1-2-3 Magic
This strategy of classroom management focuses on a “no emotion, no talk” and works to have teachers “count” undesirable behaviours leading to a time out. This strategy coupled with positive reinforcement of desirable behaviours is stated to have students behave more positively.
Though there are many points to this strategy that I believe would work well, especially in younger grades, it doesn’t take into account the reasons why students may be behaving in this way. I feel that many students, once taught to understand and identify their emotions are able to articulate and discuss with their teacher.
If I were to use this strategy in my own class, it would be important to discuss the classroom expectations prior beginning the program and create an agreement such as a classroom contract.
Classroom contracts
Using classroom contracts as a classroom management strategy helps to keep students accountable to the expectations in the class. They have agreed to the expectations and and understand why these rules are important. I would want to take this a step further with having agreed upon natural consequences for the behaviours.
Reflection
There are many different ways of using reflection of behaviours in classes. From an SEL standpoint this is very beneficial, students could use this information to understand a correlation between their emotions and behaviour.