Kounin's model of classroom discipline focuses on preventative techniques like withitness, overlapping, effective transitions, and reducing satiation to keep students engaged and minimize misbehavior. The model emphasizes a teacher's ability to simultaneously attend to multiple events, maintain momentum between activities, and use techniques like accountability and alerting to focus student attention on tasks. By actively engaging students and addressing misbehavior promptly, teachers can establish an orderly learning environment according to Kounin's principles of effective group management.
Teachers are the shadows of parents showing love and seldom admonishing, reaching out to be creators narrating noble deeds, like a goldsmith hammering to enrich skills and moulding tiny tots to perfection. Teaching profession is a noble one every teacher must play an important role in making a child to realize their dreams. A good teacher is the one who give their students roots and wings, Roots to know were home is, wings to fly away and exercise what is being taught to them
Teachers are the shadows of parents showing love and seldom admonishing, reaching out to be creators narrating noble deeds, like a goldsmith hammering to enrich skills and moulding tiny tots to perfection. Teaching profession is a noble one every teacher must play an important role in making a child to realize their dreams. A good teacher is the one who give their students roots and wings, Roots to know were home is, wings to fly away and exercise what is being taught to them
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Chapter 2: Philosophical Foundation of CurriculumShauna Martin
This presentation highlights information from Chapter 2: Philosophical Foundation of Curriculum from Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, and Issues by Allan C. Ornstein and Francis P. Hunkins. Highlighted here are the different educational philosophies and their unique impacts on education.
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Chapter 2: Philosophical Foundation of CurriculumShauna Martin
This presentation highlights information from Chapter 2: Philosophical Foundation of Curriculum from Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, and Issues by Allan C. Ornstein and Francis P. Hunkins. Highlighted here are the different educational philosophies and their unique impacts on education.
Managing the class is a great concern for teachers, especially the novice ones. This presentation provides an overview on important dimensions of classroom management.
Classroom management is a term teachers use to describe the process of ensuring that classroom lessons run smoothly without disruptive behavior from students compromising the delivery of instruction.. different classroom management tips and techniques are used to maintain discipline in class.
Introduction
Objectives
Definitions of Teaching
The concept of Effective Teaching
Role of Teacher for Conducive Learning Environment
Characteristics of an Effective Teacher
The Concepts of Teaching Methodologies, Strategies, and Techniques
Exercise
Self Assessment Questions
References
INTEGRATIVE DIFFERENTIATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY CLASSROOMAdebanjo Adegbohun
The topic addresses the importance and challenges of differentiated instruction from the point of view of a 21st Century teacher. It prescribes techniques that can be employed to integrate differentiated instruction, not as a failed concept, but a tool to enhance student learning, improve content delivery, meet learners needs and promote great teaching and learning experience .
INTEGRATIVE DIFFERENTIATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY CLASSROOM
Kounin model
1. Disediakan Oleh:
Idah Binti Basrin
Norzilah Jestar
Nur Maechea Binti Avelino
Mohd Shyakir Ariffin
Mohd Faiz Bin Sahmain
2. Models of classroom discipline and
its application
The Kounin Model
(Group Management)
By
Jacob Kounin
3. Introduction to Kounin’s Model…
Kounin's model focuses on preventive
discipline techniques and strategies designed
to prevent the occurrence of discipline problems
in the first place
Good classroom management depends on
effective lesson management.
Kounin's key ideas include the "ripple effect,"
"withitness," "overlapping," effective
transitions, group focus, and satiation.
4. Kounin’s Principle Teachings…
■ Teacher need to be more attentive to all aspects
of classroom.
■ Effective teacher keep students attentive and
actively involved.
■ Teacher should be able to attend to two
event/activities at the same time.
■ Activities should be enjoyable and challenging.
5. “Ripple Effect”…
☺ Occurs when the teacher corrects a misbehavior
in one student, and this positively influences the
behavior of other nearby students.
☺ It is influenced by the clarity and firmness of the
correction.
☺ The effect is greater when the teacher clearly
names the unacceptable behavior and gives the
reasons for the desist.
Exp:
Firmness, that is, conveying an "I mean it"
attitude, enhances the ripple effect.
6. ☺ The ripple effect is most powerful at the
early childhood/primary level.
☺ At the high school level, Kounin found that
respect for the teacher along with high
motivation to learn leads to the greatest
student involvement and minimum
misbehavior by students.
7. Whithitness…
☺ Teacher's awareness of what is going on in all
parts of the classroom at all times or commonly
refer as "having eyes in the back of the
head."
Exp:
If students are off-task and fooling around, the
teacher needs to send a clear message that
communicates to the students that the teacher
sees that they are not working and they need to
get started.
☺The effectiveness of withitness is increased
when the teacher can correctly identify the
student who is the ‘instigator’ of the incident.
8. ☺Teacher who target the wrong student for a
desist or a reprimand are perceived by the
students are not knowing what is really
going on.
☺Teacher should intervene early and quickly
in dealing with misbehavior. Failure to do
so allows the misbehavior to spread.
9. Overlapping…
☺ Kounin states that overlapping is the ability to
attend to two issues at the same time.
Exp:
A teacher can deal effectively with an interruption
while keeping an eye on the happenings across the
gym.
☺ Kounin found that teachers who are skilled at
overlapping were also more aware of what is going
on in the classroom.
☺ Students are more likely to stay on-task if they
know that the teacher is aware of what they are
doing and can help them when needed.
10. Effective Transitions…
☺ Kounin's research revealed an important
relationship between student behavior and
movement within and between lessons.
Notes:
Movement = pacing/momentum/transitions
≠ physical movement of teacher or students in
the class
11. ☺ Teachers' ability to move smoothly from one
activity to the next, and to maintain momentum
within an activity has a great deal to do with their
effectiveness in controlling behavior in the
classroom.
☺ In smooth transitions, student attention is
turned easily from one activity to another, thus
keeping student attention on the task at hand.
12. Group Focus…
■ The ability to keep members of the class or group
paying attention to the task is essential in
maintaining an efficient classroom and reducing
student misbehaviour.
■ Effective grouping maximizes active participation and
keeps students engaged in learning.
■ There are two techniques that can be used by the
teacher during conducting a lesson in the class.
13. Technique Function/Aim Ways to measure Advantages
Accountability Powerful force in ■ Record-keeping When students know
keeping students on- ■ Public recognition that they will be held
task ■ Skill testing accountable for their
■ Written work. learning and behavior
and teachers know
how each student is
progressing, student
misbehavior
decreases.
Alerting Focusing the attention ■ Demonstration Students become
of group ■ Using questions to more alert and give
check students more attention during
understanding the lesson/activities
■ Varying the student conducted by teacher.
who is called upon to
give an answer
14. Satiation…
■ Means being satisfied or having enough
■ To describe students progressive loss of interest in
the task especially when students experience
satiation or boredom.
Exp:
☺ Work on the task without giving it much
thought
☺ Try to create some excitement through fooling
around with a classmate or engaging in other
forms of misbehaviour
15. Kounin suggests reducing satiation by…
Providing students with a feeling of progress
Offering students challenges throughout the
lesson
Being enthusiastic.
Using different teaching styles and add
variety to the lesson
16. Conclusion…
The techniques advocated by Kounin for class control are all
intended to create and maintain a classroom atmosphere conducive
to learning. By keeping students busily and happily engaged,
behaviour problems are reduced to a minimum.
Kounin does not believe that teachers' personality traits are
particularly important in classroom control. What is important, he
insists, is teacher's ability to manage groups and lessons.