FRHD 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Attention Span, Peer Pressure, Conduct Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2110
• Professor: Triciavan Rhijn

Document Summary

Academic success is dependant on their learning environments. Primary goal of classroom management is to provide all students with optimum opportunities for learning. Classroom management: actions taken to create and maintain a learning environment conducive to successful instruction. Moving classroom around, establishing rules and procedures, maintaining students attention. Student socialization: actions taken to influence personal or social attitudes, beliefs or behaviours including the articulation of ideals, communication of expectations, and the modeling, teaching and reinforcing of desirable personal attributes and behaviours. Disciplinary interventions: actions taken to elicit or compel improved behaviour from students who fail to conform to expectations, especially when the behaviour disrupts management system. Problematic student can undermine well designed and creative lessons. Preparing lessons that go nowhere, falling behind a tight teaching schedule, feeling emotionally drained takes away from joy of teaching. Effective classroom management or a lack of is seen as an educational problem by the public.