Classroom Management Assignment

Week 5:

• Skim Chapter 1
• Take the quiz in chapter on and use the results to place your self on the Teacher Behavior Continuum.
• Read chapter two and select the classroom management system that best fits where you placed yourself on the continuum. From the three major groups of management systems hat best fits your quiz result, read the first page of the related section, scan the chapters and choose the chapter in that section that best fits your place on the continuum. Read that chapter very carefully thinking about how the system relates teaching, learning and schooling.
  • Rules and Consequences
    • Chapter 3 - The Behavior Analysis Model
    • Chapter 4 - Positive Discipline Model
    • Chapter 5 - Assertive Discipline Model
    • Chapter 6 - Honorable Mention
  • Confronting/Contracting
    • Chapter 7- Social Discipline Model of Dreikurs
    • Chapter 8 - Glasser
    • Chapter 9 - Judicious Discipline Model
    • Chapter 10 - Honorable Mention
  • Relationship-Listening
• Chapter 11 - Rogerian (Emotional Supportive) Model
• Chapter 12 - Honorable Mention
• The most commonly used system in schools in our area is the Assertive Discipline model (Chapter 5.) Read Chapter 5 carefully and ask if I have to use this model, can I do it humanely.
• Scan the other chapters to get the basic features of each system.

Week 7 - Read chapters 13 and 14. Bring a one page draft of your presonal system of classroom management. You will be required to put a one page statement of your classroom management system in your advancement to student teaching portfolio.

• Classroom activities
  • week 5
    • Class will start with an interanlization check on the basic features of each system of management.
    • The class will then work in groups in the case studies at the end of chapters.
  • Week 6 - Carol Minugh and a group of students will give a panel presentation related to the book Through the Eyes of the Judged.
  • Week 7 - Students will work in groups to present sceniarios based on the various management models.

More will be added later.