Classroom Behaviour Management is one of the most important jobs of the classroom teacher and is becoming even more so as policies for inclusive education place further demands on the role of teachers.
A typical classroom today may have students from diverse cultural backgrounds who speak English as a second language and may have to cater to the needs of students with special needs and behavioural disorders or disabilities, such as ADHD and Aspergers. These students are often integrated into the regular classroom and their special needs have impacts on classroom behaviour management.
"Research has shown that teachers’ actions in their classrooms
have twice the impact on student achievement as do school policies
regarding curriculum, assessment, staff collegiality and community involvement”.
(Marzano 2003)
Experienced teachers* say that it takes time to develop your teaching style and refine your behaviour management philosophy, with a large amount of trial and error along the way. This site provides an overview of Behaviour Management Theory and offers guidelines for Developing a Behaviour Management Plan that will enable you to create a productive, organised and supportive classroom environment - straight up!
A typical classroom today may have students from diverse cultural backgrounds who speak English as a second language and may have to cater to the needs of students with special needs and behavioural disorders or disabilities, such as ADHD and Aspergers. These students are often integrated into the regular classroom and their special needs have impacts on classroom behaviour management.
"Research has shown that teachers’ actions in their classrooms
have twice the impact on student achievement as do school policies
regarding curriculum, assessment, staff collegiality and community involvement”.
(Marzano 2003)
Experienced teachers* say that it takes time to develop your teaching style and refine your behaviour management philosophy, with a large amount of trial and error along the way. This site provides an overview of Behaviour Management Theory and offers guidelines for Developing a Behaviour Management Plan that will enable you to create a productive, organised and supportive classroom environment - straight up!
"Good classroom management implies not only that the teacher has elicited the cooperation of the students in minimizing misconduct and can intervene effectively when misconduct occurs, but also that worthwhile academic activities are occurring more or less continuously and that the classroom management system as a whole (which includes but is not limited to the teacher’s interventions) is designed to maximise student engagement in those activities, not merely to minimize misconduct.”
Jere Brophy (1988)
*Discussions with mentor teachers, my children's classroom teachers and other experienced teachers.
