SuperSub Workshop

Angela B. MooreResource TeacherHuman Resources

Reflect on the topic of classroom management.

Locate the graphic organizer at your table called “Classroom Management KWL Chart.” Complete the first column called “What I Know” by writing in what you already feel you know about classroom management.

Share with whole group.

Reflect on what you WANT to know about classroom management, jot those ideas down in the second column.

Find your partner (find someone with the same color name tent as yourself) and share your WANT column.

Participants will be able to describe effective teaching, identify strategies for successful classroom management, and implement strategies in the classroom.

Introduction and Opening ActivityOverview of Classroom ManagementCharacteristics of an Effective Teacher and

ClassroomMaking Positive Connections with StudentsHolding Your Ground with Inner AuthorityClassroom Management To Do List and Filler

ActivitiesClosing Activity and Evaluation

Arrive early. JCPS requires you to be at your assigned school fifteen minutes prior to school start time and fifteen minutes after dismissal.

Dress for Success. Students and adults respond positively to professional appearance.

Follow the teacher’s lesson plan as provided for you.

Engage students in meaningful instruction and initiate the lesson as soon as class begins.

Excerpt above from page 7 of the JCPS Certified Substitute Teacher’s Handbook

Classroom Management

From the Jefferson County

Public Schools’

Certified Substitute

Teacher Handbook,

page 17

http://web2.jefferson.k12.ky.us/ccg/jcpsform/SubTeacherHandbook.pdf

Classroom management

From the

Jefferson County

Public Schools’

Substitute Teacher

Handbook, page 17

http://web2.jefferson.k12.ky.us/ccg/jcpsform/SubTeacherHandbook.pdf

“Effective classroom management is essentially invisible.”

WHO WE AREHow we hold ourselves internally and how we

come across to our studentsWHAT WE DO

Specific strategies for designing and maintaining a positive classroom environment, connecting with students, and taking care of business.

FoundationAssume the BestInner AuthorityAsk for HelpGot Stress?

From Rick Smith’s Conscious Classroom Management

PreventionHolding our GroundPositive ConnectionsTeaching

ProceduresConsistencyGetting ReadyLesson Design

•Take a moment to visualize the best teacher you have seen in action.•Brainstorm these characteristics on your paper in the thinking cloud.•Locate your table’s paper teacher-doll. •Discuss and jot down the characteristics of an effective teacher on the paper doll.

Are… Flexible. Organized. Knowledgeable. Sense of humor. Fair. Patient. Caring. Good communicator. Reflective . Firm. Positive. Consistent. Enthusiastic. Honest.

Sometimes make mistakes.

Sometimes have bad days.

Sometimes feel helpless. Sometimes feel

overwhelmed. Sometimes feel stressed. Sometimes feel under-

appreciated.

Positive Assumptions

Negative Assumptions

• They haven’t fully learned the appropriate behavior.

• They want to know that the classroom environment will be safe and structured.

• They are signaling the teacher to teach behavior more thoroughly or differently.

• They are bad kids.

•They don’t want to learn.

•They are trying to hurt the teacher.

Model the behavior we want.Establish friendly, but appropriate ,

relationships.Make a connection.Maintain a high ratio of positive to

negative statements.Communicate high expectations.Share control.Negotiate and provide a choice.

Choices should be authentic and legitimate. Both choices should be acceptable to both teacher and student. Say each of your choices with equal amounts of enthusiasm.

From The Key Elements of Classroom Teaching by Fisher, Hoover, and McLeod

Find your partner.Decide which one of you is the teacher and which

one is the student.The student’s job is to get the teacher to allow him

to leave the classroom. The teacher’s job is to communicate that the student cannot leave.

The teacher may NOT raise his voice or tone or look away from the student. The student has no such limitations.

The teacher’s vocabulary is now limited to the following words: “No. I understand, and the answer is no.”

Consider avoiding the word “No” entirely. For example, “Yes, you can go to your locker, as soon as the bell rings.”

Don’t over-explain.Provide student with a time to come to you later.

“We can discuss that in ten minutes after we finish this activity.”

Do not blame.Do not complain.Provide no wiggle room.An effective “No” has no animosity, baiting,

antagonism, sarcasm, attack, or humiliation.

Greet students at the door.Use proximity control.Pause.Maintain eye contact.Say students’ names.Use a firm yet soft voice.Vary tone and volume, but do not yell.Count backwards from 20 to 1.Hold up a timer and play “Beat the Clock.”Hold up a hand.Get full silence before you continue.

Ask a neighbor teacher to help you.

Arrive early so you can be prepared.

Bring a “toolkit” with you so you will be prepared to fill in a lesson. See SuperSub Workshop schedule.

Sample “Filler” ActivitiesReciprocal TeachingHighlightsThe Big PicturePredictionsWriting activity

(reflect on day’s lesson, for example)

Icebreakers/Getting to Know You activities

From The First 60 Days of Teaching by Robert L. DeBruyn

Breaux, A., & Whitaker, T. (2006). Seven Simple Secrets. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education.

DeBruyn, R. L. (2001). The First 60 Days of Teaching. Manhattan, KS: The Master Teacher, Inc.

Fisher, J., Hoover, G., & McLeod, J. (2003). The Key Elements of Classroom Management. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Rutherford, P. (2002). Why Didn’t I Learn This in College? Alexandria, VA: Just ASK Publications.

Smith, R. (2004). Conscious Classroom Management. San Rafael, CA: Conscious Teaching Publications.

JCPS Certified Substitute Teachers’ Handbook

http://web2.jefferson.k12.ky.us/ccg/jcpsform/SubTeacherHandbook.pdf Resource Teacher – Human Resources Contact – Angela Moore

Email: angela.moore@jefferson.kyschools.us Phone: (502)485-7069

JCPS Substitute Teachers’ Blog

http://jcpssubs.wordpress.com Link to this PowerPoint Presentation

Online video tutorial

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