Erika Daniels, Ed.D EDMI 512, Middle Level Education California State University, San Marcos

 Find your _______ partner and discuss the following statements.  What is meant by the term “class management?”  Describe a time when you experienced, either as a teacher or a student, a class that was not learning because of poor management techniques used by the teacher. What was he/she doing or not doing?  Describe effective methods you have observed teachers using.

Adolescents want to become independent. They need opportunities to make their own choices and to experience the consequences of those decisions. Relationships with trusted adults have a profound impact on their ability to do that.

With your _______ partner:  Discuss what this lesson means through the perspective of a young adolescent. Why might the students feel this way?  Identify examples from CPI and your other experiences of this lesson in action.  Brainstorm ways you might operationalize this lesson in your own practice.

Relevance matters. Students need to have a reason (direct or indirect) to engage, but they do believe in the value of school. With many stressors pulling on them, adolescents need to be taught how to meet widely varying expectations and to manage their time productively.

With your _______ partner:  Discuss what this lesson means through the perspective of a young adolescent. Why might the students feel this way?  Identify examples from CPI and your other experiences of this lesson in action.  Brainstorm ways you might operationalize this lesson in your own practice.

Adolescents want and need opportunities to construct their own meaning through active learning experiences.

We will discuss lesson #3 more thoroughly during our session on effective teaching strategies. For now With your neighbor, discuss how this lesson along with the maxim that “a good class management plan is a good lesson plan” influences students’ behavioral choices.

 Procedures, room arrangement, interactions  Grouping Strategies  Physical Classroom Environment  Activities for learning that are engaging and designed at the appropriate levels for students  A variety of instructional approaches and strategies  Creating a safe space to take risks with learning  Bathroom policy, pencil sharpening, etc  Managing transitions  Building relationships—teacher/student

Your team will be given a description of a middle school class and teaching scenario.  Your challenge is to:  Decide on a seating chart (will you assign seats—if so how? Or will the students choose their own?).  Sketch out the physical organization of tables and chairs.  Describe how the norms/agreements/rules were created and what they are  Describe your policies and procedures for bathroom visits, late work, transitions, etc.  Respond to your given scenario. You will present your response to the class in any form you choose.

 Using the decisions your team made during the challenge, your experiences in CPI, your observations in CPII, and all of your learning thus far in the program Work on the class management assignment for EDMI 512.