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| These questions are (1) What do you want to achieve? (2) What behavioral choices are you making to get what you want? | |
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| (3) Is it working? (4) What other choices or options do you have? | |
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Lastly, instructional management is method developed by Jacob Kounin. According to this theory, keeping a smoothly flowing lesson will prevent behavioral problems. |
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| A major part of the theory is the concept of lesson movement. There are five key practices for good lesson movement. | |
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| (1) Withitness, which refers to a teacher being able to know what is going on in a class at all times. This can be achieved by scanning and moving around the room frequently. | |
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| (2) Overlapping, which refers to a teacher being able to multi-task throughout a class period. | |
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| (3) Momentum: This refers to a teacher being able to keep a lesson moving fluidly by having multiple activities planned within a class period and being able to adapt during a lesson when something does not go as planned. | |
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