ITPE 5120 Negotiating the Classroom Culture

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ITPE 5120Negotiating the Classroom Culture

• Session 2
• Dimensions of environmental management

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Objectives

• SWBAT
• Describe societal factors that influence
  students behavior
• Understand the history of classroom management
• Appreciate the factors that will influence
  decisions regarding how to manage a classroom

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• Create a positive, nurturing classroom
  environment
• Describe how understanding students basic needs
  and backgrounds influences decisions regarding
  classroom management

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Agenda

• Activity Team Building
• Lecture Factors influencing student behavior and
  student needs
• Activity Answer focus questions in groups
• Activity Examine student profiles and
  inventories
• Video Managing Todays Classrooms

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Homework

• Read Chapter 3
• Complete Student Profile

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Question

• What statistics in Chapter 1 impressed you the
  most?

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Factors influencing student behavior
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Social factors

• Single parent households
• Poverty
• Child abuse
• Runaways

• Family stress
• Television viewing
• Drug and alcohol abuse
• Cultural diversity

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School factors

• Creating personally positive, supportive
  environments
• Meeting students need for meaningful academic
  tasks
• Using discipline methods that incorporate
  recognition of wrongdoing, regret or empathic
  understanding of why the act was inappropriate
  and reconciliation of relationships

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Three dimensions of school climate

• Strong emphasis on academic mission and goals in
  the school
• Clear disciplinary standards that are firmly,
  fairly and consistently enforced
• An ethic of caring that guides interpersonal
  relationships in the school
• (Office of Educational Research and Improvement)

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Effective school research

• Active, in-depth learning
• Emphasis on authentic performance
• Attention to development
• Appreciation of diversity

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• Opportunities for collaborative learning
• Collective perspective across the school
• Structures for caring
• Support for democratic learning
• Connections to family and community
• (Darling-Hammond, 1997)

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Approaches to Classroom Management

• Counseling Approach
• Behavioristic Approach
• Teacher-Effectiveness Research

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Counseling Approach

• William Glasser (Reality Therapy)
• helping students take responsibility for their
  behavior and develop plans
• Rudof Dreikur responding to student misconduct
  depending on the goal of the behavior
• Tom Gordon (Teacher Effectiveness Training)
  responding to misbehavior with open
  communications and solving problems mutually

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Behavioristic Methods

• Is focused on teacher control
• Uses behavior modification techniques
• Teaches teachers to ignore inappropriate behavior
  while reinforcing appropriate behavior
• Lee Cantor (Assertive Discipline)

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Teacher-effectiveness research

• Teachers skills in organizing and managing
  classroom activities
• Teachers skills in presenting instructional
  materials
• Teacher-student relationships

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Organization of the Text

• Theoretical Foundation (1-2)
• Prevention (3-7)
• Correction (8-11)

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Factors influencing how teachers manage their
classrooms

• Students characteristic and needs
• The school context
• Our own personal histories
• Our beliefs regarding the goals of schooling

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Student Needs
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Needs Theories

• Maslow
• Dreikurs
• Glasser
• Coopersmith

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Developmental Theories

• Greenspan
• Karr-Morse Wiley
• Garbarino
• Bowlby, Masterson Neilson
• Pipher

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Social Factors Theories

• Elkind
• Lipsitz
• Seligman

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Factors that lead to school failure

• Poor adult-child relationships
• Lack of a sense of personal efficacy or power
• Focus on external factors that influence behavior
  and the lack of taking responsibility for behavior

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• Low self-esteem
• Poorly developed sense of social cognition or an
  inability to understand others feelings and
  points of view
• Poor problem-solving skills

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Groups most likely to be at risk

• African-American
• Hispanic-American
• Native-American
• Students with learning and behavioral needs

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Focus Questions Chapter 1

• What factors influence how students behave in
  school?
• How do effective classroom management and
  schooling respond to the needs of students in
  ways that reduce the likelihood students will act
  out?
• What are the three approaches to classroom
  management?
• What student factors may influence how you will
  manage your classroom?

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Focus Questions Chapter 2

• Discuss ways in which schools in which you were a
  student meet your needs for significance,
  competence and power
• List some of the student needs that dominate and
  influence student behavior outlined in Chapter 2
• Discuss the importance of understanding the
  impact of a students developmental history has
  on his or her behavior

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• Discuss some of the factors that lead to
  underachievement and isolation of minorities
• Discuss your view of power, control, order and
  caring in the classroom
• Discuss the role of the community in meeting
  students needs

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Methods for discovering students needs

• Examine theories and associated research
• Ask students what they need in order to feel more
  comfortable and better able to learn
• Systematic observation