Many teachers who graduate from a teaching program at a college or university have grandiose ideas about how their classroom management strategy is to prevent all discipline problems from happening. While this is naive and an incomplete classroom management plan, there is validity to the concept.
Keeping children engaged and on task is a by-product of a well-planned lesson that incorporates many different learning styles and teaching strategies.
Teachers need to consider including some of the following lesson plan strategies in their lessons:
- small groups
- discussion groups
- role playing
- peer tutoring
It is also important to incorporate each learning style into the lesson in order to keep all students engaged.
Visual Learners – Visual aspects to a lesson are often easy to include. This covers pictures, writing on the board, written examples, flash cards and similar objects.
Auditory Learners – Auditory aspects to a lesson include oral directions, lectures, and songs. Using mnemonic devices to help students remember key points is another great auditory learning strategy.
Kinesthetic Learners – Kinesthetic aspects to a lesson include the use of manipulatives and any activities that get students up and moving including games and plays.
With these multidimensional aspects to lesson plans, teachers will have the right planning in place for minimal discipline problems. Even so, it is important that teachers have an additional behavior plan in place as even the most well planned lesson can still have it’s problems.
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