Building a Culture of Achievement: Classroom Management

Presented by: Andrea Aldrich, Dan Chisholm, Traci Cormier, Ashley Hamilton, and Chris Matheson

Goals TakeawaysSelf Management1st Grade Perspective—Mrs. Hart4th Grade Perspective—Mr. ChisholmIAF Student—Miss Ashley HamiltonIAF Director—Ms. Traci CormierConclusion and Questions

Our Agenda

Create a sense of teamLearn from one anotherAdd to your toolbox

Goals for today

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”---Aristotle

Manage yourself, manage your classroomRedirect with respectEffective classroom management is a choiceLearn outside the boxRelationships are everything

Key Takeaways

“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”---Tyron Edwards

Lesson PlansProceduresClassroomManage Yourself

Self-Management

“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”---Plato

Two weeks ahead of the classEngaging and entertainingDifferentiated“If he is not excited to teach it, how am I supposed to be excited to learn it?”—IAF Student

Self-Management: Lesson Plans

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”---Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have a plan for everythingTeachPracticeCommunicatePerform periodic post-mortems

Self-Management: Procedures

“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.”--Clint Eastwood

Everything on purposeClassroom proceduresSupply bucket/areaReflection corner/area

Self-Management: Classroom

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.”---Goethe

Your triggersYour expectationsYour consistency

Self-Management: Manage Yourself

“Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.”---Louis Binstock

Bell workPolicies and proceduresAttention gettersCreating a sense of urgencyPriorities

1st Grade Perspective: Mrs. Andrea Hart

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”---Horace Mann

The importance of relationshipsCommunicationWork the roomManagement as a learned set of behaviors

4th Grade Perspective: Mr. Dan Chisholm

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”---Carol Buchner

Kindergarten5th GradeHigh School

A Student’s Point of View: Miss Ashley Hamilton

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible—and achieve it generation after generation.”---Pearl S. Buck

The first year at IAFCharacteristics of a good classroom manager

A Director’s Perspective: Ms. Traci Cormier

Key takeawaysYour shared vision for AIAFollow the process

Conclusion and Questions

“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”---Benjamin Disraeli