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Educational Management

Notes • “A system ot actions and activities are managed in classroom to induce learning through teacher-
taught relationship or interaction.”
• The Approaches to Classroom Management
• The following are the main approaches to manageing classroom activities.
(a) Herbartian approach — Herbart
(b) Evaluation approach — B.S. Bloom
(c) Managing Teaching learning — I.K. Devies
(d) Organing teaching — Memory Understanding and Reflective leves
• The approaches of teaching and classroom management reveal the great variation in the structure.
These approaches provide the general format of classroom management. The classroom
management consists of four dimensions.
(i) Physical dimensions or environment.
(ii) Social and cultural dimensions.
(iii) Psychological dimensions and
(iv) Ethical considerations and value dimensions.
• In managing classroom activities, a teacher has to consider these four dimensions.
(i) Physical Dimension or Environment : A classroom is a functional unit of an educational
institution. The location buildings lawns and classroom are designed by the manager or
founder of the institution. The classroom management concerns with seating arrangement,
light air arrangement and black board facilities.
(ii) Social and Cultural Dimension : A classroom is a miniatures of the society as well as of an
institution. A classroom management involves relationship social and cultural environment.
(iii) Psychological Dimension : It is said that no learning without motivation. The main focus of
classroom management is to facilitate learning. Teacher motivates his students verbally and
through is actions (non-verbally).
(iv) Ethical Consideration or Value Dimension : It is most important dimension of classroom
management. A teacher role in classroom management is more than a manager.
• An educational institution does not exist in a vacuum. The learners and the teachers reveal in
their attitude and behaviour, the influences of the experiences they have had in their homes
and community.
(i) Teacher as the Focus : The teacher is the significant figure in any educational institution in
communicating with the learners in the classrooms and holding joint responsibility with the
parents in the welfare of the learner’s education.
(ii) Human Relations : Human relations indicates the process by which individuals conceptualise
and relate to each other as human beings and in turn, relate to others in their society, in
specific contexts, such as educational institutions.
(iii) Teacher-Learner Relations : The learner’s behaviour as an individual, and especially as an
individual interacting with the teacher and the other learners, depends to a great extent on
the kind of teacher the learner has.
(iv) Learner-Learner Relations : The human relationships among the learners/students can either
stimulate or thwart the growth of each other in many ways.
(v) Teacher-Teacher Relations : The teacher as an individual has great potential for professional
improvement outside the classroom. One such situation is the working relationship among
the teachers.
(vi) Teacher-Administrator Relations : Teacher get opportunities to come in contact with
administrators in their daily routine of work and develop harmonious relations with them,

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