CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

OBJECTIVES:

To explain the meaning and importance of classroom management.

To take care of routine factors in the classroom.

To direct and control the learning process by providing the proper learning situation.

To explain how to maintain desirable classroom discipline.

Aspects of Classroom

Management

Lightning The teacher cannot change the

location of the windows or the chalkboards, but he can do something to improve the lightning of the room.

The principal problem is to direct the light toward the pupil’s work are so that glare and shadows are avoided.

Care of Routine The classroom in itself is a society

and needs its own rules and regulations to keep peace and harmony within it.

Directing and Controlling Learning One aspect of classroom

management deals with the guidance and direction of learning processes. The teacher who takes full charge of a learning situation should the manipulate the learner.

Discipline The other big aspect of classroom

management has to do with proper conduct of pupils in the classroom.

Process or result of directing or subordinating immediate wishes, impulses, desires, or interest for the sake of an ideal or for the purpose of gaining more effective dependable action.

FACILITATING LEARNING

Step 1

Observe a class

Step 2

Using a checklist, find

out the evident classroom

componentsStep 3

Describe how the classroom is

structured/ designed to

allow everyone to participate in

the learning activities

Step 4

Relate the data in your checklist to

the learner’s behavior

Step 5

Reflect on how classroom

management affects learning