Off Class - Try This: Classroom Management K-6

Kathryn Bellach suggests approaches to improve your classroom management... The mood in your class is set by your behaviour. If you are welcoming, encouraging and positive, the classroom will be too. • Explicitly teach behaviour. • Create a welcoming environment. • Be consistent and fair. • Make students feel part of the ‘class team’. • Work as part of a school team. • Your class are not your responsibility alone. • Focus on correcting one behaviour at a time. • Prepare students for different settings. • Make the room your own. • Consider an individual behaviour plan. • Plan around student interests. For information about Off Class contributors, takeaway notes and graphic summary, as well as the CPL Podcast, Journal of Professional Learning articles and Centre for Professional Learning courses, please visit our website www.cpl.asn.au