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The document summarizes the Kounin Model of classroom management developed by Jacob Kounin. The model focuses on preventative discipline techniques to avoid problems. Key ideas include the teacher maintaining awareness of the entire classroom, keeping students actively engaged, addressing multiple issues simultaneously, providing enjoyable and challenging lessons, and reducing student satiation through progress, challenges, enthusiasm and variety. The model emphasizes the ripple effect of correcting one student's behavior positively impacting others, withitness or classroom awareness, overlapping issues, effective transitions, and group focus.

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Kounin Model

The document summarizes the Kounin Model of classroom management developed by Jacob Kounin. The model focuses on preventative discipline techniques to avoid problems. Key ideas include the teacher maintaining awareness of the entire classroom, keeping students actively engaged, addressing multiple issues simultaneously, providing enjoyable and challenging lessons, and reducing student satiation through progress, challenges, enthusiasm and variety. The model emphasizes the ripple effect of correcting one student's behavior positively impacting others, withitness or classroom awareness, overlapping issues, effective transitions, and group focus.

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The Kounin Model

Jacob S. Kounin

By: Tracy Eilerman


EDE 702
Summer 2002
Jacob Kounin
• Focuses on preventive discipline --
techniques and strategies designed to
prevent the occurrence of discipline
problems in the first place.
• Good classroom management depends
on effective lesson management.
Kounin’s Principle Teachings
• Teachers need to be attentive to all
aspects of the classroom.
• Effective teachers keep students
attentive and actively involved.
• Teachers should be able to attend to
two activities at the same time.
• Activities should be enjoyable and
challenging.
Kounin’s Key Ideas
The Ripple Effect
Withitness
Overlapping
Effective Transitions
Group Focus
Satiation
The Ripple Effect
• The "ripple effect"
occurs when the
teacher corrects a
misbehavior in
one student, and
this positively
influences the
behavior of other
nearby students.
Withitness
• Awareness of
what is going on
in all parts of the
classroom at all
times.
Overlapping
• Being able to
attend to two or
more issues at
the same time.
Effective Transitions
• Keeping lessons
moving with
avoiding abrupt
changes.
Group Focus
• The ability to
keep members of
the class or group
paying attention
to the task
Satiation
• Being satisfied or
having enough
Teachers can reduce satiation
by:

 Providing a feeling of progress


 Offering challenges throughout the
lesson
 Being enthusiastic
 Adding VARIETY to the lesson
For more about Jacob
Kounin’s theories, check out
his book:
Discipline and Group
Management in Classrooms

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