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CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Although a year 11 class should require little behavioural management, there are a variety of students with diverse abilities and interests in history. It is extremely important to provide an effective classroom management plan to ensure that a cooperative, interactive, positive and productive classroom is created which will keep all students motivated to learn history. This would be effectively achieved by the creation of clear class rules, which all students will be expected to follow while they are in the class. It will be important for the students to understand the roles that people play in terms of their learning, for example what role they play and what role the teacher will play during these senior years of school. The students will need to understand that unlike the earlier years of school they will have to rely less on teacher centered learning and more on their own motivation and what they hope to achieve in their HSC to drive them to do well in class. The different roles which the students should be aware of are:
 * Student: Student should take responsibility and ownership of learning; and through self-regulation, goal setting, and motivation, they should be able to do well within the class regardless of their historical interest and skills.
 * Teacher: The main role of the teacher is to teach the students the skills that are necessary for history, such as historical inquiry and critical thinking. The teacher should also work to provide the students with guidance, support, scaffolding, reinforcement, encouragement, assessment and constructive feedback.

As there are a number of different skill levels and interests within this class it will be necessary to ensure that the students have an opportunity to work with other students within the classroom. Albert Bandura’s Social-Cognitive Theory of education states, students learn by observing others. Albert Bandura argues that “Most human behaviours are learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one is able to form an idea of how new behaviours are performed, and on later occasions this information serves as a guide for actions in similar situations” (Bandura, 1977, p. 22). What can be done for those students who are unable or are poor at source analysis? They could be paired or put into groups with the students who have the ability to do source analysis well. These students will be an extremely useful tool to help those students who are having difficulties. Building a collaborative learning environment assists the overall classroom management requirements. Although this could work, it needs to be closely monitored to ensure that the students are not simply paired with their friends so that they actually do the work. Bandura, A. (1977). Social cognitive theory. New Jersey : Englewood Cliffs.