Mrs. Annapoorni Balan Principal, The National UN volunteers for Pooma Educational Trust.
Classroom management strategies for individual students:
Classroom management strategies for individual students:
16. Use Ed Tech that adjusts to each student
Give students who struggle to process your content opportunities to try educational technology that adapts to their needs.
There are many games and platforms that use adaptive learning principles to detect a given student’s skill deficits, serving him or her content to help overcome them. For example, Prodigy is a math video game that adjusts its content to help students address their trouble spots. It also offers feedback to help them solve specific mistakes, as they answer questions that use words, charts, pictures and numbers.
17. Interview students
Interview students who aren’t academically engaged or displaying prosocial behavior to learn how to better manage them.
Interview students who aren’t academically engaged or displaying prosocial behavior to learn how to better manage them.
While running learning stations or a large-group activity, pull each student aside for a few minutes. Ask about:
What helps them focusWho they work well withTheir favorite types of lessonsTheir favorite in-class activitiesWhich kinds of exercises help them remember key lesson points
Note their answers to come up with activities and approaches that engage them, thereby limiting classroom disruptions.
Note their answers to come up with activities and approaches that engage them, thereby limiting classroom disruptions.
18. Address bad behavior quickly
A teacher sits down with a misbehaving student, talking to him about his behavior as one of her classroom management strategies.
A teacher sits down with a misbehaving student, talking to him about his behavior as one of her classroom management strategies.
Avoid hesitation when you must address bad behavior, especially when a student breaks a documented rule.
Acting sooner than later will help ensure that negative feelings — whether between students or you and a student — won’t fester. Failure to act can result in more poor behavior, leading to needlessly-difficult conversations.
But keep in mind: It’s usually best to talk to the student in private. Emerging research shows that punishing students in front of peers has “limited value.”
19. Consider peer teaching
Use peer teaching as a classroom management strategy if you feel your top performers can help engage and educate disruptive and struggling students.
Use peer teaching as a classroom management strategy if you feel your top performers can help engage and educate disruptive and struggling students.
Peer teaching activities, such as pairing students together as reading buddies, can be especially beneficial for students who suffer from low confidence and poor interpersonal skills.
1. Authoritative research states tutors improve self-esteem and interpersonal skills by giving feedback.
2. Tutees/Students realize these benefits by asking questions and receiving immediate clarification.
3. A later study of at-risk students echoes these advantages. Although you should spend time teaching peer tutors how to properly communicate with tutees, you’ll likely find the benefits are worth the work.
2. Tutees/Students realize these benefits by asking questions and receiving immediate clarification.
3. A later study of at-risk students echoes these advantages. Although you should spend time teaching peer tutors how to properly communicate with tutees, you’ll likely find the benefits are worth the work.
20. Gamify personal learning plans
Young students sit smiling at a desk, using tablets to complete work.
Young students sit smiling at a desk, using tablets to complete work.
Motivate students on personal learning plans by gamifying those plans, as studies — such as recent research from South Korea — indicate this will continuously engage and incentivize them.
Consider gamification strategies such as:
Adjusting your scoring system — Give reward points (RP) — along with traditional scores — on tests and assignments, setting a goal for the student to reach a certain amount of (RP) per unit.
For example, if a student scores 60% on a quiz, give him or her 6,000(RP)You can also award (RP) for completing extra assignments, participating in class or anything else that shows effort to learn.
Using stages — Refer to topics and units as stages. The former terms have clear connotations for you, but students may not see how they fit together. If they’re good in games, they’ll understand that reaching the next stage requires overcoming precursory challenges. Emphasize this by framing certain tasks as prerequisites to reach the next learning stage.
Using stages — Refer to topics and units as stages. The former terms have clear connotations for you, but students may not see how they fit together. If they’re good in games, they’ll understand that reaching the next stage requires overcoming precursory challenges. Emphasize this by framing certain tasks as prerequisites to reach the next learning stage.
If these strategies work especially well for individual students, you should see similar success by using them as class-wide student management techniques.
Final thoughts about these classroom management strategies
These class-wide and one-on-one approaches to classroom management largely work across subjects and grade levels. Implementable without admin and parent support, they should empower you to establish an orderly — yet friendly and engaging — environment.
These class-wide and one-on-one approaches to classroom management largely work across subjects and grade levels. Implementable without admin and parent support, they should empower you to establish an orderly — yet friendly and engaging — environment.
Really very useful strategies. Thanks Ma'am 😊👍
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