Classroom Managment

Which of the following statements best summarizes classroom management challenges today?

Behavior problems challenge all teachers, regardless of the school, grade level, or geographic location.

Which of the following is true about bullying?

Bullying can include direct methods (e.g., teasing, taunting, and hitting) and also indirect methods (e.g., social isolation through exclusion).

Which is an important aspect of Responsive Classroom?

Communicating with parents and realizing the need to establish positive partnerships between educators and the families of students

What statement best summarizes Linda Albert's position on influence and control?

Linda Albert encourages teachers to influence the behavior of individual students.

Select the most accurate description of Marshall's opinion of competition.

Marshall supports competition for extracurricular activities, but he thinks classroom competition is counterproductive.

When educators impose zero-tolerance policies, post strict rules and demand immediate obedience:

students are more prone to test the limits and misbehave.

When teachers make and enforce the rules and consequences:

students do not feel a sense of responsibility and no longer feel or have any ownership in class decisions.

Freedom, to Gathercoal, means:

students do not have license to do as they please. It means they have freedom to think and act on behalf of their own self-interests, but only if those individual interests are balanced with the welfare needs of other members of the larger community. d. about the same as Charles Silberman's book during the 1960s about allowing students freedom to learn and express themselves.

When teachers see bullying occurring, the best approach it to:

take immediate action in private so the bully might not see his (or her) status enhanced in front of peers.

One Responsive Classroom practice is the Morning Meeting. This is a daily class meeting that:

provides time for sharing, planning, and participating in group activities and begins the day on a positive note.

Natural consequences involve:

real-world consequences or interventions and deal with the reality of the situation rather than the power and control of the adult.

Marshall's Discipline without Stress is based upon three core principles of positivity, choice, and:

reflection.

The ecological models also show respect for all students. For example, although a problem might occur with developmental differences (e.g., students in elementary school might be affected by Kounin's ________ effect, but middle and secondary students might not be affected as much), no cultural or gender differences (or social class differences) appear to exist that would be affected or that would affect Kounin's prescribed instructional behaviors.

ripple

Some people maintained that factors such as lack of caring in schools, school overcrowding, and student alienation contribute to school violence. These are:

school-based risk factors.

Gordon believes teachers need to insist upon students engaging in ________ rather than yelling, screaming, and punishing students to no avail.

self-discipline

According to Marshall, the ultimate goal of discipline is:

self-discipline.

Everyone has seen and heard of acts of violence in schools, but these problems are not encountered on a daily basis by most educators. Instead, most misbehavior includes students:

sitting idly or talking with friends, disturbing neighbors who want to learn and obey rules, and walking around the classroom without permission.

If a student has lost his or her self-control, a teacher steps in with ________ to help the student regain control.

situational assistance

Curwin and Mendler maintained that ________ ________ are one of the most effective means for teachers to take charge of their classrooms and still give students a voice in class decisions.

social contracts

Project ACHIEVE and its Stop and Think social skills process emphasizes teaching:

social skills.

As a school-based program, Project ACHIEVE focuses on ________ development to prepare all school employees to "address the immediate and long-term academic and behavioral needs of all students."

staff development

Concerning rules, Curwin and Mendler proposed that teachers:

explain all rules to students, so they will better understand the reasons for the rules.

The year before the Project Achieve actually begins, an Advisory Board plans the implementation and:

- The members of the Advisory Board present an overview of the requirements of the plan to the educators in the school. - 80% of the faculty and staff must vote to accept the plan in order to implement it. - With that approval, a variety of teams (e.g., school climate team, grade-level leaders, pupil personnel support team) are established, baseline data are collected, and a data management system is established. ALL OF THE ABOVE

Which of the following is true about Linda Albert's position of parenting?

-Teachers should talk to parents to inspire parents' cooperation. -Teachers should keep complaints to a minimum by selecting examples of misbehavior rather than naming a student's every transgression. -Teachers should avoid predictions of future failures and should never make parents think their child is incorrigible or unable to succeed in school. ALL OF THE ABOVE

Regarding self-discipline, Freiberg thought:

An entire school must develop a continuity of actions and expectations for staff, teachers, and students; and must be committed to giving students consistent messages about self-discipline.

Albert's model of discipline most closely relates to:

Dreikurs.

________ management models build on the ideas of social and emotional learning (SEL).

Ecological

There are several themes that are common to all of the community approaches to classroom management. One includes:

Educators take a positive developmental view of students and work with them instead of trying to control them.

Includes rejecting, terrorizing, extorting, humiliating, blackmailing, and rating/ranking of personal characteristics such as race, disability, ethnicity, disability, and perceived sexual orientation. This bullying is best called:

Emotional bullying

Which is the best statement about Coloroso's Inner Discipline?

Her theory holds that teaching discipline and behavior management are similar and can be packaged as a complete model.

