What is Managerial Style

In this chapter, the author describes a few interaction and intervention strategies and techniques at the level of the class as ways to create an optimal learning and socializing environment. The class of students is described not only as a learning group, but also as a social group. This conception provides the teacher useful information on how to manage the class so as to enhance positive student performance, whether it refers to behavioral, motivational, or influencing techniques. The chapter presents well-known theoretical models in literature that generate specific intervention strategies. In light of the results of numerous researches in education, the chapter synthesizes the following specific features that individualize class groups. The author presents the two instructional options often used in learning practice with sometimes opposite effects, such as cooperation and competition. Also, at the level of the chosen strategies, there is an emphasis on the moral support and support, so techniques focusing on the positive approach of the students' behavior.