AVReading Newsletter November Managing the Details
To continue our focus on classroom strategies for the year, this month’s newsletter will focus on managing the details of class. Historically, we have called these “classroom management” strategies and practices, but my thinking has changed a little over time. For starters, I am no longer really working to get absolute control over a class, to manage all of their choices and behaviors. Instead, my objectives are to first, create conditions within the classroom where they are interested and engaged versus compliant; and second, create conditions where students learn to manage their own behaviors versus having me do it for them. So in this context, “managing the details of the class” is more about the practices and structures we can employ to create those optimal learning conditions. Door Greeting In terms of perhaps the easiest, most powerful practice a teacher can employ, I would su...