guns until the last moment. Have a set of responses which build up in their severity. Try to resolve the behaviour yourself first and only bring in your line manager when your sanctions have failed.
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