Five Core Components

Five Core Components of Classroom Management Professional Development

Our training consists of five core components:

• Self-Control Strategies
• Classroom Design Techniques
• Teaching to Appropriate Behaviors
• Accurate and Timely Consequences
• Student-Teacher Relationships

Self-Control Strategies

• Learning that calm is contagious and silence is powerful
• Dealing with challenges on student time
• Personal space awareness
• Avoiding power struggles
• Diffusing challenges

Classroom Design Techniques

• Desk arrangements
• Ecological revisions
• Strategic use of:
  • Color
  • Lighting
  • Scent
  • Music

Teaching to Appropriate Behaviors

• Teaching to classroom rules
• Teaching to classroom routines
• Teaching to common or shared area expectations
• Teaching behaviors using the “I do – we do – you do” method

Accurate and Timely Consequences

• Refocus™ – eliminating 90% of classroom challenges
• Avoiding multiple warnings and repeated requests
• Using start-up and shut-down prompts

Student-Teacher Relationships

• Connecting with students
• Unconditional Positive Regard (UPR)
• Turning challenging students into allies