Train your teachers for classroom management

For today’s proven management solution, I want to talk to childcare business owners about classroom systems. If you follow this system you will never be without great trained teachers. So if you’re interested in finding out about the secrets that I’ve used to accomplish this, be sure to read this blog.

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Well all right, let’s dive deep into today’s training about classroom management. Last week, we talked about classroom management. If you haven’t read about it yet, be sure to check out my previous blog post by clicking here.

But what we did was we described what classroom management included classroom and to me is how well the classroom flows, the ability to keep your schedule and skill in a variety of areas such as curriculum teaching, classroom safety, awareness, and having the skill set and the ability for proper classroom hygiene disinfection, how the classroom is set up and why, and keeping the classroom style guide that is my definition of classroom management. 

Here at the School of Systems, our strategies are given to CEOs to implement strategies that help with the behavior of staff. And once you help the staff with their behavior, it then trickles down to the student. So your behavior management is not the classic behavior management that’s defined online. It is the definition that we use in the School Of Systems so that you can improve the way your classrooms operate, and help gauge the behavior of your teachers. 

So if you do these strategies, the behaviors of your teachers will change. Let’s start with strategy number one. 

The first thing I want you to do when it comes to classroom management is to determine how many centers your classrooms will carry. What do I mean by that? Well, I’ve traveled the world and I’ve gone from center to center and I’ve gone to individuals with multiple childcare locations. And they don’t have classroom management in place. I have noticed that they may have a dramatic play, reading, music, circle time, and science at one school, and when I go to the next school, they have arts and crafts, then they have the dramatic play, the learning boards, or what we call center time, and then they’ll have something like blocks. 

But the center they had when they first got started versus the sooner they have now are totally set up differently. So they are completely different centers. So that tells me that classroom management training is little to none existent or is not consistent throughout the organization. Now that might not apply to you because you may not own multiple locations.

 However, if you do have a childcare program and you have not written out in SOP format, what centers you have in your childcare classrooms, then that’s step one. 

How can you create a training module or how can you create any type of teacher for ongoing professional growth and development if you don’t have your foundations written now? So when you have what centers you have in your classrooms, then you can apply a training module.

So in my program, I trained my teachers, and this is key point number two, but I just want to show you, we use what we call an activity schedule. So my activity schedule was set up with my centers, color coded so all of these were my centers, and they were color coded. So every classroom, even infants, would create centers that had some magnets for the material that represented the center.