This document provides guidance on effective classroom management strategies for teachers. It discusses establishing clear procedures and routines to maximize instructional time and minimize disruptions. Specific recommendations include developing 3-5 simple, positively stated class rules with logical consequences, explicitly teaching procedures to students, maintaining authority through prepared lessons and organized transitions between activities, and building rapport with students and parents. Overall, the key aspects of classroom management outlined are setting expectations, maximizing engagement, and fostering respectful relationships to facilitate student learning.

1. Classroom ManagementClassroom Management
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Ahmed Hussein KHalafAhmed Hussein KHalaf

2. What is Classroom
Management?
Classroom management is the
practices and procedures that
allow teachers to teach and
students to learn.

3. Classroom Management
Teacher’s
Role
Instructional
Strategies
Procedures &
Routines
Discipline

4. The Ideal Teacher:
• Enjoys students.
• Uses different teaching
techniques.
• Has a great sense of humor.
• Acts like an adult and not a
child (or high school
student).
• Keeps promises.
• Is organized.
• Knows the subject matter.
• Admits when he or she is
wrong.
• Uses a pleasant voice.
• Is enthusiastic about the
subject.
• Is willing to listen to both
sides of an issue.
• Has a reputation for giving
challenging work.
• Isn’t a pushover. Keeps
misbehaving students in
line.
• Keeps everyone busy.
• Does not have favorites.
• Is polite to everyone all of
the time.
• Is friendly and fair.

5. The Teacher-Student
Relationship
1. You should show that you care about your students.
Attend sporting events, ask about their hobbies, make a
connection.
2. You should have a thorough knowledge of your subject
matter. Being prepared builds trust.
3. You should take command of the class. If you are not the
classroom leader, the students will gladly assume the
position.
4. You should act in a mature manner all of the time. Don’t
be sarcastic. Don’t tell lies. Don’t lose your temper.
5. You should maintain a certain emotional distance
between yourself and your students. Students have peers.
They need you to teach.

6. Dressing Appropriately
• “We are walking,
talking
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for who we are.”
• Educators should
dress for respect,
credibility,
acceptance, and
authority.

7. Effective Instruction
• A structured and instructionally
sound classroom will eliminate a
majority of misbehaviors.
• Two important key factors are:
Room arrangement
Time management

8. Movement is the key
• Be able to have quick access to any student
at any time.
• Be comfortable moving around your room
during instructional periods.
• Being in close proximity to a student is an
effective deterrent.

9. Effective Time Management
Curbs Discipline Problems
• The more engaged a student is
the better he behaves.
• Students tend to be more
distracted during these 3 phases
of instruction:
» The beginning of class
» Transitions
» The end of class

10. Ideas for the Beginning of
Class
• It is ESSENTIAL that
the students have an
activity to complete as
soon as the bell rings.
• Take roll while the
students are working
on the assignment.
• Have your students:
– Create a test question.
– Illustrate important
information.
– Scan the day’s reading
assignment.
– Take a mini-quiz.
– Draw a cartoon.
– Summarize the previous
day’s topic.

11. Managing Transitions
Time students between transitions.
Provide students with a checklist of the
day’s activities.
Give students activities to “sponge” any
dead time.
• List ten words associated with the
lesson today.
• Defend your position on…
• Make flashcards for this unit.
• Circle the key words from yesterday’s
notes.

12. Ending Class Without Chaos
• The end of class
should be as structured
as the beginning.
• Closing exercises will
provide a constructive
review of the day’s
lesson.
• Be sure that you
dismiss the students
and not the bell.
• Some more ideas to try
from Julia G. Thompson:
– Chain Games
– Rapid-fire drills
– Predict the next lesson
– Review homework
directions
– Show a relevant cartoon
– Play a game for bonus
points

13. An Effective Discipline Plan
• The 3 most important
student behaviors to
teach on the first days of
school are:
– Discipline
– Procedures
– Routines
“If you do not have a plan, you are planning
to fail.”

14. Class Rules
Abide by the Rule
Positive Consequences:
REWARDS
Break the Rule
Negative Consequences:
PENALTIES
Your Discipline Plan

15. The Rules About Rules
• “The function of a rule is to prevent or
encourage behavior by clearly stating student
expectations.”
General Rules:
Respect others.
Be polite and helpful.
Specific Rules:
Be in class on time.
Keep your hands, feet,
and objects to yourself.
What are the advantages and
disadvantages to both?

16. Creating Your Class Rules
• Only have 3 to 5 rules
• State rules positively.
• Make the rules easy for you and your students to
remember.
• Be able to enforce the rules consistently.
• Remember:
– Rules deal with behavior, not procedures.

17. Rewards
• “The best reward is the satisfaction of a job
well done.”
• Some examples include:
» Praise
» A note home (Good News
Cards)
» Student of the day, week, or
month
» Tangible rewards
» Work posted
» Certificates of Honor
» Coupons

18. Penalties
• Time out
• Demerit or fine
• Detention
• Assignment to write ways
to correct problem
• Being last to leave
• Loss of reward
• Exclusion of class
participation

19. Enlist Parent Support
• Be sure to send a copy of your discipline plan
home to parents the first day of school.
• Make positive parent contact before you need their
assistance with a problem.
• Contact parents as soon as you see a change in their
child’s behavior patterns.
• Parents can be one of your biggest allies in
managing the student’s behavior.

20. Procedures and Routines
• “The number one problem in the classroom is not
discipline; it is the lack of procedures and
routines.”
• “A procedure is simply a method or process for
how things are to be done in a classroom.”
• Procedures answer the question, “What do I do
when…?”

21. Classroom Procedures That
Must Become Routine:
1. Beginning of a period. Do students know
what to do?
2. Quieting a class. Do students know how
you will quiet them down?
3. Students seeking help. Do students know
how to get your attention?
4. Movement of students and papers. Do
students know how to move about the
room and pass papers in?
5. End of period. Do students know who or
what will dismiss them at the end of the
period?

22. Procedures to Consider
• Entering the classroom
• Getting to work
immediately
• End of class dismissal
• Participating in class
discussions
• Changing groups
• Turning in papers
• When you finish early
• Asking a question
• Responding to fire,
severe weather, and
tornado drills
• Leaving the classroom
• When visitors arrive
• Keeping a notebook
• Interruptions
• Getting classroom
materials

23. You Must Teach Procedures!
EXPLAIN
REHEARSE
REINFORCE

24. 4 Actions That Helped Me and
Will Help You Too!
• Maintain a professional relationship with
students and fellow colleagues.
• Be fair and consistent with students
regardless of who they are.
• Use class time wisely to avoid
misbehaviors.
• Take an interest in students’ extracurricular
activities.

25. Prepared with
Ahmed Hussein KHalaf
English Department
4th
year
Email:
ahmedhussein192@yahoo.com
Phone:
01144995996
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