Classroom Management Final

Four elements of management (Pyramind) - be able to describe each and give examples

  • Responsive - Designing your setting; Planning & Procedures and routines; Planning for a community and culture of the classroom.

  • Active - Developing principles and rules; Building and maintaining a community; Interventions to facilitate instruction.

  • Proactive - Grace; unconditional love; Know students and context; apply law and gospel; responsibility fosters growth; restores relationships

  • Beliefs - Our attributes inform actions; we teach behavior and content; focus on our actions & increase out influence.

Management vs. Discipline

  • Management - everything that goes into proactively and actively running the classroom

  • Discipline - the thoughtful and loving response when our students misbehave, often including consequences. (The unplanned opportunity to teach behavior)

Foundational beliefs - be able to explain all four given in class

  • Gospel Ministry - role as “minster of the gospel” – teaching centered on Jesus Christ and classrooms driven by the gospel.

  • Attribution - the way we talk/describe people and situations influences how we treat those people and respond to those situations.

  • Accurate Scope - Having the right attitude about teaching — “I teach content and behavior.”

  • Control - Focus on the things we can control rather than the things we can’t.

Guidelines for giving choices

  • Choices should not be threats in disguise

  • Only gives choices that won’t make a problem for you

  • Give options that will make you happy, regardless of what your students decide

  • Give students small choices

  • Give 10 sec for your students to decide

  • Offer choices before your students become resistant…not after

Steps of Responsive Management

  • Discussion - What happened?

  • Law and Gospel - Was this sinful?

  • Consequence - What was broken?

  • Restore - What needs to happen to be an active member of the classroom community

Inner Authority and Inner Apology

  • Inner Authority (positive) - what's right for you

  • Inner Apology (negative)- apologizing for how you are and how you act (portrays that our authority is questionable and that we lack confidence in ourselves)

Boundaries - importance and how to uphold

  • Importance - maintain a clear sense of what you will and will not accept; Clear expectations = knowing students

  • How to uphold - consistency; communicate clearly; track it; follow up; check in with yourself

Lessons designed for what you will teach vs. what students learn

  • What you will teach - Lessons are created with a focus on content delivery

  • What students will learn - students truly understand and engage with the material