Harry Wong CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

By: Courtney Runyon, Shirley Mounts, & Morgan Casey

About Wong: An educator & educational speaker

From San Francisco, CA

Received undergraduate degree from the University of California & doctorate from Brigham Young University in Utah

Former high school science teacher

Awarded the Horace Mann Outstanding Educator Award & the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award

Received first Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Teacher’s Hall of Fame in 2012, in Emporia, Kansas

About Wong (continued): Married a Sicilian woman named

Rosemary

They have three children and four grandchildren

Travel across country mentoring teachers

Built a school in Cambodia

Are the most sought after speakers in education.

Travel the world teaching teachers about classroom management

Author:

Works include The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher and New Teacher Induction.

The First Days of School has sold over 3.6 million copies.

He advocates classroom management and procedures over discipline.

Theory Overview

“No learning takes place when you discipline. All disciplining does is stop deviant behavior, which must be done, but no learning has taken place. Learning only takes place when the students are at work, or as we say in education, on-task.”

Teacher’s Actions

Ineffective teachers begin the first day of school attempting to teach a subject and spend the rest of the school year running after the students.

Effective teachers spend most of the first two weeks of the school year teaching students to follow classroom procedures.

“Effective teacher manages a classroom, ineffective teacher disciplines a classroom.”

Harry Wong: Discipline & Procedures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u27OKWfLh6Y

Teacher’s Responsibilities

The Three-Step Approach for Teaching Classroom Procedures  

Explain: State, explain, model, and demonstrate the procedure.

Rehearse: Rehearse and practice the procedure under your supervision.

Reinforce: Reteach, rehearse, practice, and reinforce the classroom procedure until it becomes a student habit or routine.

First days of school can make or break you

A SUCCESSFUL TEACHER IS READY: The work is ready The room is ready The teacher is ready

Pros & Cons of Harry Wong

Pros: Approach of an effective teacher

Three Step Approach for Teaching Classroom Procedures

Breakdown of procedures and routines, & how this is utilized in a successful classroom.

High expectations = positive results

Cons: No room for flexibility

Doesn’t take different individual needs into consideration

“One of the greatest gifts a caring teacher can contribute to children is to help them learn to sit when they feel like running, to raise their hand when they feel like talking, to be polite to their neighbor, to stand in line without pushing, and

to do their homework when they feel like playing. By introducing procedures in the

classroom, you are also introducing procedures as a way of living a happy and successful life.”