Learning Environment: Dimension 3.2
Dimension 3.2 Managing Student Behavior:
The teacher establishes, communicates and maintains clear expectations for student behavior.
Clarifying Statement:
This dimension focuses on how teachers establish, communicate and maintain clear expectations for student behavior during classroom instruction. One of the teacher's most important responsibilities is managing the classroom effectively, as it has a significant impact on student performance. Teachers with effective classroom management and management of student conduct create an atmosphere that positively enhances learning, as there are no distractions for students. Research consistently shows that the relationship between the teachers and students plays a significant role in classroom and student behavior management, and those teachers that have a high quality, respectful relationship with their students have fewer classroom problems.
Standards Basis:
Standards Basis: 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D
Possible Sources of EvidencePossible Sources of Evidence:
- Conferences and Conversations with the Teacher
- Formal Observations/ Walkthroughs
- Classroom Artifacts
- Analysis of Student Data
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T-TESS Alignment to Practice
- Teachers cultivate student ownership in developing the classroom culture and norms.
- Teachers implement behavior management systems by involving students in the process. These systems establish and maintain an environment where all students learn at peak levels.
- Teachers maintain a strong culture of individual and group accountability for classroom expectations for behavior.
- Respectful relationships are evident with all classroom interactions, e.g., teacher to student and student to student, where effort and achievement is recognized and affirmed.
- Teachers maximize instructional time, including managing transitions before, during and after the lesson.
- As part of the learning environment, teachers manage and facilitate groupings in order to maximize student collaboration, participation and achievement.
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Key Questions
- How do teachers include students in defining and developing a classroom culture and correlating norms to maximize teaching and learning?
- What process do teachers use to develop and implement a positive behavior management system?
- How is misbehavior addressed?
- How is the behavior system aligned schoolwide to create consistency in non-classroom areas?
- How are student groups used to cultivate the learning environment?
Distinguished
- Consistently monitors behavior subtly, reinforces positive behaviors appropriately and intercepts misbehavior fluidly.
- Students and the teacher create, adopt and maintain classroom behavior standards.
Accomplished
Proficient
- Consistently implements the campus and/or classroom behavior system proficiently.
- Most students meet expected classroom behavior standards.
Developing
- Inconsistently implements the campus and/or classroom behavior system.
- Student failure to meet expected classroom behavior standards interrupts learning.
Improvement Needed
- Rarely or unfairly enforces campus or classroom behavior standards.
- Student behavior impedes learning in the classroom.
