G. Lehmann-EDAT 6115

Description: In order to create an effective learning environment, teachers must understand the behaviors of students and how to help them make choices that will lead to the success of all students. Classroom management practices should grow out of a mutual respect between the students and the teacher. The most essential aspect of classroom management is effective instruction that engages students in meaningful, relevant activities that are well organized, developmentally appropriate, and creative (Slavin, 2018).  An effective teacher knows how to address minor negative behaviors in a way that does not escalate the situation and maintains the structure of the lesson. This often involves simple nonverbal cues such as proximity or eye contact (Slavin, 2018). Praising and reinforcing the desired behaviors rather than drawing attention to negative behaviors will support a positive learning environment (Slavin, 2018). There are times when more serious behaviors must be addressed. Teac...

Description : Understanding the ways that students learn and adopt behaviors will help teachers make choices about how they manage their classrooms that can lead to more successful learning for all students. Chapter 5 of Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice (12th edition) outlines social and behavioral learning theories and how they operate in the classroom (Slavin, 2018). Learning takes place  in a variety of ways, but it is related to the connection between a stimulus and a response. Ivan Pavlov famously studied what takes place when a conditioned stimulus causes an unconditioned response and how that process can be manipulated, or what is now called “classical conditioning” (Slavin, 2018). B. F. Skinner continued this work by exploring “the use of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to change behavior”, referred to as “operant conditioning” (Slavin, 2018, p.99). Albert Bandura explored what children learn through social experiences and modeling and how it changes beha...