Component One
Self-control strategies
What does prevention look like? A teacher who notices a challenge before it escalates and defuses it calmly. Done consistently, that eliminates up to 90% of low-level disruptions.
Program one
Classroom management, taught on your campus
Your staff spends one day learning a complete management system, then uses it starting with the next class period.
Why this training
Why schools book this training
Academics and discipline cannot be separated. Low-level behavior takes instruction time all day, and even the strongest content teacher cannot deliver a lesson in a room that is out of control.
The strategies in this training reduce or eliminate 70 to 90% of low-level, chronic behaviors. Teachers get time back and feel more effective, and that matters for retention: classroom management is the number one reason educators leave.
Research
"Teachers' actions in their classrooms have twice the impact on student achievement as school policies regarding curriculum, assessment, staff collegiality, and community involvement."
Marzano, R. J. (2003). What Works in Schools. ASCD.
The five components
The playbook
Five strategies, each taught, modeled, and practiced during the training.
1. Self-Control
2. Rules & Procedures
3. Responding to Challenges
4. Ecology & Arrangement
5. Relationships
Component Two
Teaching rules and procedures
Clear procedures, taught on purpose, reduce office referrals. Teachers learn to plan and practice routines the same way they plan academic lessons.
Component Three
Responding to challenges
Timing matters when a student challenges a teacher. Using the diffuser system, contingent withdrawal of attention, and a supportive stance, teachers defuse confrontations in five seconds or less, and they stop giving repeated warnings.
Component Four
Classroom ecology and arrangement
Where students sit and where the teacher stands both shape behavior. This component turns that into fifteen practical desk arrangements.
Component Five
Student-teacher relationships
The hardest students are usually the ones who most need a connection. This component shows teachers how to build it and how to bring non-compliant students into the work of the class.
Agenda
How the day runs
Here is a typical full day. Half-day versions are available, and dates are set around your calendar.
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM covers how to stay calm and alert, how to arrange and design the classroom (including fifteen desk arrangements), the teaching power position, and how to teach and enforce rules and procedures.
1:00 to 3:30 PM, after a one-hour lunch, covers disciplinary actions that are firm but fair, student-teacher relationships, non-compliant students, the five immediate steps to regain control, and teaching without multiple warnings or repeated requests.
Bring classroom management training to your campus
Request a free quote with your dates and staff size.