It is more than just an orderly process. If you want to start your classes smoothly, you must create a structured learning environment in which you reinforce certain behaviors and abandon others.
There are 5 elements in effective classroom management that create structures strong enough to motivate learners' learning:
- Develop effective working relationships with trainees.
- Train the learners on how learning takes place in your classroom.
- Save time and make use of it.
- Anticipate trainees' behavior in well-formulated study plans.
- Set behavioral standards that enhance learners' experience.
Let's talk about each of them in detail.
Develop effective working relationships with trainees
The most important component of classroom management is relationships. Relationships with the trainees start from the moment you enter the classroom, shake hands with them and greet them with a smile. These relationships can be strengthened when you use the trainee’s name and praise them sincerely, and these relationships are strengthened when you spend time with each trainee to get to know them and then use this knowledge to create personal learning opportunities.
Training the learners on how learning takes place in the classroom
The trainees need to know that you do not expect them to learn directly, that everyone has their own unique style of learning, and that if they follow your instructions, they will be successful in the learning process, and this is not limited to the politics of homework or working late and absence, it shows the trainees how with them, you will create a very effective teaching team.
For example, you might have a teaching principle that guides your teaching style, so teach it to your trainees, and state clearly what you're doing to help your trainees learn so that they know what you're doing and why, and then they'll be more than willing to help.
Save time and make use of it
The effective class manager must be equipped with materials and they must know how to transfer students from one activity to another without wasting time. The first thing you can do to increase the academic performance of the trainees is to increase the time they spend learning. A lot of time is wasted during the check of the attendees, the display of ads, the summons to the office, during the breaks, the presentation of the timelines for events that motivate the trainees, classroom meetings, special presentations, prizes, and other matters.
We can't avoid losing time completely, but being successful in classroom management also includes managing and keeping time beside making the best use of that time. In “Teach Like a Champion”, author Doug Lemov explains an effective way to take advantage of routines to reduce time wasted in activities such as handing out papers, and demonstrates some of the procedures to help students adopt useful habits and skills, such as the ability to answer quickly and ask questions.
Anticipating trainees' behavior in well-formulated study plans
Directing students' behavior, interests, and attention into productive learning paths requires clear and easy lesson planning. First, focus on how trainees will be able to demonstrate that they understand the learning objective and that they have achieved it. Grant Wiggins, co-author with Jason McTighe confirm this in “Understanding by Design”: “Then, create learning activities that lead the students to this point.”
According to educational researcher Robert Marzano, lesson planning efforts should focus on getting students to ask and answer questions. Asking these types of questions at key moments can be difficult, but by planning ahead, you can incorporate these types of questions in your lesson plans, and in the end, the best discipline management plan is to create a good teaching plan.
Setting behavioral standards
These standards should enhance learning, as well as outcomes that reduce or eliminate behaviors that impede learning. These standards should not be too detailed to list each behavior and the consequences of non-compliance; Rather, they should explain the main ideas of showing respect, communicating properly, and being willing to learn. The standards should also fit smoothly with the other four elements, particularly teaching your trainees how learning takes place in your classroom. Frame each lesson; This means that it must explain the performance standards for each learning activity, as well as the expected behaviors.
Conclusion
You should start by creating an effective plan for managing the classroom, but it does not end here. Throughout the year, we must be consistent and continue to develop relationships of trust, continue to teach the best learning theories, respect trainee time, respond to trainees’ behavior and needs in training plans, and adhere to high and rigorous standards of learning behavior. We also need to be flexible and adapt to difficulties that can get in the way of the best management plans.
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