Dr. Jacob Kounin
Presented by Kaitlyn Farley
- In 1946, worked as an educational psychologist at Wayne State University
- Wrote a book titled "Discipline and Group Management in Classrooms" which summed up his beliefs about effective and ineffective classroom managers
Experience
Theories
- The possibility of discipline and instruction used as one
- Can incorporate different aspects from each in order to create an effective classroom
- Utilizes skills like discipline and instruction to do so
Theories
Part Two
Theories Part Two
- He concluded that the key to a successful classroom is not the way the teacher handles misbehavior, but instead what teachers do to completely prevent classroom management problems from occurring in the future
Patterns to avoid during times of transitions
Transitions
- Flip Flops: teacher terminates one activity, begins another, returns to the oringial activity
- Overdwelling: Teacher spends more time than necessay to correct an infraction of the classroom rules
- Fragmentation: Teacher breaks direction into choppy steps instead of one fluid unit
- Thrusts: Teacher interrupts classroom momentum with random unrelated comments
- Dangles: Teacher begins a thought then leaves it hanging without completion
Beliefs
- Teachers need to be attentive to all areas of the classroom as well as keep students attentive and involved.
Beliefs
- Jacob Kounin - PLT Learning Content. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/pltlearningcontent/overview-theorists/jacob-kounin
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