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Fredric H. Jones
Faculty:
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
UCLA Medical Center
Tools for Teaching (2007)
Eye Contact
Positive Classroom Discipline (1987)
Positive Classroom Instruction (1987)
The Video Toolbox (2007,video)
Articles in "Education World"
Fredric H. Jones
Psychologist
Jones' Overarching Strategy:
Keep students actively and purposefully involved in lessons and enable them to follow directions on their own.
Five Problems that Jones Brought to Light:
Jones' Principal Tactics
Jones and his associates spent thousands of hours observing and recording in hundreds of classrooms (elementary and secondary)
Suggestions for promoting: Active Involvement
Purposeful Behavior Responsibility
(1) Conserve Time and Don't Allow Student to Waste it
(2) Arrange Class Seating to Facilitate Active Teaching and Close Proximity to Students
(3) Teach Your Students the Meaning and Purpose of Discipline
(4) Assign Your Students Specific Responsibilities in Caring for the Classroom
(1) Follow through with class rules and clearly communicate class requirements
(2) Establishing and practicing class routines
(3) Increasing student's initial inclination to participate
(4) Using tactics and activities that Keep students actively involved in lessons
(5) Efficiently providing help to students who need it
(5) Begin Every class with Bell Work
(6) Keep Your Students Actively Engaged in Learning
(7) Use Visual Instructional Plans
(8) Use Body Language to Communicate Pleasantly and Clearly That You Mean Business
(9) Increase Motivation and Responsibility Through Wise use of Incentives
(10) Provide Help Efficiently During Independent Work
(11) Have Stronger Backup Systems Ready for Use if and When Needed
If teachers do not teach expectation and procedures carefully and then fail to ensure compliance with those expectations, then students will give them what they feel like giving them, which usually is not much
Jones' views towards procedures correspond with that of Harry and Rosemary Wong who believe enforcing classroom procedures is one of the most neglected aspects of classroom management
Jones says make it plain to the students;
the purpose of discipline is to:
Think of Discipline as:
A means of helping students rather than clashing with them
If teachers do not teach expectation and procedures carefully and then fail to ensure compliance with those expectations, then students will give them what they feel like giving them, which usually is not much
Jones' views towards procedures correspond with that of Harry and Rosemary Wong who believe enforcing classroom procedures is one of the most neglected aspects of classroom management
The best way to manage behavior is by preventing their occurrence:
Two types of class rules:
**General rules should be posted, referred to and reviewed
Jones Claims:
"Simply by using body language, you can increase achievement for the bottom half of your class by as much as 50% while elimination the majority of classroom disruptions - and you hardly have to open your mouth
Setting Limits: Clearly demarcate the boundaries that separate acceptable behavior from unacceptable behavior
Refer to procedures and routines
There will be many specific rules!
Jones insist to spend the first 2 weeks making sure students thoroughly understand them
C.M. Charles says that the beginning of class is fragmented due to announcements, attendance and tardies causing a loss of 5-8 minutes of learning.
Jones says to start every class with bell work:
Examples:
Jones believes in assigning a classroom chore to every student
Examples of chores:
Come into play during the second part of a lesson when students are doing work on their own
VIPs should be displayed in the room, and students are taught to use them for guidance instead of raising their hands and waiting on the teacher
Incentive: A proffered condition that prompts an individual to act
Body Language
Say what you mean and use to reinforce your words
Body language works non-verbally through:
Jones says that the traditional approach contains some built-in faults:
(interact with individuals, especially the back)
Jones explains that having students seeing smaller bits of information and then quickly doing something with it in short intervals is more engaging than traditional teaching
Independent seat work is especially susceptible to:
Suggestions:
How to reduce tutoring time during independent work:
Jones says that ordinarily teachers can limit misbehavior by using benign tactics such as proximity and eye contact but at times these tactics will come up short:
C.M. Charles gives this example:
"If you are not going to do your work, sit there quietly and don't bother others. I'll speak with you later."
More serious defiance or aggression:
**clear in advance with your administrator
Building Classroom Discipline: Eleventh Edition.
Charles, C. M. (2014).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
"First eat your vegetables, and then you can have your desert."
Genuine Incentives: