Classroom Management is defined as the direction of activities in the classroom, which includes routine and discipline. It permits activities to be carried on efficiently and economically. It establishes favorable working conditions and effective procedure that permits activities to be carried on efficiently. Classroom Management focuses on three major components: content management, conduct management, and covenant management. Each of these concepts is defined and elucidated by Froyen & Iverson, (1999) as follows:
Major Components of Classroom Management | Content Management | Conduct Management | Covenant Management | Definition | It occurs when teachers manage space, materials, equipment, the movement students, and lessons that are part of a curriculum or program of studies. | It refers to the set of procedural skills that teachers employ in their attempt to address and resolve discipline problems in the classroom. | It focuses on the classroom group as a social system that has to its own features that teachers have to take into account when managing interpersonal relationships in the classroom. | Observable Behaviors under each component | * movement management, group focus * avoidance of satiation, * management of daily review sessions * management of daily preview sessions * management of lectures/presentations sessions * management of individual/groups in-class work *