Thursday, October 30, 2014
The Importance of Behavioral Management
Behavioral management is a difficult teaching skill to learn while in college for teaching. In my opinion, we should begin student teaching earlier, just to prefect this skill. There also are no classes that focus on behavioral management at SNHU. There should be a group of classes devoted to how to deal with behavioral issues in the classroom and the best way to promote good behavior. In the classroom that I am currently observing in, I have found that the teacher I am working with is extremely skilled at behavioral management. She uses a card strategy. On a poster behind the door there are numbered envelopes. Each envelope has a a blue, green, yellow and red card. When a child is misbehaving she asks them to "go get a card" the child gets up, finds their number and changes blue to green, green to yellow, or yellow to red. Ms. V. has not had to give a red card in two whole years! The students know the consequences of their behavior and act the best they can to avoid getting a card. A green is a warning, a yellow is a stern talking to during recess and a red is a meeting with the vice principle and a call home to parents. I think this is a great way to control bad behavior in the classroom! I hope someday to be a behaviorist and I think that observing different behavioral management skills will help with my career!
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Maybe there is someone here you could talk with about having a class made for behavioral management. That is an important skill needed to become a teacher and think that everyone should have a class or something where they are capable of learning behavioral management. I remember going into a classroom with that same strategy and it worked extremely well for the students and teachers. The students have a complete understanding of what each color means. If I remember correctly this was actually used in one of my classes as a child, which is nice to see other teachers using this skill.
ReplyDeleteI agree that behavioral management is an incredibly important aspect in a classroom. I also agree with you that there should be a class offered at SNHU that focuses specifically on behavioral management because that is certainly a technique that not a lot of teachers have naturally. I also notice in my classroom that I'm observing in that there is a similar behavioral management technique to your teacher's. I plan to have something similar in my classroom when I'm a teacher to keep a good level of control over behaviors in my class.
ReplyDeleteI love the example you gave about the behavioral management skill you observe in a classroom. It really opens my eyes to real world examples used in classrooms today. You're right when you talked about how bad behavior should be addressed in the classroom. Children need to know what is expected in your class and what isn't.
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