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Classroom Management Four Resources Five Half Truths About Classroom Management You have to be a good manager before you can be a good teacher. Good management and good teaching are mutually reinforcing elements. Different

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Classroom Management

Four Resources

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“Five Half Truths About Classroom Management”

You have to be a good manager before you can be a

good teacher. – Good management and good teaching are mutually reinforcing elements.

Different things work for different people. – Common

denominator among all effective managers is a “mental set” of with-it-ness and healthy emotional objectivity

Managing student behavior just boils down to clearly

communicating and consistently enforcing boundaries. – Not all students have the social and behavioral skills to consider actions and consequences.

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“Five Half-Truths” cont.

It’s all about relationship. – Relationships are

critical, but not always sufficient.

Not much can be done with changing the

behavior of kids who aren’t taught to act right at home. – In some cases, it is not that the child has not been taught “right”, but that they have been taught differently.

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“Classroom Management: It’s More than a Bag of Tricks”

Addresses the narrow, misguided view that good

management has as its foundation an extrinsic reward system. This equates successful management with nothing more than bribery.

Classroom management can be taught, and it is

more than a bag of tricks. It is “a thoughtful and purposeful process consisting of actions teachers take to create an environment conducive to learning”

List of strategies for effective management

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“Nonverbal Communication: Implications for the Global Music Classroom”

Explores the idea of using nonverbals to

communicate with students and direct a classroom

Used especially in context of diverse, multi-

cultural classrooms

Offers ideas for developing gestures to use

and ways to implement them, as well as some

f the benefits of nonverbal communication

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“Reflective Classroom Management”

Good music teaching and good management
verlap.
Good management can be achieved through the

reflective approach, which consists of advanced planning, organization, and anticipation of problems.

Emphasis is on examining your own practice and

finding things to change and ways to grow.

List of reflective questions dealing with

perception, creativity, and setting a good example

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Resources

“Five Half-Truths about Classroom Management”.

Englehart, Joshua M. The Clearing House, 85: 70–73, 2012

“Classroom Management: It’s More than a Bag of Tricks”.

Garrett, Tracy. NJEA Review, May 2013: 45-49

“Nonverbal Communication: Implications for the Global

Music Classroom”. Battersby, Sharon L. and Bolton, Jami. Music Educators Journal. Jun2013, Vol. 99 Issue 4, p57- 62.

“Reflective Classroom Management”. Woody, Robert H.