Creating

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Creating Maintaining Effective Environments
for Student Learning

• Humanitas Webinar 3-15-07 (Part 2)

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Purpose of Presentation

• To review key components of creating and
  maintaining effective learning environments.
• To support Job Corps instructors in developing
  classroom management techniques that increase
  positive student behaviors and outcomes.

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Why?

• Without effective learning environments,
• Behaviors are random and outcomes are
  unpredictable
• Students do not learn to take responsibility for
  their own behaviors, choices, and learning
• Instructors burn out quick!

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3 Components - Review

• Foundation
• Prevention
• Intervention

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Foundation Review

• Who We Are
• Assumptions that we make
• Do we use inner authority or inner apology?
• Are we modeling behaviors that we want our
  students to emulate?
• How are we designing learning opportunities that
  include every student?

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Prevention - Review

• What are we doing proactively to prevent unwanted
  behaviors?
• Do we understand the difference between rules and
  procedures and how they are used to shape
  behaviors?
• Do we have consistent rules, and are all students
  bought in?
• Do we have procedures that set students up for
  success and eliminate all that intervention time?

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Prevention - Review

• What is the importance of building rapport?
• Besides rules, procedures and rapport, what else
  contributes to prevention?
• We call it Withitness
• Withitness in this sense, does not really mean
  being a cool teacher

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Focusing on Prevention ? Success
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Rapport
Show Enthusiasm
Be Available
Be Non-judgmental
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Withitness

• Are you constantly aware of what is going on in
  your classroom?
• Eye Contact
• Room Dividers
• Instructional Aids
• Unobstructed Passageways
• Student Traffic
• Student Space
• Student Access to Materials
• Seating Arrangements
• Other Distractions
• (http//web.utk.edu/mccay/apdm/classmgt/classm
  gt_b.htm)

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WithitnessYou tell us

• Name some ways that withitness can help build a
  productive environment.
• What are some other traits of withitness that
  you have witnessed that are effective?
• What are some common errors that you see?
• How might withitness be different in varied
  environments? Academics? Trades? WB-L?

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Prevention

• What we do proactively
• Rules Procedures
• Rapport
• Withitness

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Intervention

• What we do in response to behaviors and events.

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Intervention

• What events or behaviors push your buttons?
• What do you do?
• How is that working for you?
• What is the difference between responding and
  reacting?
• Do you believe that the way you react/respond
  actually predicts the outcome?

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Intervention

• Question What is the purpose of intervention?
• Answer To help your student modify his/her
  behavior while maintaining the integrity of the
  class.

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Intervention

• Question
• Why do students misbehave?

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Behavior is Communication

• Developing social skills
• For avoidance of failure
• For power revenge
• For attention-seeking

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Intervention Technique

• Event Response Outcome

E R O
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E R O

• When using this technique, ask
• What is the desired OUTCOME for each event?
• What would be appropriate RESPONSES to obtain
  these outcomes?

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Lets try it
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• Think of a misbehavior or event that requires
  your intervention
• Ask yourself, What is the desired outcome?
• Plan your response.

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Intervention Techniques

• Goals of Misbehavior
• For Avoidance-of-Failure Behavior
• Leave Me Alone
• For Power Revenge Behavior
• Lets Fight/You Cant Make Me/Ill get even
• For Attention-Seeking Behavior
• Look at Me

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Intervention Techniques
Attention Power Revenge Avoidance of Failure
Target-Stop Do Acknowledge their power Graceful Exits Decrease Competition
Give the eye Table the matter Consequences Chart Modify Instructional Methods
Acknowledge Appropriate Behavior Grant Legitimate Power Building Caring Relationships Make Mistakes Okay
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esentations/ShaunaKingCooperativeDiscipline.ppt2
72,21,Intervention and Prevention Strategies
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The 411 on the 911

• Know your students (KYS) and cultures.
• 1st priority in altercation Separate students
• 2nd priority Get help!
• Know JC emergency numbers and procedures.

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The Heart of the Matter

• Ive come to the frightening conclusion that I
  am the decisive element in the classroom. Its my
  personal approach that creates the climate. Its
  my daily mood that makes the weather. As a
  teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a
  childs life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool
  of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can
  humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all
  situations, it is my response that decides
  whether a crisis will be escalated or
  de-escalated and a child humanized or
  dehumanized.
• Haim Ginott

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Next Webinar

• Date TBA
• Time TBA
• Topic Classroom Strategies

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Resources

• Job Corps Learning Disabilities Website
• http//jccdrc.jobcorps.gov/ld
• Job Corps Disability Website
• http//jcdisability.jobcorps.gov/index.htm
• Diane Fairchild, National Director of Student
  Services, SIATech
• fairchilddi_at_siatech.org
• Kim Jones, Disability Coordinator, Humanitas
• kim.jones_at_humanitas.com