Tools for Effective Classroom Management

Classroom management includes the techniques, tools, and skills teachers use to engage students ensuring they are organized and productive academically. Wikipedia describes classroom management as a term teachers use to describe the process that ensures class lessons are smoothly run with no disruptive behavior from students in the delivery of instruction.

In contrast to what was in existence in the past when classroom management was limited to the enforcement of compliance through discipline, teachers now make use of edtech tools to teach and ensure classroom management is enhanced with ease. 

There are lots of classroom management tools, however, this write-up will discuss some of the tools based on their features for managing classrooms effectively.

When the edtech tools are used properly, they ensure learning environments are effective for students while maximizing instructional time for educators.

Group Maker

This tool helps to create and manage a variety of student groups. To allow easy identification, it lists students in the groups with their avatars by their teacher.

Class123

This tool involves parents in its process of management of teachers and the participation of students in class. It also facilitates fast feedback from teachers to students and their parents.

It has features like a digital chalkboard that allows working through problems and information display, a goal-setting option for projecting goals that students must attain at a period, and a bell for getting students’ attention and calling them to order.

ClassDojo

This tool helps to collate student data and create a report weekly or monthly based on the data collected on each student while sharing students’ information about progress with both their parents and the student in real-time with the option of translating them to any of the 30+ languages supported by the platform. 

There are classroom management tools that have timers to alert teachers and students’ onset time during tasks, noise monitors that help to monitor noise levels during class. There are some that help in maintaining and organizing education technology devices. Tools like laptops and tablets are used in physical classrooms and can be disorganized a lot of times, specifically in times of storage. 

Cabinets and/or cupboards should be assigned to students to avoid device damage.

Also, training students on device maintenance will go a long way in prolonging the shelf life of these devices.

Effective classroom management techniques reduce students’ behaviors that disrupt learning and make the most of behaviors that enhance it.