Classroom management strategies for teachers

1. Keeping Your Sanity in Tact and Your Heart
Open in the Midst Of Everyday Life

2. Why was the math
book so sad?
Because it was full of problems

3. Learning Styles Self Assessment
Column A – Tactile Learners
(aka Kinesthetic Learners)
Column B – Auditory
Learners
Column C – Visual Learners

4. Let’s Talk About It…
Why is it important for you, as a teacher,
to know what type of learner you are?
How can you use this particular
informal learning assessment in your
class?

5. Let’s See It…
Video - Rude Elementary Students
Watch The Behavior

6. Let’s Talk About It…
What does a classroom look like when
there are no management strategies
used by the teacher?
What does a classroom look like when
there are management strategies used
by the teacher?
Why is it important to develop effective
classroom skills as a teacher?

7. Definition of Classroom Management
An intra-classroom management style of instruction that
reflects the ability of the individual teacher to formally
and informally teach students while creating a positive
learning environment that allows students to develop
self-discipline techniques they can utilize throughout
their lives.

8. Definition of Classroom Management
An intra-classroom management style of instruction that
reflects the ability of the individual teacher to formally
and informally teach students while creating a positive
learning environment that allows students to develop
self-discipline techniques they can utilize throughout
their lives.

9. Definition of Classroom Management
officially
Within the walls of the room
method teaching
An intra-classroom management style of instruction that
reflects the ability of the individual teacher to formally
and informally teach students while creating a positive
learning environment that allows students to develop
self-discipline techniques they can utilize throughout
their lives.
unofficially
use
skills
control

10. Classroom Management Goals
1. To stop potential problems before they start.
2. To learn how to deal effectively with misbehavior
when it does occur.
3. To have an efficient learning environment which
meets student, teacher and school needs.
4. To never be afraid to attempt new things within the
classroom and to ask for feedback of these new strategies
5. To never give up on myself and my students.

11. Preventative Strategies
1. Establish a relationship with student by
treating them as a valuable human being with
inherent worth.
2. Making school need
fulfilling
3. Inviting cooperation within the
classroom.

12. Strategies for Responding to Misbehavior
1. Use logical and age-appropriate consequences.
2. Creative responses.
3. Focus on future behavior, not past behaviors.

13. Now You Try With Your Group …
Handout: Methods for Being
Prepared as a Teacher
We’ll do the first
one together

14. What Did I Use Today?
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Auditory Learners
Visual Learners

15. Let’s Think About What We Discovered…
Individual Work
Bonus Round

16. What Did We Talk About Today?
What type of learners we are & why this is
important for us to know
What a class looks like when the teacher plans and doesn’t plan
Goals of Classroom Ways to prevent
Management problems before
they happen
Strategies to use after problems occur

17. Before We Take A Break…
Exit Ticket –Please answer
the following questions on
the sheet provided and
turn in.
What did I learn?
What part did I find the most interesting?
Least interesting?
What will I use in my classroom?