Open Circle, another research validated program for ________, relies on the use of the "Open Circle format in which students and teacher arrange their chairs in a circle and keep one chair empty to symbolize that the circle is open to anyone."

K-5 students

Many models and theories of classroom management were designed to be used by individual teachers in their own classrooms.

Sometimes, however, the discipline problems extend outside a single classroom.

Which of the following is a genuine incentive to motivate the whole class to work?

Students will get five minutes at the end of class to play a learning game.

One management technique advocated by Redl and Wattenberg is:

Supporting self-control which is based on the belief that individuals control their own conduct, and that much misbehavior results from a temporary lapse of an individual's control system rather than from a motivation to be disagreeable.

What is Coloroso's opinion of rewards?

Teachers should not rely on rewards to promote positive behavior - rewards send the message that kindness and positive behavior can be bought and bartered.

Although Skinner did not teach, one can safely assume that he would have believed:

The goal is to provide an environment in which the students know what is expected and feel physically and psychologically safe.

Skinner advocated a managed environment such as his "baby box." Which is the best implication for elementary and secondary educators?

The teacher can manage the class environment by mandating strict rules, expectations, and consequences.

What does Gordon mean by "I-messages?"

The teacher should say "I" rather than "You", e.g., instead of saying, "You dropped your books again!" the teacher should say, "I am annoyed when someone drops her or his books."

Like other behavioral models of classroom management, ________ relies on teachers to establish rules and routines, discuss inappropriate behaviors with students, identify and model acceptable behaviors and misbehaviors, and provide corrective feedback to students.

Think Time™

Which is the best statement you can make about zero tolerance?

Unfortunately, zero tolerance has been viewed by some as a "cure-all" for school violence.

Discipline with Dignity reflects:

a responsibility model rather than an obedience model.

The Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) has developed:

a set of standards which identify the needed knowledge, skills, and attitudes of all educators, especially beginning teachers.

Characteristics of a school with a sense of caring community include:

a strong sense and commitment of the school administration that supports teachers and the adopted classroom management model.

Lee Canter and Marlene Canter proposed that teachers should:

accept that students and teachers have rights in the class, yet teachers should assertively manage the classroom.

Communicating ________ and understanding is a complex art that often is made more difficult by classroom conditions.

acceptance

Students who behave as citizens are:

active decision makers who feel they are an integral part of the classroom.

To implement PBS, a school must have the support of its ________ who are willing to commit both time and money to the plan.

administration

Because Responsive Classrooms is designed as a whole school model:

administrators support teacher collaboration.

Lions Quest focuses on skills for growing, ________, and action.

adolescents

One key to organizing and managing classrooms for effective instruction is:

advance preparation and planning from the first day of school.

A key point of Evertson's and Harris' Classroom Management and Organization is:

advance preparation.

"We do not ask questions without permission - you must raise your hand." This statement is:

an example of an assertive statement.

According to Kounin's Instructional Management, teachers have to demonstrate:

appropriate teaching behaviors, maintain appropriate instructional momentum, work toward group focus, and plan a learning environment that is conducive to learning and behavior.

Classroom management and instruction:

are not separate entities - they must go hand-in-hand with the management plan providing the setting and support in which good instruction exists.

As with all classroom management plans, CMCD requires teachers to adopt several roles and accept several responsibilities. One role is teachers:

examine their own values regarding student behavior and behavior management, to understand how they are communicating those values to students, and to determine whether those values have meaning for the students.

Using the principles of ________, GBG is designed to reinforce self-control and a work ethic by stressing group solidarity and cooperation.

behavior modification

Coloroso talks about a teacher being a nonliving entity who restricts and controls others. This teacher is all powerful; the student is the subordinate. Gray areas do not exist because all class events are clear cut and in black and white. Coloroso is referring to a:

brickwall teacher.

Developed by the Boy Scouts of America, Learning for Life is a pre- K-12 program and integrates ________ and academics.

character development

J. Ron Nelson believed that some management practices such as:

checkmarks and repeated warnings might promote misbehaviors rather than extinguish them.

Project ACHIEVE provides training for guidance counselors, school psychologists, and elementary instructional consultants in racially diverse elementary schools with students from low socioeconomic areas. It is a ________ program whose purpose is to teach children how to manage themselves and their behavior"

cognitive-behavioral

Zero tolerance policies resulted when:

congress passed the Gun-Free School Act of 1994.

According to Marvin Marshall, teachers can:

control a student's behavior but actual change must come from within.

Johnson and Johnson proposed the three Cs - they are:

cooperation, conflict resolution, and civic values.

A number of studies of Positive Action in elementary schools found that the program:

decreased behavior problems, increased academic achievement and improved attendance while encouraging students to "demonstrate good character and engage in civic activities."

