Behaviour management is a key part of classroom management and involves having strategies to support students' behaviour in ways that help them learn. Some effective strategies include modeling ideal behaviour, involving students in creating clear rules, praising positive behaviour, building relationships with students, and addressing bad behaviour consistently and privately. The goal is to create a positive environment where students are engaged and motivated to follow expectations.
Behaviour management is a key part of classroom management and involves having strategies to support students' behaviour in ways that help them learn. Some effective strategies include modeling ideal behaviour, involving students in creating clear rules, praising positive behaviour, building relationships with students, and addressing bad behaviour consistently and privately. The goal is to create a positive environment where students are engaged and motivated to follow expectations.
Behaviour management is a key part of classroom management and involves having strategies to support students' behaviour in ways that help them learn. Some effective strategies include modeling ideal behaviour, involving students in creating clear rules, praising positive behaviour, building relationships with students, and addressing bad behaviour consistently and privately. The goal is to create a positive environment where students are engaged and motivated to follow expectations.
Behaviour management is a key part of classroom management and involves having strategies to support students' behaviour in ways that help them learn. Some effective strategies include modeling ideal behaviour, involving students in creating clear rules, praising positive behaviour, building relationships with students, and addressing bad behaviour consistently and privately. The goal is to create a positive environment where students are engaged and motivated to follow expectations.
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Behaviour management:
Behaviour management is one of the most important features of classroom
management. It is not just about punishing the undesired behaviour or rewarding the desired behaviour but also about having strategies or plans in place to support children to behave in ways that help them gain the most from their schooling, make students accountable for their behaviour and encouraging positive behaviour.
Strategies:
There are lots of strategies or techniques that a teacher can use to improve classroom behaviour, build relationships for a better classroom community, and be a positive classroom environment where student learning is the number one collective goal.
1. Model Ideal behaviour: If a teacher wants the students to behave in a certain
way, make a habit of demonstrating behaviour you want to see.
2. Take students point of view while making guidelines: Ask all students to help you build classroom expectations and rules. A teacher can ask students what they believe should and shouldn’t be considered as appropriate behaviour. Having a discussion can lead to mutually-understood and -respected expectations for your classroom culture.
3. Document rules: Print and distribute the list of rules that the class discussion generated. Then, go through the list with your students. Doing this emphasizes the fact that you respect their ideas and intend to adhere to them. And when a student breaks a rule, it’ll be easy for you to point to this document.
4. Avoid punishing the class: Address isolated discipline problems individually
instead of punishing an entire class, as the latter can hurt your relationships with students. Try to talk to students in a friendly manner while addressing their inappropriate behaviour indirectly.
5. Offer praise: Praise students for jobs well done, as doing so improves academic and behavioural performance. Praise can:
Inspire the class
Improve a student’s self-esteem Reinforce rules and values you want to see
More importantly, it encourages students to repeat positive behaviour. That will
also motivate other students to do the same.
6. Hold parties: Throw an occasional classroom party to acknowledge students’
hard work, motivating them to keep it up. Even if it’s just for 20 or 30 minutes, they should be happy with snacks and a selection of group games to play. Clarify that you’re holding the party to reward them and they can earn future parties by demonstrating ideal behaviour, collectively scoring high on assessments and more. 7. Give tangible rewards: Reward specific students at the end of each lesson, in front of the class, as another motivational and behaviour-reinforcement technique. 8. Build excitement for content and lesson plans: Start lessons by previewing particularly-exciting parts, hooking student interest from the get-go. The goal of this classroom management technique is to immediately interest students in your agenda and thereby dissuade misbehaviour. 9. Interview students: Interview students who aren’t academically engaged or displaying pro-social behaviour to learn how to better manage them. While running learning stations or a large-group activity, pull each student aside for a few minutes. Ask about: What helps them focus Who they work well with Their favourite types of lessons Their favourite in-class activities Which kinds of exercises help them remember key lesson points
Note their answers to come up with activities and approaches that engage them, thereby limiting classroom disruptions.
10. Address bad behaviour quickly:
Avoid hesitation when you must address bad behaviour, especially when a student breaks a documented rule. Failure to act can result in more poor behaviour, leading to needlessly-difficult conversations. But keep in mind: It’s usually best to talk to the student in private. Punishing students in front of peers has “limited value.”
11. Consider peer teaching: Use peer-teaching as a classroom management strategy
if you feel your top performers can help engage and educate disruptive and struggling students.
Peer teaching activities, such as pairing students together as reading buddies, can be especially beneficial for students who suffer from low confidence and poor interpersonal skills. 12. Build relationships: This is hands down the most effective classroom management technique. When students trust their teacher, they make more of an effort to follow the rules. When teachers make an effort to get to know each student on a more personal basis, they get more out of their teaching experience as well. Each class should feel more like a family. 13. Make positive phone calls home: Another important classroom management technique is the positive phone call home. Many teachers fall into the trap of only calling home when there is an issue to report. While these calls are necessary and worthwhile, calls for celebration are equally, if not more, important. Every parent wants to hear positive news about their child, and this reinforcement almost always makes its way back to the student. Try to make one positive call to a different student’s home every single day, even if it’s simply to report on a nice comment a kid made in class. This means so much to parents and students and usually translates to positive classroom behaviour as well.
The above techniques can help in managing the behaviour of the students in the classroom very well to a certain extent.
"The Stronger The Relationship and The Better We Understand Our Students, The More Knowledge and Goodwill We Have To Draw On When The Going Gets Tough," Writes Marieke Van Woerkom
"The Stronger The Relationship and The Better We Understand Our Students, The More Knowledge and Goodwill We Have To Draw On When The Going Gets Tough," Writes Marieke Van Woerkom
