Guide to Tripod’s 7Cs™ Framework
Classroom Management
Teachers who are effective at classroom management foster orderly, respectful, and on-task classroom behavior. They create conditions that enable learning, including establishing a positive classroom climate, teaching self-management skills, monitoring student conduct, and redirecting unproductive behavior.
Message to Students:
“Our class will remain orderly, on task, and respectful, with learning as our first priority.”
Sample Student Survey Items
(for different grade levels)
- Our class stays busy and does not waste time.
- My classmates behave the way my teacher wants them to.
- Students in this class treat the teacher with respect.
Indicators of an Exemplary Classroom
Teachers demonstrate effective classroom management through practices like these:
Managing activities
The classroom environment is organized and time is used efficiently.
- The teacher explains, models, and implements routines and strategies to systematize classroom processes.
- Classroom activities run smoothly due to materials being readily accessible and time being managed effectively, including during transitions and interruptions.
Managing behavior
The teacher effectively guides students in managing their behavior.
- The teacher explains, models, and implements routines and strategies that elicit positive student behavior.
- The teacher establishes and regularly encourages high standards for student conduct, coaches students on how to meet those standards, and holds students accountable in a fair and consistent manner.
Reflection Questions
Consider these questions as you reflect on your classroom practice:
- What expectations and routines do you establish for student behavior?
- How quickly do you get students settled and working at the beginning of class?
- How do you make sure students in class are busy learning and not wasting time?
- How long before the end of class do you start to wind down the work?
- How do you respond when it appears that students are off task?
- How do you respond when students treat you or each other disrespectfully?
- How do you respond when students ignore or disobey what you have asked them to do?
Sample Strategies
Try implementing teaching strategies like these in your classroom:
- Organize the classroom for optimal efficiency to enable student access to materials, equipment, and other resources. For example, make sure students can easily locate their classroom folders, notebooks, or texts without disrupting others.
- Establish classroom routines for individual and group work, transitions, and class discussions.
- Work with students to develop an agreement about expectations for classroom behavior, ask everyone to sign it, and post it publicly for regular reference.
- Respond with logical consequences when students do not comply with agreed upon behavior expectations.
TEACHING RESOURCES
We’ve curated a set of teaching resources for Classroom Management. As you set goals and pursue professional learning opportunities, use these resource collections to access additional strategies, tools, and examples of effective practices in action.
Classroom Management: Managing Activities
Teachers who are effective at classroom management foster orderly, respectful, and on-task classroom behavior. They create conditions that enable learning, including establishing a positive classroom climate, teaching self-management skills, monitoring student conduct, and redirecting unproductive behavior. Find resources offering classroom strategies that support the practice of organizing the classroom environment and using time efficiently.
Student-Led Guidelines for Using Materials and Space | EL Education
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Mastering Classroom Transitions
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Instructional Pacing: How Do Your Lessons Flow?
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Reciprocal Teaching | Reading Rockets
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Assigning Roles for Group Work
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Classroom Management: Managing Behavior
Teachers who are effective at classroom management foster orderly, respectful, and on-task classroom behavior. They create conditions that enable learning, including establishing a positive classroom climate, teaching self-management skills, monitoring student conduct, and redirecting unproductive behavior. Find resources offering classroom strategies that support the practice of effectively guiding students in managing their behavior.
Language and Mindset for Effective Redirection
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Responding to Defiance in the Moment | Responsive Classroom
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Talking Circles: For Restorative Justice and Beyond | Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice
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Three Types of Logical Consequences | Responsive Classroom
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Mastering Classroom Transitions
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The Power of Positive Relationships
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Building a Positive, Trusting Classroom Environment
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Using Dialogue Circles to Support Classroom Management
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Helping Troubled Students, One Relationship at a Time
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Morning Meetings: Creating a Safe Space for Learning
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Creating Community All Day Long
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Cracking the Behavior Code
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