1. Are you Withit in the Classroom?
By Robert L. Goetsch
MAT 6318 Fall 2001
Withitness
Are you Withit in the Classroom? ?!
Stop! Hi ?

2. What is Withitness?

3. Knowing Everything That’s Going on in your Classroom.
Your Students
Your Environment
Your Classroom Management
Dangers and Liabilities

4. Jacob S. Kounin’s Discipline Model
Withitness
Ripple Effect
Overlapping
Class Management
Satiation
Transitions
Group Alerting

5. Ripple Effect

6. Ripple Effect A Chain Reaction Correcting the misbehavior
Early in the year
Be firm and confident
Positive
Negative

7. Withitness
Awareness of what’s going on in all parts of the classroom at all times.
“Having eyes in the back of the head.”
Students know that your watching them like a hawk.
Keeping your "back to the wall“.
Timing

8. Overlapping

9. Overlapping
Overlapping is attending to two or more events at the same time.
Working multiple stations or groups.
Students tend to stay on task.

10. Transitions Smoothness and effectiveness. Focusing on key points.
Time management.
Well-established routines.
Consistent signals.

11. Group Alerting The ability to keep groups focused on the task.
Maximizes active participation and keeps students engaged in learning.
Holding students be accountable.
Check for understanding.
Call on students randomly.

12. Satiation Maintaining Interest and Involvement.
Providing students with a feeling of progress.
Offering students challenges throughout the lesson.
Being enthusiastic.
Using a variety of teaching styles.

13. Think of the following points:
Planning
Preparing
Anticipating
Seeing where pupils need help.
Scanning
Dividing up your time
Sensing

14. References:
Are You With It, by Deb Wuest, Learning Environment article, April1999,
Kounin, J. (1977). Discipline and group management in classrooms. New York:
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 6/25/2001,
Ale Favela,
EDF 312: Classroom Management, Kentucky Christian College, Dr. Darrel W. Fyffe, 6/25/2001,
Thomas H. Allen, Ph.D., DEVELOPING A DISCIPLINE PLAN FOR YOU, 6/25/2001
What We Know About Managing Classrooms, Carolyn M. Evertson, Alene H. Harris, 6/23/2001
Schoolwide and Classroom Disciplin, Kathleen Cotton
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