Jacob kounin biography classroom management ppt
Jacob Kounin was an educational psychologist and classroom management theorist....
Kounin's model of classroom discipline focuses on preventative techniques like withitness, overlapping, effective transitions, and reducing satiation.
Jacob Kounin: Instructional Management - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Title: Jacob Kounin: Instructional Management
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Jacob KouninInstructional Management
- By Aimee Chard and Rebecca Godbout
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Biography
- Started his career as an educational psychologist
at Wayne State University in 1946. - He is best known for his studies completed in the
1970s on classroom management. - Kounins studies took place over 5 years and he
experimented on college, high school and
elementary school aged students. - Research was based on video tapes on 80
elementary school classrooms.Started his career as an educational psychologist at Wayne State University in “The business of running a classroom is a complicated technology having to. - Wrote a book called Discipline and Group
Management in Classrooms, which summarized the
behaviours of classroom managers.
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Biography Continued
- He found that organization and planning are keys
to good classroom management. - Teachers need good lesson movement.
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Central Tenets of Theory
- Kounin believed in proactive behaviour on the
part of the teacher and high levels of student
involvement.