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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.

“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.

“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

“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 of the benefits of nonverbal communication

“Reflective Classroom Management” • Good music teaching and good management overlap. • 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

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. Teaching Music . Apr2001, Vol. 8 Issue 5, p46-51.