Classroom management and learners diversity

 Class control  Dealing with misbehavior and disciplining students Classroom management

 Classroom management is locally constructed.  Breen (2001) defined classroom managing as both initiating and responding to ongoing events, with an awareness that all classroom participants have individual and collective sociocultural “history”, as we work in a social group and create a new history and culture. Sociocultural theory and researches

 Time & Space  Engagement  participation Elements of Classroom management

Two sets of influences

 Intellectual and professional  1. postmethod era----communicative methodology  2. the second language classroom being a major research site----behavioral to constructivist view of learning  3. Knowledge of second language teacher education has widened and deepened, including teacher preparation and professional development----teacher trained in the practices of reflection

 1. Dealing with pedagogic change  2. Working with diverse student populations  3. Absorbing technology change  4. Managing the professional domain: Accountable, the complexities of classroom life  5. Learning classroom management Contemporary issues in managing language classrooms

 Managing classrooms is always arguable, complex, and problematical today than it ever has been.