Behaviourist Approach In Classroom Management

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My Body (Head, Shoulder, Knee and Toes)

Students are required stand up away from the table and chair, for no harm shall be done during the activity. They also need to move a bit further from their friends. The teacher will set up the song and prepare to present the song to the pupils. The teacher need to make sure that the entire pupil is comfortable with their position. The song then will be play and the teacher needs to show them the movement before the pupils started to do the same. After a few demonstrations to the pupil, now the teacher asks the students to mimic the movement that he or she had done earlier. The pupil will mimic the movement shown earlier while singing the song. The teacher needs to make sure that the entire pupil now …show more content…

This theory also can be applied into classroom management.

Background: These excerpts pertain to a year 3 class of pupil, with a reputation for being quite hard work because of the number of disruptive pupils who have friends within the group.
They refer to the beginnings of the first three English lessons not being taught by their regular teacher. The classroom has windows facing both a playground and an internal corridor.
It is behaviour (classroom management) rather than content that is focussed on here.

Lesson One
The pupil lined up in the corridor waiting to be let into the room. Their noses were pressed up against the windows, as they tried to work out who the new faces in the room were. Once allowed into the room, they looked slightly diffidently at the "new teachers" and then proceeded to take a seat and talk quite noisily. Then the regular teacher walked into the room, silence fell and a number of pupils seemed to be trying to hide their faces. Later I realised these were the pupils who were not in the usual seating

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