Jacob Kounin's Theories on Classroom Management

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First,Elearn Portal,(2016)post theKounin Mode theory of Jacob Kounin. He is recognized for two studies concerning classroom management in the 1970’s. These readings emphasized how teachers could manage students, lessons and classrooms to reduce the incidence of bad behaviour. This theorist acknowledged definite teaching techniques that help, and hinder, classroom discipline. Bestowing to Kounin, the method used, not the teacher’s personality, is the most crucial aspect in classroom management of student behaviour. The title of his book is Discipline and Group Management in Classrooms which centres on preventive discipline. He says that, good classroom management depends on operative lesson management. He also acknowledged a group of proactive …show more content…

The result is greater when the teacher clearly names the unacceptable behaviour of the pupil and provides the reasons why the behaviour is unacceptable. Wittiness is the second coined by Kounin, it defines the need for the teacher to be attentive of what is going on in all parts of the classroom at all times. Pupils need to know that the teacher is aware of what is going on in the classroom. According to him, when pupils are off-task, the teacher should send a clear message that communicates to students the awareness that they are not working and that they need to become engaged. The classroom applications of wittiness comprise; constantly being alert to the myriad of sights and sounds in the classroom, spacing out the classroom so that all students are always within eyesight, look over the room periodically when working with individuals or small groups of pupils, when helping an individual pupil, the teacher faces the rest of the class, and briefly acknowledging pupil misbehaviour at first discovery to let the pupil and the whole class know that the teacher is alert. Wittiness encompasses the use of maintaining eye contact, asking individual and group questions, continually moving around the classroom in a random fashion and specifically moving toward impending misbehaving students, thus, redirecting students to prevent misbehaviour.( Kyla Cook,

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