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The document discusses the importance of establishing clear classroom behavior standards and routines. It notes that effective teachers take time early in the school year to develop rules and procedures to minimize disruptions and maximize learning. Involving students in designing the rules helps them understand how following rules benefits the classroom. The document provides guidance on developing a list of rules with students and getting their commitment to adhere to the agreed upon standards of behavior. It also discusses the importance of monitoring and reviewing rules on an ongoing basis.

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Lect 05

The document discusses the importance of establishing clear classroom behavior standards and routines. It notes that effective teachers take time early in the school year to develop rules and procedures to minimize disruptions and maximize learning. Involving students in designing the rules helps them understand how following rules benefits the classroom. The document provides guidance on developing a list of rules with students and getting their commitment to adhere to the agreed upon standards of behavior. It also discusses the importance of monitoring and reviewing rules on an ongoing basis.

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7/5/2009

Importance of demonstrating
desired behaviour
 Teaching is a demanding fast-paced
Lecture 5
Developing Standards for job

Classroom Behaviour  Those demanding working conditions


can cause confusion and frustration
and limit student’s learning time

 Effective teachers take time early in


 In schools where classroom and
the school year to develop
school wide behaviour expectations
classroom rules and procedures
are taught, practiced and re-taught
that help their classrooms run
when students fail to follow these
smoothly and minimize disruptions
guidelines, there is a significant
and thus maximize student’s
reduction in classroom disruptions
learning time

Getting Acquainted  The purpose of first day activities is to


help students gain a perception of their
 Students can get acquainted with their teachers as acceptable human beings
teachers in several different ways with talents and skills, including
 Teacher may teach their best lesson on considerable teaching skills
the first day of class
 Another way for teachers to introduce
themselves to students is to give some  Students should conclude that they will
type of performance or display their have a very enjoyable experience
talents spending a year with their teacher

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Time Management
 Taking into account students’
 Managing time in classroom to keep
students on-task is an important factor interests and needs, teachers must
in maintaining good discipline ask themselves what learners need
to know and how much time will be
 One problem teachers face is that of required for them to achieve
determining how much time they will acceptable level of competence
allot for each of the planned classroom
learning activities

Effective classroom procedures


 How much time can be profitably Establish routines
spent on different topics without  One essential time management task is
contributing unnecessarily to the the establishment of classroom routines
boredom of students who have only
marginal interest in the subject * Task such as taking attendance, making
announcements, distributing materials,
and collecting students work need to be
turned into routines

Involvement of students in designing


 Way also need to be devised for moving
rules
from one activity to another and for
deciding what to do when students  To discuss with students why it is
need to go to the office, or take a rest important to develop standards that all
room break members of the class agree to follow
 All these activities can be handled with  Help students understand how rules
a routine that doesn’t take the time or benefit people who must work together
the attention of teacher away from the  Advantages each child derives from
instructional process class members accepting those
standards

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Involvement of students in
Developing a list of rules
designing rules

 Let the students list all standards they


 Health and safety believe are important
 Property loss or damage
 Legitimate educational purpose
Eg:
 Serious disruption of the educational
“The way we want to act in our
process classroom so it is a good place for
everyone to learn”

Getting Commitment
 Encourage students to develop
standards in a positive manner  Once students and you have completed
the list of standards/rules, help them
cross out any that do not apply and
Eg: If a student states “don’t talk combine as many as possible
while others are talking” help the  When the final list of rules has been
students rephrase “listen quietly developed, you can lead a discussion to
while another person is talking” clarify each rule and ask students to
indicate whether they can accept the
behaviour standards

Monitoring reviewing classroom Monitoring and reviewing


rules classroom rules cont..
 Once students have developed  Each child can be asked to role play
reasonable rules and agreed to behave both the appropriate and inappropriate
in accordance with them, the next step behaviour and you can ask their peers
is to help them recognize and monitor to raise their hands whenever the
their behaviour student is behaving appropriately and
 One approach helpful with primary age place their hands on their laps when the
children is to have them take turns student is behaving inappropriately
acting out the rules

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Rules/Standards/norms

 Rules are preventive measures,


logically derived from agreed upon - Kept to a minimum number
rights of both teacher and students and
are most effective if they are - Unambiguous: specify, clearly,
- Expressed positively “hands up exactly what students are to do and
before you speak” rather than “Don’t when
call out” or “walking in corridors”
rather than “Don’t run”

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