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Class 11, Chapter 11: Effective Learning Environments

Chapter 9 Essential Questions:

  • What is the impact of time on learning?
  • What are the means to prevent and manage routine student misbehavior?
  • What are the strategies to prevent and respond to student behavior problems?
  • In what ways does the knowledge of effective learning environments informs intentional teaching? 
Student Activity 1: (Warm-Up Activity) List some of the classroom management concepts you wish you had during your first year of teaching:



This was what my classroom looked like during my 1st year of teaching: https://youtu.be/uBO7jVqbSe4
  • Beginning teachers and preservice teachers consistently perceive classroom management as a serious challenge (AEU, 2009; Evertson & Weinstein, 2006; Kafman & Moss, 2010; Peters, 2012; Ritter & Hancock, 2007; Veenman, 1984). 
  • Dealing with behavior problems are a major cause of teacher stress and burnout as well as job dissatisfaction (Evertson & Weinstein, 2006; Geving, 2007). 
  • Frustration with classroom management issues are cited as a primary reason by teachers who leave the profession (Ingersoll & Smith, 2003; Lewis, Romi, Qui & Katz, 2003; Liu & Meyer, 2005). 
  • There is no evidence to suggest that new teachers will ‘pick up’ classroom management skills with time and experience (Oliver & Reschly, 2007). 
These authors suggest that while surveys show experienced teachers have fewer concerns regarding classroom management, teachers who did not learn to manage their classrooms may have left the profession.

 Practices Contribute to Effective Classroom Management:
  • Starting out the right way
  • Setting classroom rules
Student Activity 2: What is the impact of time on learning?
  • With a partner discuss what you use to monitor time effectively?
  • What are some of the distractions during the school day?
  • Follow-up by looking at what the author is saying about the topic by reading pages 273-278. What connections can you make? What would make time more efficient? 
Student Activity 2a: Which is more teacher like? Which is more student like? Which is more inclusive of Lakota Culture? How does it appear in classrooms? How does it relate to the overall school climate?

Extended Reading Selection: 

Student Activity 3: What are the means to prevent and manage routine student misbehavior?

 What is the effective learning environment? After view the two videos below critique what is appropriate behavior and what is inappropriate?
Creating effective learning environments involves strategies that teachers use to maintain appropriate behavior and respond to misbehavior in the classroom.  Keeping students interested and engaged and showing enthusiasm are important in preventing misbehavior. Creating an effective learning environment is a matter of knowing a set of techniques that teachers can learn and apply. 

The Principles of Least Intervention: (Strategies for Managing Routine Misbehavior)

  • Prevention
  • Nonverbal Cues
  • Praising Behavior that is Incompatible with Misbehavior
  • Verbal Reminders
  • Repeated Reminders
  • Applying Consequences 
Student Activity 3a: Mark below as most reflective or least reflective of your teaching. Mark which is more culturally relevant? From your experience as a teacher 
Teacher is the sole leader
Leadership is shared
Management is a form of oversight
Management is a form of guidance
Teacher takes responsibility for all the paperwork and organization
Students are facilitators for the operations of the classroom
Discipline comes from the teacher
Discipline comes from the self
A few students are the teacher’s helpers
All students have the opportunity to become an integral
part of the management of the classroom
Teacher makes the rules and posts them for all students
Rules are developed by the teacher and students in the
form of a constitution or compact
Consequences are fixed for all students
Consequences reflect individual differences
Rewards are mostly extrinsic
Rewards are mostly intrinsic
Students are allowed limited responsibilities
Students share in classroom responsibilities
Few members of the community enter the classroom
Partnerships are formed with business and community
groups to enrich and broaden the learning opportunities
for students
Extended Reading Selection: Student-Centered and Teacher-Centered Classroom Management: A Case Study of Three Elementary Teachers: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ829018.pdf

Student Activity 3b: Compare and Contrast Teacher Evaluation: Most schools have adopted the Charolette Danielson
Student Learning Activity 4: What are the strategies to prevent and respond to student behavior problems?
Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline: One of the most extensively evaluated school wide approaches to classroom management is Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline (CMCD). CMCD focuses on preventing behavior problems by engaging all students in leadership roles within the class, using timers to ensure that transitional activities are quickly dealt with, and establishing predictable routines. Students have opportunities to share opinions and resolve disputes in classroom meetings. Several studies of CMCD have found that the program not only improves students' behaviors but also their learning of reading and math skills (Freiberg et. al., 2009; Freiberg et. al., 2001).

Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis:

  • Identify target behaviors and reinforcers
  • Establish a baseline for the target behavior
  • Choose a reinforcer and criteria for reinforcement
  • If necessary, choose a punisher and criteria for punishment
  • Observe behavior during program implementation, and compare it to baseline
  • When the behavior management program is working, reduce the frequency of reinforcement. 
Student Activity 4a: Read the following
Closing: One of the most dangerous schools in America:    https://youtu.be/I9gT_Nc41s4

Assignment:
  • Read Chapter 11
  • Of the Extended Reading Selections above, choose one which moves you as related to your beliefs of classroom management and write an annotated bibliography which later will find a place in your Educational Terrain. 
Extended Reading Selection:

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