UNIT SIX – CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
This unit seeks to introduce the student teachers to classroom management techniques. That is to expose student teachers to the various classroom management skills to make them effective, deficient and confident in the classroom environment ( physical and social environments
IMPORTANCE OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
WHAT MANAGERS AND TEACHERS DO?
To understand why the teacher is a manager we need to know what managers do and how the work of a class teacher is related to the work of a manager.
Kreimer and Kinick (1992) define management as the process or working with and through other to achieve organizational objectives in an efficient manner (p.12)
1. “Process” means doing or reaching something beginning from somewhere and ends at somewhere. Both managers and teachers do this kind of routine.
2. “Working” with and through “other” managers don’t work alone. He works through other people such as production staff, administrative staff, marketing staff, finance etc. if the class teachers work through several pupils. These responsibilities like class captain cupboard monitors etc.
3. “An organizational objective” as an expression refers to what the place, business or organization want to achieve by going through a routine process with other people.
4. “Efficient manner”: This is the quality the process or means of reaching the objectives or goals it could either be easy or difficult, simple or complex, less costly or expensive. Also it must ensure maximum use of available resources.
MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS VERSUS TEACHING FUNCTIONS
Traditionally, a manager is expected to perform five main functions namely: Planning, Budgeting, Organizing, Controlling and Problem Solving.
MANAGING PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE CLASS
This is done mainly to allow each group of learner proceed at his own pace of learning.
MANAGING PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE CLASS
Seating arrangement is one of the most important activities in which teachers are expected to do for effective teaching and learning. If it is poorly arranged the following will be the effect:
MANAGING CLASS FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING
Oslom (1871), class activity and amount of creativity in a classroom decreases as class size becomes greater. He suggested thirty-six pupils to be the class size, if above that such classes should be divided into stream. In Ghana some class are even above fifty (50) pupils.
CREATING A GOOD SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
THE STRATEGIES OF CREATING A GOOD SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT ARE:
Mixed Ability grouping should be done on subject basis
Ability grouping should always precede mixed ability.
BELOW ARE SOME OF THE GOOD TEACHING SKILLS:
WHEN THESE ARE PROPERLY DONE:
For this to be achieved the new teacher expects:
Below are expectations of the pupils:
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