Week 6 - Classroom Management

It is extremely important to have a classroom management plan for a group of diverse learners because students want and deserve a safe and nurturing environment. To have this environment it is imperative that you have a classroom management plan. Students will only learn if they feel comfortable in the classroom and they will only feel comfortable if there are procedures and rules that diminish behavioral issues and make the class run smoothly and easily.  When designing a classroom management plan, it is very important to address each and every plan individually. Your whole group prevention plan should be where you will describe how to prevent problems before they even occur. You should do this by getting to know your students and their families on a more personal level. You should also implement daily routines and procedures to make sure that the class and transitions run smoothly. It is also important to generate a list of classroom rules and design lessons that interest the students as well as challenge and engage them. The supportive plan is designed to support your students. you should, again, get to know your students. You should also implement intrinsic rewards along with extrinsic rewards as well. It is very important to support your instruction and be there to help the students when they are having trouble understanding a lesson. You should be supportive when doing this and be sure to always compliment their hard work. The corrective plan is designed to correct behaviors. You should first identify the function of behavior. There are usually two reasons that students misbehave, either they want to get something or they are trying to avoid something. It is also extremely important to follow a specific hierarchy of consequences from least intrusive to most intrusive. If the behavior is still persistent, then you must implement an individual behavior plan. For this, you must first identify the target behavior, find out the function of behavior, and think of a replacement behavior. You should then implement intervention procedures and take your data. You must then analyze your data and decide whether or not the student met the objective. This plan has the potential to change based on the individual needs of the students. 

This classroom management blog, is actually a little piece of a classroom management plan. To the read the whole thing and see more ideas of different kind of plans, visit the website!

http://www.edutopia.org/groups/classroom-management/640101