Classroom Management
There are many ways to approach classroom management but regardless of which methods you choose you must have “control” before you can teach. I don’t mean militant control but your students must know act appropriately before learning can take place.
The paradox is that more rules are not generally better. Less is more.
My three classroom rules are:
1. Be Punctual
2. Be Prepared
3. Be Polite
Just about everything falls under these three rules!
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Some teachers write the names of students that are misbehaving on the board. Try the opposite. Kids like to be recognize and why not recognize the positive?
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Move around the classroom. Your presence alone can be a powerful motivator.
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Try just using eye contact without speaking. They’ll get it.
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Take the entire issue out of the equation! Plan the time and lessons so that there aren’t opportunities for issues. Actively engaged students are just that – engaged with the task at hand!
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.