Classroom Management/Engagement II

Dali Tan

December 15, 2011

Webinar Objectives

• I. Review Classroom Management Essentials

• II. Classroom Activities that Will Engage All Learners

• III. Sharing Success Stories among College Board Guest Teacher Participants on Ning after the Webinar

• IV. Q and A

Part IClassroom Management Essentials

1. Maintain a positive environment

2. Establish clear procedures.

a. Establish rules.

b. Establish connections between behavior and consequences.

c. Establish procedures for all classroom routines.

3. Plan for every single moment--and beyond!

Classroom Management Essentials

4. Be proactive: involve parents and

school community

1. Maintain a Positive Environment

• The vital piece is YOU!

• Mission

• Sense of Humor

• Keeping your “cool”

• Motivating students

• Be available and visible

2. Establish Clear Procedures

• Rules:

state in a positive manner

communicate with other teachers

choose important behaviors

short and simple statements

MODEL your expectations

2. Establish Clear Procedures

• Connection between behavior and consequences

know the process in your school

plan only consequences you are willing to apply

students need to know consequences

parents need to know consequences

2. Establish Clear Procedures

• Connection between behavior and consequences

be consistent, impartial, and fair

follow through with consequences

no threats--use your system

student makes the choice to break the rule, receive the consequence

2. Establish Clear Procedures

• Rewards

stickers

--Extrinsic

Extrinsic rewards are temporary--a bridge to positive behavior for its own sake.

--Extrinsic (Grades ???)

2. Establish Clear Procedures

• When students break the rules

“The look”

Moving in on an offender

Calling a student’s name

Moving student out of the group--temporarily

Consulting with parents, principal

3. Plan for Every Single Moment--and Beyond!

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3. Plan for Every Single Moment--and Beyond!

• Detailed lesson plan

• Procedures for using entire class time

• Sponge activities

4. Be Proactive: Involve Parents and School Community

• Work with school principal

• Enlist parent support

• Send notes, make phone calls

• Let students know you will follow up

(Reference from Language and Children: Making the Match by Helena Curtain and Carol Ann Dahlberg)

How Did A Chinese Guest Teacher

Meet Management Challenges?(One Real Life Example)

Class Rules

• Part II.

• Classroom Activities that Will Engage All Learners

We need to engage all learners through classroom activities that are:

• Intrinsically interesting

•  Cognitively Engaging

•  Culturally Connected

•  Communicatively Purposeful

(Helena Curtain)

Carol Read in her article “The Challenge of Teaching Children” reminds us to pay attention to the following factors when selecting and designing classroom activities:

• Process v product

• Activities v task

• Teacher-centered v teacher-led

•Competition v co-operation

•Stir v settle

•Involve v occupy

Language Development v whole development

Classroom activities and procedures need to take into consideration not only students’ Chinese language development but also their social, psychological, emotional and cognitive development.

Carol Read tells us that in order to engage all learners in effective learning, our classroom activities need to have the following six characteristics:

1. Full of practice

2. Appropriately supported

3. Meaningful

4. Purposeful

5. Enjoyable

6. Social

If the following are true in what you ask students to do in class, then your activities are ________?

•Different learning styles and strategies are catered for

•There is constant repetition and recycling in different ways and in different context

•There is a lot of exposure to language

•All the skills are involved

•All the senses are involved

Then, your activities are __________.

If the following are true in how you scaffold what you ask students to do in class, then your activities are ________?

•By asking questions appropriately

•By mime, gesture, body language

•By visuals, realia, etc

•By praise

•By getting students to reflect on their learning

•By expanding, remodeling children’s language

Then, your activities are __________.

If the following are true in what you ask students to do in class, then your activities are ________?•Students can understand and relate to the reasons for doing it

•They makes sense and are relevant to your students

•They build on what they already know (in life and in their first language)

They fit into a natural, real or understandable context

They are whole and not bitty

They fit with children’s experience of human intentions

Then, your activities are __________.

If the following are true in what you ask students to do in class, then your activities are ________?

•They are challenging but not too challenging

•Students are given a chance to work things out from what they know

•They help develop critical thinking skills

•Outcomes are valued by both students and the teacher

•Language is used to do things

Then, your activities are __________.

If the following are true in what you ask students to do in class, then your activities are ________?

•They spark interests and attention

•They generate pleasure in using the language

•They arouse curiosity

•They lead to success

•Students have a sense of fun in doing them

Then, your activities are __________.

If the following are true in what you ask students to do in class, then your activities are ________?

•Students are encouraged to co-operate, respect and help each other

•There is a natural, real life or real life like interaction

•There is a sense of community

Students are given opportunities to choose what to say

Classroom activities are shard experiences and events

Then, your activities are __________.

Helena Curtain added cultural dimension to Carol Read’s list.

Since we are teaching Chinese, our classroom activities need to be culturally connected.

Let’s use Helena Curtain’s and Carol Read’s criteria in judging the quality of the following activity in our Chinese classroom.

Let’s Review these criteria.

•Intrinsically interesting• Cognitively Engaging• Culturally Connected• Communicatively Purposeful

(Helena Curtain)

1. Full of practice

2. Appropriately supported

3. Meaningful

4. Purposeful

5. Enjoyable

6. Social(Carol Read)

Let’s make a Sandwich

What do you think?

Let’s talk about it.

• Part III. Sharing Success Stories in both

Classroom Management and Engagement among College Board Guest Teacher Participants through Ning

Part IV.

Q and A

多谢各位老师！

祝大家圣诞快乐，新年好！