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Standards:
Students will be able to understand and be able to implement classroom management techniques
to establish a productive learning environment.
Objectives:
Students will be able to recognize William Glassers choice theory. Students will also be able to
implement techniques into their classroom for better management.
Materials/Equipment: Power Point, Study guide, Bad Teacher video, classroom management
video, choice theory video, skit, scavenger hunt, study guides, exit cards, and assessment sheets.
Procedures:
Opener:
T: Good Evening class. Tonight we are going to teach you about Classroom Management: The
Democratic Classroom- William Glasser and Choice Theory. The procedures will be presented
by Jennifer, Angelique and Rocio, but before we begin we would like to hand out some study
guides to help with tonights lesson.
S: Students now have the opportunity to fill out the study guides during the presentation.
Study Guide
Key Terms
Classroom Management
Arrange classroom furniture to easily monitor student behavior from any point in the
room
Separate friends
Assign misbehaving students close to desk
American psychiatrist and developer of the Reality theory also called, Choice Theory
Born in __________ in Cleveland, Ohio
Founded The William Glasser Institute in 1967
Glassers ideas focused on personal _________, personal _____________, and
personal______________
1998 book Choice Theory details his prospective on how humans behave and what
motivates us to do the things we do
Choice Theory
Theory that behavior is a choice made by individual, based on feelings and needs.
Theory suggests that teachers cannot directly control the behaviors of students, since they
choose their reaction. Teachers can identify behaviors, which in turn empowers change to
reaction of those feelings
Implementation
Teacher must share that students have a say in what they learn and how they learn
it. To have a say student must learn to make choices
Skits and Role playing is a great way to convey messages and concepts such as
building trust, making connections, decisions and responsible choices, caring and
respecting and that every student can success
Supporting
Blaming
Complaining
Accepting
Threatening
Respecting
Bribing or Rewarding to Control
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T: Can I have a volunteer read the first key term? Volunteer for second key term? Volunteer for
third key term?
(Next Slide)
Video- Next, we are going to show a video of examples of classroom management techniques. In
the video there is an opportunity for the class to take a quiz question.
S: Students will answer the quiz question. Then the video continues.
(Next Slide)
T (Rocio): Here are some classroom management strategies for a productive learning
environment for students
Arrange classroom furniture so you can easily monitor students behavior for signs of
inattention, boredom, and misbehavior from any point in the room.
Make sure there is enough room in between so students can move from place to place
without disturbing their classmates
Keep interesting instructional materials out of sight till until you need them
Separate friends who tend to misbehave and get off-task and ones who dislike one
another
T (Rocio): At this time, can we have the class pick a shoulder partner to discuss classroom
management techniques from the slides?
S: Can we have a volunteer talk about the classroom techniques from each group?
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T: Video: We are going to show a video showcasing bad classroom management. Bad teacher.
First day. - YouTube.html
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Students in democratic classrooms have more power and responsibility than students in
conventional classrooms.
If students are to live in a democracy, they must learn to manage freedom responsibly.
Teachers model democracy by giving the students some choice and some control over
classroom activity.
(Next Slide)
William Glasser is an American psychiatrist and the developer of the Reality theory, also
known as The Choice Theory.
Glasser is best known for his 1998 book, Choice Theory which details his perspective on
how humans behave and what motivates us to do the things we do.
(Next Slide)
Glasser theorized that behavior is a choice made by an individual, based on his or her
feelings and needs. In others words, the power lies within each person to determine how
he or she will respond to the demands of the social and physical environment.
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Choice theory suggests that teachers cannot directly control the behaviors of students,
since students choose how to react to their feelings. Teachers can help identify the
circumstances that trigger their behaviors, which in turn empower them to change their
reactions to those feelings.
(Next Slide)
Choice theory holds the five core concepts that may lay a foundation for classroom
management and discipline:
Basic Needs, such as survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun.
Quality World, which includes people, activities, values, and beliefs that are most
important to each human being.
Reality and perception, which suggest that people act, based upon what they
perceive to be real.
Comparing Place, which builds on belief that the purpose of all behavior is to
create a match between what people perceive and what they want
Total Behavior, which has four components: acting, thinking, feeling, and
physiology.
T (Angie): Does anyone in the class have an opinion or comment on The Choice Theory?
S: Students respond.
(Next Slide)
Teachers must share with their students that they have a say in what they learn and how
they learn it. In order to have their say students must learn to make choices.
A great way to convey the message to teach the theory concept is by teaching through the
use of skits or role-playing.
Skits help in teaching students about such concepts as building trust, making connections
and responsible choices, making decisions, socializing, acquiring knowledge to using
knowledge, caring and respecting and every student can succeed.
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T (Angie): We will now ask for five volunteers, for the following activity, to help the students
understand how the choice theory could be implemented in class (which is a skit).
T: Teachers will pass out the skit to five students to read skit out loud to class, with the intention
of giving students a clear idea of the choice theory used in a classroom.
S: Students will now read the skit, to create a clear image of how the choice theory could be
used in a classroom.
T: The class will now have a short discussion about the skit.
(Next slide)
T: We will now do a scavenger hunt. The students are hunting for words (terms) that were
discussed during the lesson. The teachers will separate the room into two teams, and the teams
will have a few minutes to come up with a strategy to win the game.
Closure:
T (Jennifer): Now we will pass out exit cards with the following questions
Assessment:
T (Angie): We will hand out the assessment to the class. Then we will ask the students to get out
their A, B, C, D cards.
1. The five basic needs in the choice theory include all of the following except?
A. survival
B. love and belonging
C. toilet paper
D. power
E. freedom and fun
3. A suggested idea that states people act based upon what they perceive to be real is?
A. perception and reality
B. subliminal messages
C. Jedi mind tricks
D. Insomnia
5. Comparing place builds on a belief that purpose of all behavior is to create a match
between?
A. what people perceive and what they want
B. what people see and what they dont see
C. accepting behavior and negotiating differences
D. power and physiology