Assignment:
What role do you think cooperative learning groups or collaborative learning opportunities have on helping students develop character and interpersonal skills?
At what point, do you allow for students to take ownership of their own learning both within and outside of learning groups? What has been the outcome of that and has it impacted your classroom management style?
1. Describe your current classroom management style and how it affects the management of diverse learners.
2. Describe a classroom management practice to change and describe the desired effects of the change in detail.
3. Propose an immediate implementation plan that targets a specific change in classroom management
4. Develop a script to introduce and approach this management change with students that includes specific, age-appropriate details.
5. Describe a way to measure changes in the classroom climate based on specific changes in instructor behaviors.
Reference
Shindler, J. (2010). Transformative classroom management: Positive strategies to engage all students and promote a psychology of success. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.