Running head: Education 201 Lesson Plan 1

Education 201 Lesson Plan

Angelique Cameron

Dr. Ce Isbell

November 10, 2015

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CHAPTER 10 LESSON PLAN

Student_____________________________________________ Grade Level______________

Subject Area__________________

Standards:

Students will be able to understand and be able to implement classroom management

techniques to establish a productive learning environment.

Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize William Glasser’s choice theory. Students will also be able to
implement techniques into their classroom for better management.

Materials/Equipment: Power Point, Study guide, Bad Teacher video, classroom management
video, choice theory video, skit, scavenger hunt, study guides, exit cards, and assessment
sheets.

Procedures:

Opener:

T: Good Evening class. Tonight we are going to teach you about Classroom Management: The
Democratic Classroom- William Glasser and Choice Theory. The procedures will be presented by
Jennifer, Angelique and Rocio, but before we begin we would like to hand out some study
guides to help with tonight’s lesson.

S: Students now have the opportunity to fill out the study guides during the presentation.
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Study Guide

Key Terms

1. An approach to classroom management developed by psychiatrist William Glasser, based on

belief that students will usually make good choices (such as behave in a good manner) if they
experience success in the classroom and know that teachers care about
them_________________
2. Day-to-day teacher control of student behavior and learning, including discipline
is_______________
3. A classroom in which the teacher’s leadership style encourages students to take more power
and responsibility for their learning is a ________________

Classroom Management

4. ____________________________ refers to how teachers structure their learning environment

to prevent, or minimize, behavior problems
5. _________________is prevention –oriented, while ______________discipline is control

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responsibility
learning for
6. A goal of classroom management is to structure the classroom environment to _____________
student attention and ___________ disruptive behavior

Strategies for productive learning environment

 Arrange classroom furniture to easily monitor student behavior from any point in the room
 Separate friends
 Assign misbehaving students close to desk

Who is William Glaser?

 American psychiatrist and developer of the Reality theory also called, Choice Theory
 Born in __________ in Cleveland, Ohio
 Founded The William Glasser Institute in 1967
 Glassers ideas focused on personal _________, personal _____________, and
personal______________
 1998 book Choice Theory details his prospective on how humans behave and what motivates us
to do the things we do

Choice Theory

 Theory that behavior is a choice made by individual, based on feelings and needs.
 Theory suggests that teachers cannot directly control the behaviors of students, since they
choose their reaction. Teachers can identify behaviors, which in turn empowers change to
reaction of those feelings
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Five Core Concepts of Choice Theory

 Basic Needs-survival, love, power, freedom, and fun

 Quality World-people, activities, and values
 Reality and Perception-acting on personal perception of reality
 Comparing Place-purpose of behavior is to match what people perceive and what they want
 Total Behavior-acting, thinking, feeling, physiology

Implementation

 Teacher must share that students have a say in what they learn and how they learn it.
To have a “say” student must learn to make choices
 Skits and Role playing is a great way to convey messages and concepts such as building
trust, making connections, decisions and responsible choices, caring and respecting and
that every student can success

7 Caring Habits 7 Deadly Habits

Supporting
Blaming
Complaining
Accepting
Threatening
Respecting
Bribing or Rewarding to Control

(Next Slide)

T: In tonight’s lesson you will consist of:

 The key terms

 What is classroom management?
 Classroom management strategies for a productive learning environment for students
 Who is William Glasser?
 What is choice theory?
 Key Concepts in Choice Theory
 Implementing Choice Theory in an Elementary Classroom
 Exit cards
 Assessment

(Next Slide)
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T: Can I have a volunteer read the first key term? Volunteer for second key term? Volunteer for
third key term?

S: Student one reply. Second student reply. Third student reply.

(Next Slide)

T (Rocio): What is classroom management?

• Classroom management refers to how teachers structure their learning environment to

prevent, or minimize, behavior problems.

• Discipline refers to methods teachers use after students misbehave.

• Classroom management is prevention-oriented, while discipline is control oriented.

• The goal of classroom management is to structure the classroom environment to

maximize student attention and minimize disruptive behavior.

Video- Next, we are going to show a video of examples of classroom management techniques.
In the video there is an opportunity for the class to take a quiz question.

S: Students will answer the quiz question. Then the video continues.

(Next Slide)

T (Rocio): Here are some classroom management strategies for a productive learning
environment for students

• Arrange classroom furniture so you can easily monitor students’ behavior for signs of
inattention, boredom, and misbehavior from any point in the room.

• Make sure there is enough room in between so students can move from place to place
without disturbing their classmates

• Keep interesting instructional materials out of sight till until you need them

• Separate friends who tend to misbehave and get off-task and ones who dislike one
another

• Assign misbehaving students to seats close to your desk

T (Rocio): At this time, can we have the class pick a shoulder partner to discuss classroom
management techniques from the slides?
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S: Can we have a volunteer talk about the classroom techniques from each group?

