Jacob kounin withitness

Biography  Kounin began his career in 1946 as an educational psychologist at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.  He is best known for his studies on classroom management which took place during the 1970’s.  Focused on preventive discipline techniques & strategies designed to prevent occurrence problems  His findings were based on videos taken in 80 different elementary school classrooms as well experiments on college, high school and elementary school aged students over a five year period.  His book, “Discipline and Group Management in Classrooms”, published in 1977, summarizes the behaviors of both effective and ineffective management. Key Vocabulary Ripple effect Momentum Withitness Smoothness Overlapping Withitness  A teacher’s ability to know what is going on in all areas of the classroom at all times.  This trait is communicated more effectively by teachers' behaviors than by their words.  It is effective only if students are convinced that the teacher really knows what is going on.  They pick up in the 1stsign of misbehavi