Preservice Teachers' Lesson Planning Competence Regarding Classroom Management and How It Relates to Teaching Quality

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Sixteen
  In Roundtable Session: Preservice Teachers' Education: Content and Pedagogical Practice (Table 5)

Abstract

Effective classroom management is an essential dimension of teaching quality and requires preventive planning of according (re)actions and measures to ensure a positive learning environment without disruptions. Still, research on lesson planning competence has not taken aspects of classroom management into account so far. Therefore, in this study, we modelled classroom-management-specific lesson planning as a competence of preservice teachers.
Based on authentic planning documents of 105 preservice teachers, we investigated whether this competence may be measured reliably and how it relates to the preservice teachers’ perceived classroom management performance in class. While the results confirmed that the competence can be reliably assessed, regression analyses revealed no predictive validity of classroom-management-specific planning competence on the observed classroom management performance in class.

Authors

• Madeleine Müller, University of Erfurt
  Presenting Author

• Isabell Tucholka, TU Dortmund University
  Presenting Author