What is classroom management?

 Classroom Management

·         Classroom management refers to the variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep the students organize, orderly focused, attentive and academically productive during the class.

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·          Classroom management is a method and strategies that a teacher uses to maintain classroom environment that is helpful to the students learning and success.

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·         Classroom management is a method teacher use to describe the process of ensuring that classrooms lessons run smoothly without any disturbance from students compromising the delivery of instructions.

 

Strategies for classroom management:

(1)   Planning :

Making of lesson plan is an important strategy for classroom management. Teacher should plan for getting their objectives. Planning is the key aspect for effective teaching. For teachers, a plan gives the lesson a framework an overall shape.

(2)   Organization: The activities which you do with your students that must be related / align with your subject/topic.

(3)   Communication: Complement words with actions and visual aids to improve content delivery, helping students focus and process lessons. Many differentiated instruction strategies and techniques are rooted in these communication methods.

(4)   Motivation: Motivate your learners for the learning and create an interest in the students for learning.

(5)   Monitoring: Monitoring is a classroom management technique loosely defined as listening to the learners for their accuracy and fluency, or checking to see whether activities are going to plan and that the learners are “on task”.

(6)   Model Ideal Behavior: Make a habit of demonstrating behavior you want to see. And  be sure to:

·         Use polite language.

·         Maintain eye contact.

·         Keep phones in your pockets.

·         Let one another speak uninterrupted.

·         Raise concerns about one another’s statements in a respectful manner.

(7)   Avoid Punishment: Try to avoid punishing the class because it can hurt your relationships with students.

(8)   Encourage initiatives: Promote growth mindset, and inject variety into your lessons, by allowing students to work ahead and deliver short presentations to share take-away points.

(9)   Questioning: Teacher ask questions for a variety of purposes including,

·         To actively involve students in the lesson.

·         To increase motivation or interest.

·         To evaluate student’s preparation.

·         To check on completion of work.

·         To develop critical thinking skills.

·         To review previous lessons.

·         To stimulate independent learning.

(10)              PTM (Parents-Teacher meeting): Make positive phone calls for the encouragement of students. Keep students happy in and out of class by pleasantly surprising their parents. Letting parents know about their kids progress. They will generally congratulate their kids, their kids will likely come to class, eager to earn more positive feedback.

(11)              Accommodate all students/learners: Teacher should pay attention to all the learners/ adjust all the learners.

(12)              Build Relationship: The best teacher should try to build a strong relationship with his/her students. It is essential that you have to learn your students trust. Teacher must have a positive attitude. Try to treat your students with respect.