Effective Classroom Management and Positive Teaching
The main objective of classroom management is to supply students with more opportunities to understand all content that teachers do to organize students, environment, time, and materials thus students´ learning can take place. Students should be able to carry out their maximum potential, which enables students to improve appropriate behavior practices. Effective classroom management leads instructors to deal with unexpected events and have the ability to control student behavior. An essential goal for all teachers should be to have skills of effective classroom management and a positive classroom climate construction (Katharina Sieberer-Nagler, 2015).
Every action a teacher takes has implications for classroom management, including:
Creating the setting
Decorating the room
Arranging the chairs
Speaking to children and handling their responses
Putting routines in place (and then executing, modifying, and reinstituting them),
Developing rules
Communicating those rules to the students
These are all aspects of classroom management.
Wiseman and Hunt (2008) argue, that teachers are chiefly experts in the topic they instruct, but very frequently teachers have difficulties with discipline. The process of discipline does four things:
Shows students what they should have to do.
Gives students as much ownership of the problem as they are able to handle.
Gives students options for solving the problem.
Leaves students with their dignity intact.
Teachers need to take actions towards the following steps in order to have effective classroom management:
1- Classroom management
Effective Classroom Behavior Management: “Positive teachers concern themselves with what children do rather than speculating about unconscious motives or processes which may be thought to underlie their pupils´ behavior” (Marrett & Wheldall, 1990, p. 11).
Almost all classroom behavior is learned.
Learning involves changes in behavior.
Behavior changes as a result of its consequences.
Behaviors are also influenced by classroom contexts.
The teacher as a role model:
Classroom expectation
Clear roles
Handling Troubles
Handling mistakes
The Teacher as a Motivator
2- Classroom climate:
Meeting Mutual Needs
Changing counter-Productive Feelings (walk in another´s shoes”.)
3- Learning & Motivation
Feedback and Praise
Memorable Teaching and Learning
Anxiety
Learning Goals
Active learning
Effective Classroom Management, (Hammerschmidt, 2020)