I made two classroom management videos with the program GoAnimate. The first video is an example of poor classroom management; the second video shows a better way that the teacher could have handled the situation. Since I do not have a subscription to GoAnimate I could not upload the videos to Youtube or Vimeo so I have linked the url for the videos below:
1. Classroom Management-Negative
2. Classroom Management-Positive
The first video shows an example of poor classroom management. The teacher called out Mike in front of the whole class and insulted him. In his insults he compares Mike to his brother as well as insinuates that he does not expect much from Mike because he behaves poorly on a daily basis.According to Woolfolk their are some convergences (principles that apply to all people) of learning (pg. 227, 11th edition). One of those convergences is that teachers respond to inappropriate behavior in a way that reinforces attention to the situation. Mr. Scott directed negative attention towards the behavior of Mike. Instead of negatively pointing out Mike's behavior maybe have a behavioral chart that only Mr. Scott and Mike know about rewarding Mike with points/gold ticket when he has a day where he demonstrates positive behavior. It is also never ok to compare a student to another student although Mr.Scott might feel that Mike's brother Tim was a better behaved student he should never let Mike know.
The second video shows an example of positive classroom management. The teacher did not singularly call out Mike for his inappropriate behavior but simply gave attention to the positive behavior of students. In this video I wanted to demonstrate the teacher using positive behavior supports. According to Woolfolk when schools use positive behavior supports the disciplinary referrals decreases for all students (pg. 219). Mr.Scott reinforced the positive behavior of students by telling them what they were doing right as well as giving them a reward for their positive behavior. In response Mike immediately changed his behavior to match his classmates in order to show Mr.Scott that he was ready to learn and earn a gold ticket. The gold tickets are an incentive for positive behavior and when they are redeemed students receive a prize. Woolfolk also says that research on PBS has largely been good.
Gabrielle,
ReplyDeleteYour video demonstrations using GoAnimate were good. I like that the better way to handle the situation was to use a token reinforcement system (Woolfolk, 265). It was a discrete way to have Mike cooperate and check his behavior. I dislike when teachers compare students to their siblings, I feel it is wrong. Some students will set theirselves up for failure thinking they can never be like big brother, Tim, or big sister, Sally.
You point out correctly that teachers should not compare students to their siblings, even if it is to compliment the student. I like how your videos also pointed out calling attention to positive behavior instead of highlighting the negative behavior. In one school where I taught, we always used the phrase "Accentuate the positive," which became our focus for that year. I thought it worked much better than a focus on what not to do and the punishments connected with those activities.
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