Students need to feel confident and comfortable in order to learn as effectively as possible. All educators should run classrooms to create such a learning environment. Whether you are a kindergarten, elementary, high school teacher or if you teach at university, being able to implement a class management program will help you keep the rules and organization of your students firm.
Steps
Step 1. Understand the purpose of a classroom management program
Such a program is intended to help you gain and maintain control of the class. It helps to know how to act in the presence of unwanted behavior, such as a delay, a naughty attitude, or a task not done. By considering these things in advance, you will be able to have the right reaction instead of being carried away by the indignation of the moment.
Step 2. Write it down
For each of the following sections write your answers. Be as specific and detailed as possible. Create an outline that is easy to understand and follow.
Step 3. Identify your philosophy
Many classroom management programs start with the teacher's own motivational philosophy.
- Behaviorist theories are based on the ideas of psychologist B. F. Skinner. His thinking revolves around the concept of encouraging the behavior that the teacher would like to repeat and of punishing the negative or unwanted one.
- Cognitivist theories focus on beliefs and attitudes. In the school context, teachers can manage the class, coming to understand what motivates children to act correctly, helping them to identify what their study objectives are, to interact positively with others and to break down obstacles in the learning path.
- The theories of humanistic psychology are based on the teaching of Abraham Maslow. He believed that every person has an innate desire for growth and to overcome the degrees corresponding to individual development. Its hierarchy of needs represents the different levels that everyone can reach: physiology, security, belonging, esteem and self-realization.
Step 4. Incorporate school methods and processes aligned with educational programs
Build everything from these guidelines, integrating them into your system of methods and approaches, to create a constructive classroom climate for children.
Step 5. Consider the preventative measures of classroom management
Classroom management does not mean punishing pupils who engage in bad behavior. It also concerns the implementation of preventive measures that help to gain control before the wrong action occurs.
- Set the stage on the first day of school. Start building a friendly relationship with your pupils so that they get to know each other. Share the rules and the consequences that come with them, so they are aware in advance of how you expect them to behave.
- Create a constructive classroom environment. Encourage them to participate and acknowledge their contributions. Create a relationship of mutual respect.
- Practice a variety of teaching methods. Each student learns differently. Try to vary your lessons by doing small groups, activities, games and multimedia work.
- Establish procedures and methods in the first two weeks. Review them when necessary, especially after winter and spring breaks. Stick to a routine schedule so kids know what's in store every day. Periodically detaching from habit can be effective in special circumstances, when it is necessary to evaluate the preparation of pupils.
Step 6. Define the class rules
It is important that you follow the rules too. Be an example and let them know they can count on you and take your word for it. List these things on your schedule.
- Focus on certain themes or big concepts. For example, respect and integrity are the most common values in the school context.
- Point out. Great concepts are useful, but only if they translate into certain behaviors. For example, respect can be shown by arriving on time, not interrupting others while they speak, keeping cell phones and other electronic devices away, and paying attention.
- Create the rules together. At the very least, explain your rules and discuss them in class. This will allow them to contribute and develop a sense of belonging to the class.
Step 7. Explain the consequences of breaking the rules
Communicate in advance what these consequences may be, so they know what to expect when they behave wrongly. You can clarify this on the first day of school by hanging a poster on the wall or by including this topic in the course syllabus. Specify it well and follow it.
Step 8. Write a contract explaining the rules, consequences, rewards, procedures established to pupils and parents, who in signing it will declare that they have read and understood it
Finally, you will have it returned to you.
Advice
- Search the internet for some classroom management programs. In this way, you will have several examples from which to draw new and interesting ideas to realize.
- Ask an experienced colleague for advice. Chances are he or she knows the pupils you are working with and can help you compose a management program appropriate for your class.
