What should teachers do to be good managers?

1. Domingos Di Lello

2. Goal:
To share ideas about how to establish and
maintain a classroom in which the amount
of time the students spend actively
engaged in learning is maximized, while
disruptions are minimized.

3. Gabriel, a nine-year-old student,
has been having behavior
problems in class.
He’s frequently leaving his seat to
talk to or bother his peers.
He refuses to follow directions and
always engages in power struggles
with his teacher.
His academic performance is
below average.

4. Maria is a children’s teacher.
She’s concerned about the
general state of chaos in her
classroom.
The students seem uninterested
and disengaged.
She’s searching for answers to
improve the behavior.

5. An effective teacher is
a good manager of ...
What do you think?

6. An effective teacher
is a good manager of
...
time activities transitions
conflict atmosphere emotions
behavior L1 use

7. Physical layout
Instructional strategies
Interaction with curriculum
Preventing Misbehavior:

8. How does the seating arrangement promote or inhibit your
interaction with the class?
Food for Thought:
How does the seating arrangement promote or inhibit
interaction of the students with each other?
How are your lessons introduced?
Do you capture and keep student attention with humor
and enthusiasm?

9. Does the pace of your lesson provide appropriate
challenge for all students?
Are there smooth transitions between activities?
Is the assignment you propose appropriately challenging?
How do you monitor the extent to which assignments are
understood?
Do you explain your rules and expectations to your students?
Are you consistent with the rules your students are
supposed to follow?

10. Strategies for Preventing Behavioral Escalation
- Develop engaging instructional activities
- Make rules and procedures clear
- Generate meaningful tasks
- Use humor and enthusiasm
- Clear your throat immediately following the misbehavior
without looking at the student
- Change tone, inflection, and volume of your voice
- Make eye contact
- Resort to “withitness” and “overlapping”
- Proximity, place light hand on shoulder
- Praise appropriate behavior

11. American Psychological Association, Practical
Classroom Management, 2013
References
Teaching Young Learners English: From Theory to
Practice, Joan Shin & JoAnn Crandall, 2014
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