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What is the Relationship
between Overlapping
and Withitness?
Kounin's model helps distinguish between more and less effective classroom teachers on the basis of their active attempts to prevent the behavior, rather than their ability to control it once it occurs.
Created an ecological framework that focused attention on the distinctive properties of the classroom environment and relationships between the demands of this environment and the behaviors of teachers and students- (Doyle, 31)
Helped shift the focus of management research from reactive strategies to preventive strategies and from teacher personality to the environmental and strategic components of management- (Emmer, 104)
Developed a language, based on concepts that began to capture the dynamic character of management processes in classrooms -(Doyle, 31)
The model is very teacher-centered
Students develop a sense of responsibility for their own learning as a reaction of making them accountable for their work
Both the teacher and the students contribute to create a positive classroom environment
Some concepts may not be effective in different cultural contexts
The model takes an extreme amount of effort by the teacher
Encourages mutual respect between the students and the teacher
Kounin's key concepts are simple and easy to understand
Some teachers might not be able to differentiate between firmness and roughness/anger
Students are less likely to test the teacher's limits because the boundaries have clearly been illustrated by the teacher's withitness and subsequent actions
Does not provide any insight on the proper techniques for correct discipline
Strategies identified by Kounin can be used in a wide variety of classroom
Discussion
Imagine you are a teacher working with a small group. A student is coming back from the bathroom, another is walking around the classroom aimlessly, and another student just came in the classroom with a message from the office. What do you do? How do you cope with this?
Overlapping
Ripple Effect
"What the teacher does when she has two matters to deal with at the same time." (Pollard, 224)
Group Focus
Transitions & Smoothness
What are effective transitions that you might use in your classroom to avoid jerkiness and slowdowns?
What are ways teachers can maintain this sense of alertness in children?
Two Categories of Movement Mistakes:
Jerkiness
Slowdowns
Withitness
3 Major Components:
Satiation
What are things teachers can do to avoid satiation?
EXAMPLE
Mrs. Sanchez is engaging all students in an activity on fractions. The seated students are working independently on a worksheet while Joey stands at her desk, asking a question on a specific problem. Mrs. Sanchez is helping Joey through a problem when she picks up on a noise in the back of the classroom. It's Samantha talking to Johnny.
Who is Jacob Kounin
References
"A teacher's success in classroom management depends on his or her ability to monitor and guide the class. To accomplish this, teachers must be aware of what is happening, be able to handle two or more simultaneous events, sustain group focus, and keep action moving along smoothly."
-(Doyle, 31)
Brophy, J. (1987). Educating teachers about
managing classrooms and students. Teaching and Teacher Education, 4(1), 1-18.
Doyle, W. (1985). Recent Research on Classroom
Management: Implications for Teacher Education. Journal of Teacher Education.
Emmer, E., & Stough, L. (2001). Classroom
Management: A Critical Part of Educational Psychology, With Implications for Teacher Education. Educational Psychologist, 36(2).
Houff, S. (2009). The Classroom Manager:
Procedures and Practices to Improve Instruction. Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Education.
Pollard, A. (2002). Readings for Reflective Teaching.
London: Continuum.
Based on Jim Harvey's speech structures