Abstract
Classroom Management Strategies to “Live By”
Effective classroom management is often the yardstick by which teachers are measured, leading many to become disheartened if their daily teaching strategies and their own personal authority appear to fail them in the classroom. Traditional teacher-training courses do not usually provide much training on classroom management, leaving new teachers ill-equipped for the “challenging classroom”. This workshop aims to provide information that could help take the stress out of teaching, and to provide reliable positive classroom management strategies as well as some related classroom management theory. The workshop also aims to explain the characteristics of a “good” school behavior system and its connection to classroom management. This connection will demonstrate how a teacher with even a low personal authority can effectively manage difficult students. Management strategies may change depending on the age range of students and this topic will also be addressed during the workshop. A wide range of strategies will be provided at the workshop for coping with common classroom management issues. This paper will be of interest to experienced and inexperienced teachers alike. The main area of focus will be “Middle” and “High School” classroom management, although there will also be some references to strategies that can be used in an Elementary School.
BIO
Amanda Maitland is a professor at Chonbuk National University in Jeonju, South Korea where she is Director of TESOL Teacher-Training and Education. Before she came to Korea she was a senior professor at the University of East London where she taught Linguistics, Language Studies, Education Theory and TESOL courses. Amanda Maitland also has extensive experience of teaching in the secondary sector in the UK and has developed a large personal portfolio of strategies for "Classroom Management."
In addition to this, she is currently studying for a PhD in Criminal Psychology and has already obtained a Diploma in Mental Health and Psychiatry, Counselling and Therapy. Forensic Science and Criminal Psychology..
Her other duties have been related to course design and the development of Primary, Secondary, Post-Compulsory, and TESOL Teacher-Training courses. In addition to this, Amanda Maitland has been published in the fields of "reading", "reflective journal writing", "classroom management" and "soft toy theory"..
Maitland39@hotmail.co.uk
