Classroom Management

1. Classroom Management Techniques
•Focusing- Make sure that you have the class’ attention before you start
your lesson.
•Allowing students to be a part of the development of rules .
* Positivism - Being positive, highlighting good behaviour and
modelling good behaviour.
*Always be calm and collective when responding to students’ behaviour
•Be organized and prepared for both class and unforeseen
circumstances.
• Punishment can be used by applying a suitable consequence to the
class’s action immediately after an inappropriate act is done.
* Modelling expert and referent power.
* Class Meetings designed to provide an opportunity for the teacher and
the students to learn the democratic procedure of cooperation, mutual
respect, emotional honesty, and responsibility”
*Assigning students with different roles in the classroom

2. Ideas for Introducing Lesson/Hook
Strategies
 Singing Songs
Reading Poems
Short stories
Discovery

3. Verbal & Non Verbal Tactics
Verbal Tactics Non Verbal Tactics
Speaking to students to transmit
messages.
Creating signs and posters with
classroom rules.
Creating Educational charts.
Writing notes on the board.
Eye contact with students indicating
that they are being paid attention to.
Eye contact to discipline students
when they are misbehaving, when
students realise that you are seeing
them they would stop.
Different tones of voice to stress on
what is being said.
Touching students to give comfort or
to indicate a stop to a wrong action.
Proximity.

4. Motivational Techniques
Rewards will be given for
displaying recommended
behaviours. Examples: stars
on books, class
responsibilities, privileges,
stickers etc.
Progress charts will be made,
when students do well their
names will be placed in the
sky, then clouds, then stars to
distinguish achievements.
Praising students for their
attempts to answer
questions whether they
were right or wrong.
Shared responsibilities in
learning; a learner centered
approach. Students will be
motivated to learn because
learning is in a new form
away from direct instructions.

5. Devotional Ideas
Each child will be given one day to pray for the class.
Each child will be previously asked to prepare a bible
reading for the next class once for the term.
Each day the class will sing one hymn of the students’
choice.

6. Other Classroom Ideas
•Changing classroom layout every month to accommodate
different teaching and learning strategies.
•Having a ten minutes weekly ceremony to acknowledge achievers.
• Adopting routines eg. passing books up to the first desks then to
one side of the class to avoiding students getting up.
•Providing necessities for the students eg. Hand sanitizer,
hand soap, extra pencils, rulers etc.