After School Classroom Hacks: Tips & Strategies for Behavior Management
Conflict Resolution, Good Sportsmanship, Assessment and Rules & Expectations
PD Hours: This course will take approximately 3 hours to complete. There are video examples of the tips and strategies that you will be learning so you can see first hand how the instructor manages their students.
If you have any questions please email us at [email protected].
Strategies & Tips Covered in this Course:
- Conflict Resolution - Empower students to figure out ways to solve their problems without the help of a teacher.
- Good Sportsmanship - Teach students how to win and lose with good sportsmanship and treat the other player/s with respect no matter what the outcome of the game is.
- Student Self-Assessment - provide criteria each day for students to do a daily self-assessment.
- Rules, Expectations & Consequences - tips for setting expectations and how to manage them with students.
Course Details
Target Audience:
This course is for any educator that works with students K-6 who wants to learn about effective classroom management techniques that will help reduce behavior problems and increase effective instructional time in their programs. If you want to save time, become a more effective educator, motivate your students to take responsibility for their own learning this course is for you.
Note: Ben is a Physical Education teacher and originally designed the materials in this course for Physical Education Classroom Management, however all of the tips and strategies within this course directly apply to out-of-school time, after school and even summer camp educators and professionals.
Course Purpose:
The purpose of this course is to go over classroom management strategies that I’ve found extremely helpful in streamlining and solving many of my management issues I experienced early on in my teaching career.
Course Description:
This course is designed to teach educators how to implement systems in their program that will provide some structure to many of the management issues that they will face during their time with students. My hope is that after implementing what you learn in this course, you will have less management/behavior/organizational struggles and that will allow you to have more time teaching and having fun with your students.
Course Goals:
On completion of this course learners will understand how to:
- Use teachable moments to avoid future issues in class
- Provide clear expectations and rules and examples to students
- Create a daily self-assessment for students that takes less than 5 minutes
- Teach students to solve their own small problems without an adult
- Help students understand how to take responsibility for their own learning in your class
- Teach students to use good sportsmanship
- Different mindset “hacks” that will help them become a better teacher
Reading Materials:
All reading materials are available to download in the form of PDF files from within the course module. There will be several video tutorials as well.
Technology needed to complete:
- A computer
- A Google Drive account (optional but very helpful).
- If you want to actually print the posters included in this course you will need a poster printer (or you can go to Kinkos or a similar company that prints posters)
Strategies & Tips Covered in this Course:
- Conflict Resolution - Empower students to figure out ways to solve their problems without the help of a teacher.
- Good Sportsmanship - Teach students how to win and lose with good sportsmanship and treat the other player/s with respect no matter what the outcome of the game is.
- Student Self-Assessment - provide criteria each day for students to do a daily self-assessment.
- Rules, Expectations & Consequences - tips for setting expectations and how to manage them with students.
Your Instructor
Ben Landers is a K-12 certified Physical Education teacher and has been teaching K-5th Physical Education since 2007. He has completed National Board Certification in PE and also has a Masters in Education from Southern Wesleyan University and a Masters in Educational Leadership from University of South Carolina. Ben also serves as a Clinical Model Teacher for the University of South Carolina, helping to mentor future Physical Education teachers as part of their graduation requirement.
He has a passion for kids and teaching quality physical education lessons that will empower students to be the best they can be. Being a PE teacher is such a great opportunity to have a positive impact on the kids that you teach, but his hope is to also impact more students through providing resources and ideas to teachers. Ben started the website "ThePEspecialist.com" in 2014 to share his knowledge, inspire teachers, add value to the Physical Education community and help solve some of the problems that teachers are struggling with in schools today. Ben is very excited to be offering all of his knowledge about his favorite PE apps in this course. Please contact him at any time with any questions.
Testimonials
"This is an awesome course. I love all of the videos that I can now keep on my computer to use in the near future. There is also so many wonderful print outs in your slides that can be used and modified easily. Love the seating chart idea and the print out for students that have to sit out. The conflict corner is something I am going to give a try right away. Thanks for all this good stuff."
- Kevin T.
"This was a great course for helping me organize my thoughts and lessons and to be proactive to disciplinary procedures with an attempt to prevent these from happening."
- Erica G.
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