4. Emphasizing Instructions and Positive
Classroom Climate
Instructional Approach
Teachers who use the instructional approach to classroom management
prevent most management problems by actively engaging students in high-
interest lessons geared to meet their interests, needs, and abilities.
1. Make Learning Relevant
Students are more engaged in learning and retain knowledge better when they
see that it is relevant and vital to their own success and happiness.
5. 2. Create a Classroom Code of Conduct
A positive and productive classroom requires a common understanding of
positive and negative behaviors. To establish this understanding, teachers ask
students to identify the ways they like to be treated. This discussion elicits lists
of behaviors that are respectful, fair, kind, and empathetic.
3. Teach Positive Actions
• The importance of doing positive actions to feel good about yourself
• Positive actions for the intellect (such as thinking, decision-making).
• Positive actions for self-management (such as managing time, energy)
• Positive actions for getting along with others (such as treating others fairly,
kindly, and respectfully).
• Positive actions for being honest with yourself and others (such as taking
responsibility, admitting mistakes, and not blaming others).
• Positive actions for improving yourself continually.
6. 4. Instill Intrinsic Motivation
People need to feel good about themselves. In the Positive Action program,
teachers help students understand that people are likely to feel good about
themselves when they engage in positive actions. The program explains a three-
step process for choosing positive actions: First, we have a thought; second, we
act consistently with the thought; third, we experience a feeling about ourselves
based on the action. That feeling leads to another thought, and the cycle starts
again.
5. Reinforce Positive Behaviors
Teachers can strengthen intrinsic motivation by recognizing and positively
reinforcing positive actions when they see them. Recognition activities and
items—such as tokens, stickers, and certificates—can be effective.
6. Engage Positive Role Models
Families and community members are concerned about their children's welfare,
often want to be engaged in their children's education, and have resources to
offer.
7. 7. Always Be Positive
Perhaps the most important strategy, yet often the most difficult to carry out, is
to be positive. A positive attitude is the change agent that will create positive
classrooms and schools that produce happy and successful students.
8. 8. Establish Command Central
Every year teachers face the task of constructing a classroom layout to meet
their teaching goals and to equip students with the learning spaces needed to
enhance the curriculums.
9. Provide Cooperative Spaces
Today's children learn best when the classroom environment allows for the
diversity of learning modes and styles. A teacher needs to consider how to
provide for the different learning modes to ensure the content standards are
met. Providing for those who learn best, for example, by talking (oral), through
listening (aural), touching (tactile), or visually can test the best of instructors.
10. Keep on Schedule
Educators can help students keep on track and accountable by posting weekly
schedules, calendars, learning priorities, and rules hung where students can
easily view them.
9. 11. Provide the Tools of the Trade
Because children learn at different rates, a good teacher will allow students to
work at their individual level of comfort. As mentioned previously, learning
styles vary and keeping curriculum schedules posted enables students to work
at their own pace and keeps them accountable.
12. Develop a Village Of Learners
Starting on day one, students begin to establish community in the classroom.
Acceptance, accountability, worth are emerging concepts setting unspoken
rules within the social learning environment.
In the present day, children struggle morally and too often self-governed
classroom societal boundaries are deficient of appropriate social behavior. It is
the teacher's privilege to establish early on a sense of community in students
leading to a mutually shared mission of learning.
10. CREATING TEACHING AND MAINTAINING
RULES AND PROCEDURES.
In the process of creating teaching, the teacher inspires learners'
interests in learning material, and then leads students to find the
problem by themselves creatively, or present specific problems and ask
learners to apply all sorts of available resources to find the best
satisfying solution creatively.
Teaching includes:
● Effective discipline.
● Being prepared for class.
● Motivating your students.
● Providing a safe, comfortable learning environment.
● Building your students’ self esteem.
11. Why it is Important?
Teaching can only be a part of a classroom if
the teacher presiding over is an ingenious individual.
A teacher who is creative enough to be part of the
innovative classroom can design exciting new lessons,
motivate the right classroom environment required for
students to showcase their innovative minds.
12. Techniques for creating teaching:
1. Help students see their own abilities.
2. Encourage creative problem solving.
3. Read and encourage students to do the same.
4. Ask open questions.
5. Work together as a class .
13. CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
●Brainstorm.
●Use Technology.
●Get out of the classroom.
●Use mind maps.
●Build a Storyboard.
●Rethink failures.
●Encourage learning outside of a classroom.
●Flip it and reverse it.
●Connect ideas.
●Let students build and innovative.
●Rethink Literature.
●Tell stories.
●Involve all the senses.
● Go outside
●Show Students the next steps.
14. RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR MAINTAINING A
CLASSROOM
For Teachers
• Don’t talk over students chatter.
• Silence can be effective.
• Use softer voice so students really have to listen to what you’re saying.
• Direct your instructions so that students know what is going to happen.
• Monitor groups of students to check progress.
• Move around the room so students have to pay attention more readily.
• Show confidence in your teaching.
• Come to class prepared.
• Over plan your lessons to ensure you fill the period with learning.
• When discipline problems occur, take action to suppress the misbehavior
of those students who instigated the problem.
15. For Students
● Listen and follow directions.
● Raise your hand before speaking and leaving your seat.
● Respect your classmate and your teacher.
● Plan to arrive to class on time and to stay for entire class
period because random arrivals and exits are
disrespectful and distracting.
● Tablets and laptops are allowed for note taking only.