Ch 17 Classroom Management

The steps teachers take to organize their classroom for optimal learning, engage students in that learning, and minimize behaviors that disrupt it.

• classroom management
• class rules
• classroom procedures
• nonverbal cues
• authoritative style

Overall guidelines that generally address major issues such as attendance and dress code. (In some districts, these are called rules, regulations, or procedures.)

• school policies
• class rules
• classroom procedures
• nonverbal cues
• authoritative style

The guidelines for student behavior specific to a class or teacher.

• classroom procedures
• class rules
• nonverbal cues
• authoritative style
• insubordination

A management style that seeks to shape students' behavior through setting high expectations, explanations, and consistent application of consequences.

• authoritative style
• class rules
• classroom procedures
• nonverbal cues
• insubordination

A management style that seeks to control students' behavior through many rules, procedures, and consequences.

• authoritarian style
• class rules
• classroom procedures
• nonverbal cues
• authoritative style

A management style that sets few expectations and rules for students and enforces them inconsistently.

• permissive style
• class rules
• classroom procedures
• nonverbal cues
• authoritative style

Specific guidelines that translate the class rules into concrete actions expected of students.

• classroom procedures
• class rules
• nonverbal cues
• authoritative style
• insubordination

Communication without words, using techniques such as eye contact, body language, gestures, and physical closeness.

• nonverbal cues
• class rules
• classroom procedures
• authoritative style
• insubordination

Disobedience to authority.

• insubordination
• class rules
• classroom procedures
• nonverbal cues
• authoritative style

The classroom environment can either support or undermine a teacher's attempts to maximize learning.

• True
• False