Proactive Classroom Management: Launch Your Classroom! Episode 45

When teachers prevent student misbehavior before it occurs, they have more time to build positive relationships and engage students in their content! In this episode of Launch Your Classroom, Kyle and the LYC Team show us how proactive management practices can strengthen your classroom community and teacher-student rapport.

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Proactive classroom management prevents student misbehavior by preventing many off-task behaviors in the first place. By planning and using effective classroom procedures, and communicating classroom expectations before there are problems, teachers can spend more time building positive relationships and less time correcting student behavior. Teachers are proactive when they build relationships beyond their students to the parents and guardians who can ally with them to help students succeed. Teachers can also drive student engagement and minimize off-task behavior by using good classroom design, like seating charts and reminder posters, and then being situationally aware as they monitor their students.

When a teacher communicates their behavior management plan with students, and sets clear expectations, they show their students that they are fair, firm, and consistent. Awareness, prevention, and strong procedures help a teacher stop problems before they require a classroom consequence. On the other hand, teachers who allow off-task behavior to go unaddressed see more student misbehavior, and often need to use negative consequences, which can result in a less positive classroom climate.

One proactive classroom management strategy is situational awareness. This is a system of classroom monitoring that helps teachers measure student engagement and prevent off-task behavior. By knowing what students are doing at all times, teachers can make the most of their instructional time since they are investing less energy in reacting to corrective student behavior. Practicing proactive classroom design, using the sight-sound-circulation method, and creating independent work color cards will help build a teacher’s situational awareness.

When teachers monitor student behavior, they need to continue focusing on instruction to maintain student motivation. Because students will still make negative choices and require consequences from time to time, teachers need to enforce the rules in their classroom management plans and administer consequences fairly and consistently. Otherwise, the teacher risks damaging student rapport by seeming biased.

1) Are there topics of conversation, behaviors, or body language that make me uncomfortable with my students? How can I modify my rules to prevent these behaviors?

2) What changes can I make that will help me feel more in control of my environment and student behaviors?

3) How can I communicate to my students, verbally and nonverbally, that I am paying attention to all of them and will respond to them fairly and consistently?

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