Classroom Management part of the Education Reform Network

Environment & Setting

In this area there are articles that relate to the impact of the physical environment on student learning. Articles might address the difference between having the teacher's desks at the front of the room or on the side; desks in rows or grouped; access to computers in the classroom versus in a lab; open architecture for the classroom versus closed; asphalt playground versus grass; urban classroom versus suburban.

• Enhancing Students' Socialization
  ERIC Digest ED 395713 (1996) Author: Jere Brophy Research on effective practices associated with working with diverse learners in classrooms.
• How Classroom Conversation Can Support Student Achievement
  For a fuller version of this article as well as the other feature of successful classrooms, go to http://cela.albany.edu/partnership.htm.
• Seating and Room Arrangement
  Excerpted from the LEARN North Carolina Beginning Teacher Handbook.
• The Psychological Atmosphere We Create in Our Classrooms
  An essay by Adrian Underhill that models thinking out loud about one's beliefs about learners, learning, and the role of the teacher in assisting learning.
• The Social Significance of Patterns of Questioning in Classroom Discourse
  An essay on the effect of status differential in classroom talk.
• What Did You Say? Using Nonverbal Communication to Improve Teacher Effectiveness
  As much as 93% of all communication is non-verbal, suggesting that teachers can increase their effectiveness with careful attention to the unspoken as well as spoken messages they convey to students.