Michelle McKittrick - Informal Contracts and Classroom Management

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Are you having trouble managing the behaviour of certain students in your class?? Are you exhausted by the end of the day and your throat hoarse??? This session will look at elements of the DoE’s CMS program, with a focus on taming one of your challenging students with the use Informal Contracts.

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Classroom Management

Strategies

Dealing with a student’s persistent misbehaviours

Effective Classroom Management

Preventing inappropriate

behaviour

According to instructional repertoire

Creating belonging

Responding to inappropriate

behaviour

According to the Bump Theory

Bump 6 – Informal Contracts

Why:

• Minimises time spent dealing with misbehaviour during class time (allows action, rather than teacher talk);

• Allows persistent problems to be dealt with using low-key responses; and

• In a positive way, indicates to the student that you wish to work cooperatively to solve the problem so that you can teach and others can learn.

Preconditions:

• Do this at a time of calm, not crisis.

• When the student comes in to chat have a list of specific behaviours to target (no more than 2).

• Have a planned course of action. How can I alter the behaviour around this student.

• Need appropriate consequences.

Structure:

1. Greet student and set atmosphere.

2. Define the Problem.

3. Negotiate the extent of the problem using numbers

4. Agree on Consequences

5. Enact closure - Check for understanding

6. End Conference.

Roleplay

Can you identify the different sections?

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