One role of the teacher in Coloroso's Inner Discipline is to:

demonstrate compassion after a student misbehaves

Behavior problems:

disturb teachers and students, negatively affect the teaching/learning process and ultimately hinder academic achievement.

Rather than advancing a model or a well-defined theory of classroom management, Alfie Kohn challenges some commonly accepted beliefs about students and discipline, and:

encourages educators to move beyond traditional concepts of classroom management.

Two aspects of safe schools that challenge educators include:

first, all classrooms face the threat of violence, and second, the goal should be for all classrooms and schools to be safe for all students and educators.

Understanding classroom management challenges is a worthwhile beginning, but the ultimate goal must be to improve student behaviors. One way to attain this goal is:

for teachers to understand the classroom management theorists and models, and then select the ideas that work for them and develop a comprehensive classroom management plan.

According to the textbook, causes of school violence include:

gang presence and activity. hate-motivated behavior. drugs ALL OF THE ABOVE

The definition of Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline: ?

has moved from a behaviorist perspective to a more behavior modification theory while using a generalist theoretical background.

The Canters asked teachers to:

help students take charge of the classroom in a firm and positive manner.

Glasser's quality school is one that:

helps students satisfy one or more psychological needs and adds quality to students' lives.

An educator's decision about classroom management should be based on:

her or his philosophical beliefs about classroom management.

Regarding four-letter words, Ginott maintained:

ignore the word - do not address the saying of the word.

Many of these SEL ecological classroom management models are complete commercial programs which are:

implemented at the school or school district level rather than by individual teachers.

In PBS, the central idea is for educations and other stakeholders to create and sustain a school environment that:

improves lifestyle results (personal health, social, family, work, recreation, etc.) for all children and youth by making problem behavior less effective, efficient and relevant and making desired behavior more functional.

Kohn views disciplinary techniques (e.g., rewards, bribes, and threat) as

instruments for controlling learners, which teachers should avoid.

Educators who want to use Gathercoal's Judicious Discipline as a framework to complement other classroom management models need to accept the philosophical foundations and basic tenets of the theory, namely that Judicious Discipline:

is based upon the U.S. Bill of Rights.

In Grandma's Rule, the reward comes:

last.

The student refuses to complete assignments during class. The teacher requires the student to do the work during breaktime. This is an example of:

logical consequences.

Supported by individuals, professional associations, and governmental agencies, the Safe Schools Movement places a priority on:

making schools safe for students and educators by focusing on the problem of violence and proposing possible remedies.

Many teachers who see the harmful effects of punishing students turn to using rewards. Kohn claims that:

manipulating student behavior with either punishment or rewards is not only unnecessary but counterproductive.

According to Kohn's views of competition in schools, it:

means some students will succeed and others will fail, thus competition should be avoided.

According to Evertson and Harris, specific student misbehaviors call for different types of interventions: minor interventions, ________ interventions, and more extensive interventions.

moderate

"Please try" suggests which response style?

nonassertive

In looking for the causes of aggressive and sometimes violent behavior, researchers have found that both parents and communities contribute to the problem because:

of their failure to help students develop appropriate social skills and by failing to model these skills.

Although developed primarily for students in grades 1 to 6, GBG has also been used successfully with:

preschoolers and secondary school students, students with special needs, and students from different cultures.

PBS is a philosophical stance that refers to the use of systems and positive interventions to "achieve socially important behavior change." Originally developed to deal with students who had severe disabilities and:

problems of violence and aggression

Carol G. Allred developed a model that:

teaches students what positive actions are and how to do them holistically by including the physical, intellectual, social and emotional domains.

Teachers adopting Democratic Teaching must commit to several beliefs. One of these beliefs is

the belief in the worth and dignity of all people.

Evertson and Harris have made several contributions to the field of classroom management. These include:

the focus on teachers' instructional behaviors and different interventions for different misbehaviors.

William Glasser's Choice Theory is based upon the belief that:

the only person whose behavior we can control is our own.

Some classroom management models and theories focus on character education, the development of social skills and social learning, a reduction in off-task behaviors, and:

the strengthening of instruction.

Two rules for Think Time include:

the student must remain silent and must respond only to the adult.

Target Behaviors are those behaviors which educators decide to address because:

they violate class or school policy or those rules that interfere with teachers teaching or students learning.

The disciplinary provisions of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) place emphasis on:

understanding why the student misbehaves.

Although all teachers might not demonstrate high levels of ________, most can learn proper desists, how to maintain an appropriate instructional momentum, and the techniques of group alerting and accountability.

withitness

Teachers talk about "Policies and Mission Statement," "Setting Expectations and Providing Training," and "Practices and Procedures" - they are probably discussing:

written intervention plans for safe schools.

A student is suspended for having a plastic knife in her lunchbox. Another student was suspended for having a toy gun on a key ring. These are examples of:

zero tolerance.