Classroom Management Theories Theorists 1

Classroom
Management
Theories/Theorists
By: Erica Horsfield
Classroom Management Plan of My

Teachers:
The teachers that I had, had many different classroom management
techniques. Some of those techniques included:
Reward System: extra recess, homework passes, free time, show
and tell.
Behavior chart: red-bad and a note would be sent home to parents,
yellow- needed improvement and have to sit out of recess, greengood job!
Student job charts: teacher helper, paper collector, office runner,
attendance taker.
Stick Jar: the teacher has a jar filled with sticks with each childs
Student Discipline Plan of My Teachers:

Many of my teachers had their own unique discipline or behavior
plans, but the ones that I can really remember include:
Classroom Rules: made very clear and highly reinforced
Consequences: positive and negative based off of behavior
Warnings/ Strikes: once a student had reached three strikes their
parents were called or they were sent to the office.
Behavior chart: shows students how they are doing and how they
might need to work on their behavior before a consequence
occurs.
Rudolf Dreikurs:
Rudolf developed a method for understanding
behavior in children.
He didnt believe in either reward or punishment.
His main focus was that children need to feel
socially accepted and that they only act out
when they do not feel as if they fit into a social
group.
He believed that there are four things that
motivate a childs behavior; attention getting,
power and control, revenge, and inadequacy
and helplessness.
Alfie Kohn:
Alfie believes that the most important skills
that students need to be taught are;
responsibility and respect.
He believes that students should be
actively engaged in their learning to keep
them focused and on task.
He strongly thinks that teachers need to be
more welcoming to students mistakes,
because they show us that they are
thinking and also because it makes
students feel safer and will promote more
William Glasser:
William developed the Reality Theory and
the Choice Theory.
His theories focus on personal choice,
personal responsibility, and personal
transformation.
He believed that all we do is behave, most
of our behaviors are chosen, and that we
are driven to satisfy five basic needs;
survival, love, belonging, power, freedom,
and fun.
Thomas Gordon:
Thomas created a model of classroom
management called Teacher
Effectiveness Training.
His management style promotes problemsolving techniques, positive relationships
and communication strategies, and
school-wide strategies.
The four basic strategies of his theory are;
the behavior window, active listening, Imessage, and no-lose conflict resolution.
Haim Ginott:
Haims theory of classroom management
aims to focus on the students feelings.
The teachers role plays the most
important part of this theory because
any response a teacher gives to their
students will impact the climate of the
classroom and the students emotions.
He believes that a teachers role is also to
educate student on their feelings and
make sure that they are able to be
open about them and comfortable in
Burrhus Frederic Skinner:

B.F. Skinner strongly believed that a persons
actions were impacted by the
consequences of their previous actions.
He believed that if the consequences of an
action were bad, the child would not repeat
that action, and if the consequences were
good, they would repeat it.
This plays into classroom management
because a teacher can control the
behaviors of their students by the way they
react and what consequences they give
Jacob Kounin:
Jacobs beliefs were that teachers needed to keep
students attentive and actively involved.
He also believed that they way a classroom is ran
from the beginning can really affect the
misbehavior in the classroom.
He states that the key to running a successful
classroom is to try and prevent classroom
management problems from ever occuring.
Fred Jones:
Fred discovered many successful tools for
running a well managed classroom.
He believed that by maintaining active student
involvement, a teacher can prevent most
discipline problems.
His theory was to eliminate wasted class time
while teaching student responsibility,
independence and cooperation, which would
keep them more focused and more likely to
be on task and not misbehaving.
Lee Canter:
Lee believed in using assertive discipline in the
classroom, which is students and teachers
having the right to teach and learn in a calm
environment that is free of disruption and
misbehavior.
With assertive discipline teachers have full
control of their classrooms and set specific
rules.
Teachers also have to be very strict with the
rules in order to get students to obey and
follow them correctly.
Harry and Rosemary Wong:

Harry and Rosemary wrote books and
created trainings for educators on
classroom management and effective
teaching strategies.
They presented the pragmatic
classroom which includes; set
classroom procedures, collaborative
space, and specific rules.
Teachers that teach with this style have
to explain everything to their students
and specifically tell them how they
Theories that my teachers used:

Many f these theorists believed that it was very important to set
specific classroom rules, which is definitely something that all of
my teachers did.
A few of my teachers really focused on teaching us students respect
and responsibility, which was one of Alfie Kohns beliefs.
I think that my preschool and kindergarten teachers used William
Glassers approach, because they allowed a lot of free play and
personal choice activities.
In the older grades, my teachers really focused on Thomas Gordons
views because they did a lot of problem solving, relationship
My Management Style:
Personally I see myself following William Glassers theory, because I
believe with the younger aged children that I want to teacher, letting
them pick and chose things is very important. With 4 year olds they
have little interest in things that they dont find interesting and things
that they dont care about. Making the learning and lessons about
their interest areas will allow them to become more engaged and
actively involved. I also think that during times of the day like center
time, by allowing them to pick and have personal choice for what they
want to do, allows a teacher to pick out different things about each
and every students learning style and personality.
I would also really like to incorporate Alfie Kohns perspective of
classroom management into my own some day. I think that teaching
children the concepts of respect and responsibility is a great place to
start, and without those two components coming from every student,
a classroom will not run very successfully. By establishing those two
concepts, students will be able to open themselves up to so many
more learning opportunities and they will be so much more successful
in the future, which as a teacher, I think that that would be a pretty
great goal to hit.
I also strongly agree with the theorist Fred Jones. Freds main belief
was that the best way to keep students from misbehaving is to keep
them engaged in the activities and learning. I think that as a teacher
one of the most important parts of teaching successfully is providing
activities and lesson that are interesting to the students. If they are
interested and actively participating, there will be little time for them
to get off task and misbehave. This will provide a much better learning
environment for the teacher along with all of the students.

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