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Jacob Kounin

Be Productive, Not Reactive

Roles of the Teacher, Student, and Classroom

Ripple Effect

  • Teacher Smooths Transitions
  • Teacher Stays on Track, and on Top
  • Students Pay Attention
  • Students Behave, and Respond Appropriately
  • Classroom Needs to be Undistracting

-Correcting one student's behavior, positively influencing other students

-Clear and firm correction

-Other students respond to the correction

Group Alerting/Focus

-Keeping the students or group paying attention to the task while reducing misbehavior

Utilization in the Classroom

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What Outcome Should This Theory Produce?

-Includes two main techniques

1. Accountability

2. Alerting

  • Things Run Fluidly, While Teaching
  • "Eyes at the Back of your Head"
  • Paying Attention to 2 or More Events
  • Little Amount of Divergences
  • Alerting One Student Alerts the Class
  • Keeps Students Accountable
  • Treating Other Students

-Includes thoughtful planning for ways to keep the students engaged and focused including having and delivering effective transitions

If a teacher uses the techniques that are taught in Jacob Kounin’s theory they will be able to maintain a classroom atmosphere conducive to learning. Keeping students busily and happily engaged, behavior issues will be reduced and learning can be more effective. A teacher’s ability to manage groups and lessons is key when having an effective classroom. All of this will be produced when a teacher follows Jacob Kounin’s theory.

Withitness

"Having eyes in the back of your head"

Main Idea

Organization

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Planning

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Good Classroom Management

-Staying on top of misbehavior

-Being aware of what is going on in the classroom

-Speedy correction when students are misbehaving

Overlapping

-Teachers have the ability to be aware of multiple issues at one time

-Students stay on task

-Overlapping increases awareness for teachers in the classroom

Satiation

-"Means being satisfied or having enough"

-Used to describe the lack of interest students experience when focused on one task

-Teacher must:

-Find ways to keep even monotonous tasks interesting and exciting

-Continue to keep students on task by mixing things up and fining ways to keep students focused

Works Referenced

  • Jacob Kounin. N.p., n.d. Web.
  • "Jacob Kounin." ULMClassroomManagement - Jacob Kounin. N.p., n.d. Web.
  • Nash Erlieda, Assistant at Yayasan Pembangunan Ekonomi Islam Malaysia (YaPEIM) Follow. "Kounin Model." LinkedIn SlideShare. N.p., 03 Mar. 2013. Web.

  • PEC: Classroom Behavior/Learning Environment Article, www.pecentral.org/climate/april99article.html.
  • Davis, K. “Jacob Kounin.” ULMClassroomManagement - Jacob Kounin, Wikipages, ulmclassroommanagement.wikispaces.com/Jacob+Kounin.
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