Classroom Management Module: Practical Classroom Management

This module introduces a set of skills that enable teachers to establish and maintain a classroom environment that maximizes students’ active engagement in learning, while also minimizing disruptive behaviors. A three-level framework for improving classroom behavior management is presented. At the universal level strategies are applied to all students. The selective level addresses strategies for students at-risk for disruption, while the intensive strategies are reserved for students already engaging in disruptive behavior. Attention is also given to strategies that have been counterproductive to successful class management.

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• Describe how the physical arrangement of classrooms provide context to understand student behavior.
• Explain how effective instructional practices promote engaged and active learners.
• Discuss the diversity of student experiences and prerequisite skills they bring to the classroom.
• Recognize the importance of the social curriculum and the need to communicate classroom rules and procedures to promote students’ expectations.
• Identify common counterproductive strategies that characterize classroom mismanagement.
• Conceptualize classroom management within the three-tier model of universal strategies applied at the whole class level, selective strategies applied to students who are at risk for creating classroom disruptions and intensive strategies for students who are actively engaged in disruptive behaviors.