Classroom Management

(last updated 4/23/08)

Student Performance Objectives:

• The teacher candidate will characterize procedures for appropriate classroom management strategies that include the concepts of "firm, fair, friendly, and focused."
• The teacher candidate will describe four major styles of classroom management strategies, and the benefits and/or consequences of each.
• The teacher candidate will describe the range and relative "levels" of different types of disciplinary action.
• The teacher candidate will apply basic principles, their corollaries, and classroom management strategies to a variety of disciplinary scenarios.

PHY 311 Course Syllabus

Classroom Control (PowerPoint presentation)

Control Measures for the High School Setting

50 Corollaries to Control Measures

Levels of Disciplinary Action

Classroom Control Scenarios -- Procedures

General Suggestions For Classroom Rules in High School Science

Questions Asked by Prospective Teachers Concerning Behavior

Classroom Management Styles

REQUIRED CLINICAL EXPERIENCE -- Classroom Management Style Analysis

Optional Readings:

When New Teachers Meet the Classroom Terrorist (special concerns for female teachers)

School Violence in America

Operation Respect: Anti-bullying Campaign

Reflections on Self-destructive Adolescent Behavior

Discipline Associates (a commercial group with some interesting resources)

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