Managing Urban Classrooms

• In Event: 66.058 - Experience and Interaction in Classroom Management

Abstract

This study investigates five beginning urban teachers' experience with classroom management. Looking primarily at their classroom management beliefs and strategies and how those two constructs change throughout the teachers' first year of teaching, this qualitative study identifies different that teachers change significantly throughout this time. Field visits, interviews, and video recordings are used to capture the teachers' management practice in action and open up their thinking about how they approach and reflect on their management practice.

Author

• Andrew Kwok, University of Michigan