You are teaching a chemistry lesson and notice that Desiree has her hairbrush out. You just know she's going to begin using it at any minute, so you give her "the look," silently communicating that she should put it away. You have handled the situation without interruption to your lesson. Which of Kounin's classroom management skills have you exhibited?a. smoothness
b. group alerting
c. withitness
d. encouraging accountability

Overall, Kounin's classroom management model points out that teachers' success in class management was more related to the quality of class planning, organization, and execution than to their responses to student misbehavior. Still according to this study, there are five types of teacher behaviors that are most successful in maintaining student engagement in class:

withitness (ability to communicate with students through looks and gestures),
the harmonious transitions between one activity and another,
the climax (ability to keep pace with the activity),
the pursuit of group attention and the overlap (ability to coordinate different activities at the same time).

For Kounin, when a teacher corrects a student's behavior in the classroom, it directly influences the perception that other students in the class have about that behavior.