Managing Student Behavior
Component 2d of Danielson's Framework entails being to monitor and manage the behavior of students in your class. There are 3 aspects: expectations, monitoring of student behavior, and response to misbehavior. As a teacher you want to create an atmosphere geared towards productivity and respectable, without being authoritarian in nature. The expectations should be clear and attainable for all students; even when students' behavior is being corrected, their should still be an atmosphere of respect. By setting expectations, we give them boundaries and clear distinguishment from right and wrong. This is beneficial not for just them as students but as people in society as well. Teachers should also be able to monitor the students' behavior at all times. They know not only when things are escalating but how to redirect the students back to something more productive. The teacher should also be able to properly respond to student misbehavior and recognize why the students act the way they do. It is really important when doing this that if correction is needing we are not simply just punishing but disciplining. If we just punish, the student does not learn or grow from that; discipline allows us to correct them in a positive way so that they understand what they can and cannot do. It is key that a teacher be skilled in these so that they are able to prepare their students for society and success in the best way possible. There are so many different classroom strategies out there, so use the internet to find some helpful ones, like "Give me Five", or "If you can hear my voice, clap once...". Some other tricks are using token economies and student-generated "Classroom Constitution"; with the classroom constitution, it is really important that the students generate the rules because they made it so they feel apart of it and it will mean more to them. All of these little tricks and tools make for the best ways to manage and engage students.
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- Danielson Group » The Framework. (2017). Danielsongroup.org. Retrieved 30 November 2017, from http://www.danielsongroup.org/framework/