This practice guide is designed for experienced teachers and school leaders supporting colleagues with refining their classroom management practice using AERO’s foundational classroom management resources.
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Effective classroom management creates safe and supportive learning environments for all students. Supporting a colleague with refining their classroom management practice can:
- help them identify their goals and priorities
- raise awareness of current practice
- affirm and reinforce good practice
- assist their refinement of practice through building knowledge, modelling, planning and rehearsing.
This practice guide is designed to help experienced teachers and school leaders effectively support colleagues in refining their classroom management practice using the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)’s foundational classroom management resources by:
- Building and maintaining a collaborative relationship.
- Deciding on a specific practice or skill to observe and preparing for the observation.
- Observing the specific practice or skill.
- Conducting a feedback session.
AERO has also developed a set of classroom management observation tools to be used alongside this practice guide:
- Acknowledgement and Praise
- Building Connections with All Students
- Circulation
- Clear Communication
- Deliberate Pause
- Gaining All Students' Attention
- Non-Verbal Correction
- Responding to Disengaged and Disruptive Behaviour
- Scanning Your Class
- Setting Behaviour Expectations for Completing Learning Tasks
- Students Entering the Classroom
- Students Exiting the Classroom
- Students Gaining Teacher Attention
- Students Moving Through the School
- Voice Control.
Keywords: student engagement, disruption, disruptive behaviour, student behaviour