Classroom management
- Classroom management includes the set of activities and strategies that teachers use to guide student behavior in the classroom.
- Its goals include fostering student engagement and securing cooperation so that teaching and learning can occur.
Classroom management has both planning and interactive aspects:
- Planning aspects include such task as organizing the physical space of the classroom, identifying expectations for student behavior, developing incentives to encourage desirable behavior, arranging consequences to discourage inappropriate behavior, and organizing instructional activities to promote student involvement and engagement.
- Classroom management also includes a very interactive, real-time set of teacher behaviors and strategies, including monitoring and interacting with students; providing support and feedback; intervening to redirect student behavior; and working with students to stimulate interest, involvement, and cooperation.