This course provides postgraduate diploma students with a critical and practical understanding of how to organise classrooms for effective teaching and learning. Classroom organisation goes beyond arranging desks; it integrates physical structures, routines, time management, record keeping, discipline strategies, and teacher innovation to create a functional learning environment. By examining both theoretical principles and practical techniques, the course prepares future teachers to assume their roles as managers, facilitators, and innovators who can transform classrooms into inclusive spaces for achievement.
The course begins with the foundations of classroom organisation, exploring its meaning, scope, principles, and importance. Students learn how classroom organisation reflects professionalism, promotes inclusivity, and directly impacts learner performance. The physical dimension is examined through seating arrangements, classroom displays, and learning environments that cater for diverse learners, including those with disabilities. The non-physical dimension emphasizes routines, relationships, and rules that sustain discipline and engagement.
Time and activity management are introduced as essential skills for ensuring that instructional periods are productively used. Students will practice lesson scheduling, transitions, pacing, and time-on-task strategies that sustain learner focus and enable syllabus coverage. The course also addresses record keeping and assessment management, highlighting both traditional and digital methods of tracking attendance, performance, and continuous assessment to guide instructional decisions and accountability.
Another central focus is classroom discipline and behaviour management. Students will analyze preventive, supportive, and corrective approaches to discipline, as well as conflict resolution techniques that emphasize restorative practices over punitive control. The course highlights the teacher’s dual role as a manager and innovator, stressing the importance of leadership, creativity, and professional growth in ensuring classrooms remain dynamic and responsive to contemporary challenges.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Define and explain classroom organisation, its scope, and importance in effective teaching and learning.
- Design classroom layouts and physical environments that foster participation, inclusivity, and discipline.
- Apply principles of time and activity management to maximize learning outcomes.
- Develop and maintain accurate classroom records using both manual and digital tools.
- Demonstrate effective strategies for classroom discipline, conflict resolution, and positive behaviour management.
- Reflect on their roles as managers and innovators, using ICT and creative methods to improve classroom practice.
Practical activities such as role plays, group discussions, classroom layout sketches, record-keeping design, and reflective projects will ensure students connect theory with practice.
- Lecturer : vero mogboh