Year 2019 Elementary Behavior Management Strategies for Grades 1-8

This report focuses on behavior management strategies for elementary school classrooms (grades 1-8). It begins by defining elementary schools and the importance of behavior management, referencing key statistics and expert opinions on the impact of behavior on learning. The report then delves into the characteristics of well-managed classrooms, followed by seven key strategies for ensuring effective behavior management and a structured learning environment. These strategies include: posting and reinforcing expectations, maximizing predictability and structure, planning questions and questioning techniques, correcting errors non-intrusively, actively engaging students, developing class-wide cultural awareness, and fostering empathy. Each strategy is explained with practical examples and advice for implementation, emphasizing the importance of creating a positive and supportive classroom atmosphere to enhance student engagement and learning. The report concludes by citing relevant references used in the analysis.

YEAR
2019
Elementary Behavior
Management
strategies
For Elementary Age
Group (Classes 1 to 8)

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Elementary School
• Elementary school refers to the primary
school for the children who are 4 to 11
years old.
• It is regarded as the main point of delivery
of primary education in the U.S.A. (Guo et
al., 2015)
• At present, there are about 93,89
elementary schools in the United States

A study reviewing student
learning looked at 11,000
pieces of research that spanned
over 50 years. It determined
and ranked 28 factors that
influence student learning. The
most important factor is….
BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT
(Wei et al., 2014)
FYI
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What is Behaviour
Management?
• As per Micek (2014), behaviour management is “the
process of shaping student behavior in order to
facilitate a classroom environment in which effective
learning can occur”.
• According to Pas et al. (2015), it is one among the
major concerns for the teachers.
• “77% of teachers believed they would be able to teach
more successfully if less time and energy were spent
addressing disruptive student behavior” (Lambert et al.,
2015).

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Moffitt Says:
• “A lack of motivation, language barriers, and
socioeconomic barriers contributed to behavior
problems in the classroom” (Moffitt, 2017).
• Teachers should dig deep into the lives of their students
in order to find out how the home lives and
backgrounds of the students influence their point of
view towards schools and learning.

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Behavior
Management in
elementary School
• Behaviour Management is a facet of teaching.
• One of the many challenges that teachers face
everyday in school is behaviour management
(Tang, Wong & Cheng, 2015).
• It directly influence the learning environment in
negative manner and cause more time being
spent on the process of addressing behaviours
rather than teaching important content and skills.

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Root of Behaviour
struggle
a) “Good discipline is invisible when it’s
done well”
b) “Great teachers are the worst people
for explaining to anyone else how
they discipline their students”
(Books, 2015)

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Crone, Hawken
and Horner Say:
• Majority of the behavior problems within elementary
school classrooms are because of the failure of students
in following the routines and procedures.
• This in turn are caused by the teachers who fail to
provide routines and procedures.
• The effective teachers manage the classrooms with
routines and procedures
• The ineffective teachers discipline their classrooms with
punishments and threats (Crone, Hawken & Horner,
2015).

Characteristics of Well-
managed Classroom
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Strategies
for ensuring
effective
behavior
manageme
nt and a
structured
classroom.

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7 Ways of
Behaviour
Management
1. “Post, teach, review, monitor, and reinforce
expectations.”
2. Maximizing predictability and structure.
3. Planning questions and different techniques of
questioning before the time.
4. Correcting the errors non-intrusively and quickly.
5. Actively engaging with the students in observable
manner.
6. Developing class-wide cultural awareness.
7. Developing empathy.

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1. Post, teach, review,
monitor, and reinforce
expectations.
• Expectations should be outlined before the students.
• Teachers must enforce the expectations about the ways
in which students will act in classroom.
• These expectations should be stated in positive tone.
• After the expectations are set, they need to be posted
in order to ensure that students can review them and
follow them daily.
• Teachers should refer the outlined expectations as
required all through the year.