T: Video: We are going to show a video showcasing bad classroom management .Bad teacher.
First day. - YouTube.html

(Next Slide)

T (Jennifer): Who is William Glasser?

• William Glasser is an American psychiatrist and the developer of the Reality theory, also
known as The Choice Theory.

• He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1925

• Dr. Glasser founded The Institute for Reality Therapy in 1967, which was later, renamed
The Institute for the Control Theory, Reality Therapy and Quality Management in 1994.
But in 1996, the institute was renamed again finally as The William Glasser Institute.

• Glasser’s ideas focus on personal choice, personal responsibility, and personal

transformation.

(Next Slide)

T (Angie): What is the Choice Theory?

• Glasser theorized that behavior is a choice made by an individual, based on his or her
feelings and needs. In others words, the power lies within each person to determine
how he or she will respond to the demands of the social and physical environment.

• Choice theory suggests that teachers cannot directly control the behaviors of students,
since students choose how to react to their feelings. Teachers can help identify the
circumstances that trigger their behaviors, which in turn empower them to change their
reactions to those feelings.

• Video: William Glasser's Choice Theory - YouTube.html

(Next Slide)

T (Angie): Key Concepts for the Choice Theory

• Choice theory holds the five core concepts that may lay a foundation for classroom
management and discipline:

• Basic Needs, such as survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun.
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• Quality World, which includes people, activities, values, and beliefs that are most
important to each human being.

• Reality and perception, which suggest that people act, based upon what they
perceive to be real.

• Comparing Place, which builds on belief that the purpose of all behavior is to
create a match between what people perceive and what they want

• Total Behavior, which has four components: acting, thinking, feeling, and
physiology.

T (Angie): Does anyone in the class have an opinion or comment on The Choice Theory?

S: Students respond.

(Next Slide)

T (Jennifer): Implementing Choice Theory in the Elementary classroom

• Teachers must share with their students that they have a say in what they learn and
how they learn it. In order to have their “say” students must learn to make choices.

• A great way to convey the message to teach the theory concept is by teaching through
the use of skits or role-playing.

• Skits help in teaching students about such concepts as building trust, making
connections and responsible choices, making decisions, socializing, acquiring knowledge
to using knowledge, caring and respecting and every student can succeed.

T (Angie): We will now ask for five volunteers, for the following activity, to help the students
understand how the choice theory could be implemented in class (which is a skit).

T: Teachers will pass out the skit to five students to read skit out loud to class, with the
intention of giving students a clear idea of the choice theory used in a classroom.

S: Students will now read the skit, to create a clear image of how the choice theory could be
used in a classroom.

T: The class will now have a short discussion about the skit
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T: A chart to show a section of the choice theory

Closure:

T (Jennifer): Now we will pass out exit cards with the following questions

1. Give at least two examples of classroom management techniques.

2. Name the basic needs of Choice Theory.

3. Please list one to three things you learned today.

Assessment:

T (Angie): We will hand out the assessment to the class. Then we will ask the students to get
out their A, B, C, D cards.

1. The five basic needs in the choice theory include all of the following except?
A. survival
B. love and belonging
C. toilet paper
D. power
E. freedom and fun

S: Students hold up cards to show their answers.

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2. Quality world includes_____?

A. Macy’s
B. Walmart
C. Rio de Janeiro
D. people, activities, values, and belief
E. Nike

S: Students hold up cards to show their answers.

3. A suggested idea that states people act based upon what they perceive to be real is?
A. perception and reality
B. subliminal messages
C. Jedi mind tricks
D. Insomnia

S: Students hold up cards to show their answers.

4. What are the four components of total behavior?

A. basic needs, quality world, comparing place, reality and perception
B. threatening, complaining, punishing, nagging
C. accepting, supporting, respecting, trusting
D. acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology

S: Students hold up cards to show their answers.

5. Comparing place builds on a belief that purpose of all behavior is to create a match
between…?
A. what people perceive and what they want
B. what people see and what they don’t see
C. accepting behavior and negotiating differences
D. power and physiology

T: We will now do a scavenger hunt. The students are hunting for words (terms) that were
discussed during the lesson. The teachers will separate the room into two teams, and the teams
will have a few minutes to come up with a strategy to win the game.
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T: Here is a list of the terms on the scavenger hunt.

1. William Glasser 9. Total behavior

2. Choice theory 10. To love and belong
3. Classroom management 11. To be powerful
4. Democratic classroom 12. To be free
5. Basic needs 13. To have fun
6. The quality world 14. To survive
7. Reality and perception
8. Comparing place