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Jacob Kounin- "Discipline through management"
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Quotes
On expectation of a relationship between what teachers did when students misbehave:
"That unexpected fact required unlearning on my part, in the sense of having to replace the original question by other questions. Questions about disciplinary techniques were eliminated and replaced by questions about classroom management in general, [and] preventing misbehavior was given higher investigative priority than handling misbehavior. (1971, p. 143, italics added)
On what teachers should understand about operating their classrooms:
..."the business of running a classroom is a complicated technology having to do with developing a nonsatiating learning program; programming for progress, challenge, and variety in learning activities; initiating and maintaining movement in classroom tasks with smoothness and momentum; coping with more than one even simultaneously; observing and emitting feedback for many different events; directing actions at appropriate targets; maintaining a focus upon a group; and doubtless other techniques not mentioned in these researches. (1971, pp. 144-145)
Background Information
..."the business of running a classroom is a complicated technology having to do with developing a nonsatiating learning program; programming for progress, challenge, and variety in learning activities; initiating and maintaining movement in classroom tasks with smoothness and momentum; coping with more than one even simultaneously; observing and emitting feedback for many different events; directing actions at appropriate targets; maintaining a focus upon a group; and doubtless other techniques not mentioned in th
- Educational psychologist at Wayne State University (1971)
- Focus of work was how classroom management and lesson management affect student behavior
Important Vocabulary to Know
Teachings
-Managing behavior was factored by the teacher's ability to know what was going on in all parts of the classroom at all times.
-Dealing with incipient problems early before they turned into misbehavior.
Withitness- teacher awareness within the classroom, resulting in good behavior
Overlapping- the act of attending to two or more classrooms simultaneously
Group alerting- teachers gain students' full attention before giving directions or making explanations
Momentum- teachers start a lesson with dispatch, keep lesson moving ahead, make smooth transitions, and ending a lesson satisfactorily.
Smoothness- the steady progression of lessons without abrupt change
Satiation- where students get all they can tolerate of a topic