Does a teacher training program cover courses on managing classroom behaviour?

The teacher training program is giving individuals training who would like to make their careers in the profession of teaching.
In the education system, teachers play a very integral part. Also for the student’s development and growth a great teacher plays a very important role. So, how does one become a great teacher? A good teacher training program helps the teachers teach different skills and strategies making them an effective teacher.

In order to attain the teaching goals, effective teachers should act as effective classroom managers. Children and students’ needs are at the heart of the teaching process if the classroom management is successful. For most talented teachers, effective classroom management strategies and skills are important so that learning is effective because misbehaviour and chaos act as a hindrance towards it. Classroom management is imperative for the following reasons:

1. Helps foster social and emotional growth and improving meaningful academic learning
2. Reduces negative classroom and increases students' academic engagement
3. Creating an orderly learning environment in the classroom

Taking part in a teacher training program including topics on effective classroom management, will help you learn how to include reflective moments and peer-education in your teaching practice in order to monitor and improve motivation and classroom behaviours. At the end of the teacher training program, you will be able to implement latest practices including the Flipped Classroom approach and set up a classroom structure based on a positive, motivated engaging and safe learning environment in order to improve your classroom management and teaching skills and ease your tasks in the classroom.

Below are 10 strategies that can help to improve classroom management and build positive environment for learning and more teaching:

1. Model ideal behaviour
Studies show that students learn by modelling hence, it is important to demonstrate behaviour you want to see in them. How can this be done? It can be achieved by holding a mock conversation with another teacher or student helper in front of the class. Talking about a test or other relatable topic, be sure to:

• Maintain eye contact
• Use polite language
• Let one another speak uninterrupted
• Raise concerns about one another’s statements in a respectful manner

After, start a class discussion to list and expand upon the ideal behaviours you exemplified.

2. Help the students to establish guidelines
While making the classroom rules take the help and agreement of the students so that they follow the rules.

3. Document rules
It is easy for the rules to be forgotten, hence it is important to document the rules so that they are followed.
You can include them in the student handbook, bulletin board, etc. so that it acts as a good recollection of the rules.

4. Offer praise
It is observed that academic and behavioural performances improve by praising students for jobs well done. On doing this it helps students’ self-esteem, also reinforces values and rules you want to see
Most importantly, it encourages students to repeat positive behaviour. Not to mention, you’ll motivate other students to do the same.

5. Give tangible rewards
Another behaviour and motivational reinforcement technique is giving specific rewards at the end of each lesson, in front of the class. For eg.: During the session, students listen actively at the end of the session to give them a star. This way others can learn, say aloud what each student did to earn the tickets. End of the week, they can submit their stars and get the chance of choosing a game for the next party or so.

6. Make positive letters
Keeping students happy outside of class by making a phone call or sending a compliment home by pleasantly surprising their parents can make the students happy and wanting to continue the behaviour.

7. Build excitement in lesson plans
This one works at all grade level, start lessons by previewing particularly-exciting parts, hooking student interest from the get-go. The agenda of this classroom management technique is to immediately interest students in your goal and thereby dissuade misbehaviour. With these benefits, students may actually look forward to taking on new projects.
 
8. Use Educational technology tools that adjusts to each student
Give students who are struggling use educational technology that adapts to their requirements. There are many games and platforms that use adaptive learning principles to detect a given student’s skill deficits, serving them content to help overcome them.

9. Address off-task or inappropriate behaviour quickly
Sometimes we avoid or hesitate when you must address inappropriate or off-task behaviour. We need to keep in mind to talk to the student in private when a student breaks a documented rule.

10. Peer teaching
Peer teaching does wonders to high and underachievers. Using this strategy in classroom management, makes your top performers engage and educate disruptive and struggling students.

Students suffering from low confidence, peer teaching activities, such as pairing students together as reading buddies can be beneficial.
If these strategies work especially well for individual students, you should see similar success by using them as class-wide student management techniques.

There are a lot of teacher training programmes that focus on classroom management. One such course is Advanced Certificate Course in Developing Teaching Competencies offered by Aditya Birla Education Academy. Joining a good teacher training programme from recognised institutes helps to improve classroom management.
 
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