Classroom Management

This seminar focuses on managing school activities in an out of the classroom. The focus of the training is on avoiding disruption and allowing an educator to successfully complete the aim of the prescribed lesson or experience. Techniques for handling potentially disruptive students quickly and before their conduct distracts from class time are explored. Educators learn to anticipate problems and defuse them by eliminating friction between students and between students and teachers.

Emphasis is placed on enlisting existing school professional resources in diagnosing individual student conduct and in applying appropriate remedies to problematic behaviors. Educators learn to employ school disciplinary codes judiciously by focusing on problem solving behavior without reliance on extra-classroom discipline where possible. The proper use of school security and law enforcement personnel in preventing potentially dangerous behavior and in terminating violence is presented in terms of its overall impact on school security, and alternate approaches are explored.