Managing the

21 Century
st

Classroom
OBJECTIVES:
Discuss the underlying paradigm
shifts in the classroom
management.
Share ideas on how to cope up with
different situations in the 21st
century classroom.
Appreciate the importance of
classroom management to ensure
effective, meaningful and
memorable learning process.
The True Picture of Todays Learners
Good classroom management is a key
factor in teachers professional life. It
helps to maintain congenial and
positive learning environment in the
class. It also helps to set standard
procedures and rules to carry out in
day-to-day teaching effectively and
smoothly. This subsequently helps
the students to learn skills which they
need in the adult world.
 Remember !
Classroom management makes you
swim or sink!
Teaching involves..
Instruction
Assessment
Classroom management
Professional responsibility

The instruction, teaching, and curriculum

would fall in the right place if classroom
management is appropriate.
What does classroom
management consist?
Address the challenges of the
students
Teachers and students
successfully working together
Teacher knows and is confident in
monitoring students
Paradigm shifts in classroom
management
Focus: Focus: what
memorization students Know,
of discrete Can Do and Are
facts Like after all
the details are
forgotten.
Textbook- Research-
driven driven
Paradigm shifts in classroom
management
Learners work in Learners work
isolation collaboratively with
classroom within 4 classmates and
walls others around the
world the Global
Classroom
Teacher-centered: Learner-centered:
teacher is center of teacher is
attention and facilitator/coach
provider of
information
Paradigm shifts in classroom
management
Discipline No discipline problems
problems students and teachers have
educators do not mutually respectful
trust students and relationship as co-learners;
vice versa. No students are highly
student motivation. motivated.
Teacher is judge. Self, Peer and Other
No one else sees assessments. Public
student work. audience, authentic
assessments.
Low expectations High expectations If it
isnt good it isnt done.
We expect, and ensure,
that all students succeed in
Paradigm shifts in classroom
management
Print is the Performances,
primary projects and
vehicle of multiple forms of
learning and media are used for
assessment. learning and
assessment
Diversity in Curriculum and
students is instruction address
ignored. student diversity
Classroom should be able to
develop 21st century skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Collaboration across Networks and Leading
by Influence
Agility and Adaptability
Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
Effective Oral and Written Communication
Accessing and Analyzing Information
Curiosity and Imagination
Video: Cell Phones in the Classroom Learning Tools for
the 21st Century
Case A

Teacher X gave a Mathematical

exercise for students to work.
After 20 minutes (the class runs
for 40 minutes), Student A was
seen not to be doing the exercise.
Student A is commenting that the
activity given by the teacher is
boring.
What will you do?
Case B

While you are lecturing about the

parts of the Excel window, you
saw that some students are
passing around a paper and each
one is giggling. You took the
paper and you saw that it is a
drawing of you (which looks
grotesque!).
What will you do?
Case C

You are handling 50 students in the

computer lab. Every time you give the
procedure what to click using
paintbrush, the students would not
listen and gets in advance to what
you are teaching, they are already
doing other things and not following
your instructions.
What will you do?
 Action/Strategies for good classroom
Management
Use assertive body language
Use appropriate tone of voice
Persisting until the appropriate behavior occurs
Establishing clear learning goals
Providing flexible learning goals
Talking informally with students before, during
and after class about their interests
Greeting students outside of school
Be innovative while setting your class
cont
 Allow and encourage ALL students to be part
of classroom discussions
Provide appropriate wait time.
Emphasize right parts of wrong answers
Encourage collaboration
Restate or rephrase the question
Give hints or clues
Provide the answer and ask for elaboration
Use humor
Develop a set of written expectations you
can live with and enforce.
cont..
 Be consistent. Be consistent. Be
consistent.
Be patient with yourself and with your
students.
Make parents your allies. Call early and
often. Use the word "concerned."
When communicating a concern, be
specific and descriptive.
Don't talk too much. Use the first 15
minutes of class for lectures or
presentations, then get the kids working.
Break the class period into two or three
different activities. Be sure each activity
segues smoothly into the next.
Make eye contact by scanning the entire
class while you speak.
More tips
Set the place for learning.
Have physical presence inside the classroom.
Spend the early parts of the year teaching
your students about routines, rules, and
procedures.
Plan ahead to avoid disruptions
Treating misbehavior:
Is it calm, is it polite, is it fairly unobtrusive,
does it treat the kids with dignity?
Model the behavior you want from your
students
 The Donts of Classroom
Management
Do not publicly discipline a student as this
will lead more off task behaviors.

Do not lose control of your emotions as they

will learn what buttons of yours to push.

Only refer students with disciplinary referrals

for major infractions as you are handing over
your problem to someone else.
 We must always choose to
respond professionally rather
than react personally.
From The First 60 Days of Teaching by
Robert L. DeBruyn
Video: Even Eagles Need a Push
Reflection
Never forget the power of one
person to make a difference in the
life of a child.