BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT
A key component in teaching is understanding your students and using correct behavior management skills to operate a smooth classroom. It is undoubtedly one of the trickiest things to get right. Below you will find the behavior management style I will use in my classroom.
Education Theorists
Vygotsky
Students have a Zone of Proximal Development similar to goldielocks where the content can be learned.
Skinner
Using positive reinforcement is a good method to get students to use the behavior you want to see.
Piaget
There are stages of cognitive development that teach us how students learn at specific ages.
Love & Logic
high warmth
authoritative
permissive
high demand
low demand
authoritarian
rejecting
low warmth
Rarely do we want to use negative reinforcement in our classroom. Using it wrongly can dramatically change our students' behavior in a negative way. We can lose our students' trust and make them feel unsafe in the classroom. With Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs we understand that students need to feel safe, supported, and loved before they can start to learn and grow in a classroom. So if we break their trust and lash out then students won't be able to learn as well.
Love and logic is about using positive reinforcement in a clever way to manage student behavior. The most important part of this behavior management style is creating a strong relationship with your students and their families/guardians. When students have a relationship with their teacher then they are more likely to learn.
The second part of this strategy is the 'logic' aspect. This is about using logical methods to control behavior with positive reinforcement and logical consequences. You reward the good behaviors with positive reinforcement. When a student is showing a behavior you don't want to see, you use a logical consequence to redirect the behavior.
