Classroom Management: No Real Recipe

Classroom management is considered to be one of the most challenging skills to master as a teacher. This is one of the main reasons why new teachers leave the profession all together.

You may wonder why? Reason being, there really is no proven method or best practice; however, individual teachers try various ways to cajole students into behaving. One way is using a reward system. Unfortunately, it may not always work.

As an educator who has taught in the classroom for eight years, I have found that consistency with follow-up to established consequences to be the most effective. Just like we teach our biological children with patience and lots of modeling, we must understand that our students at school demand the same of us. We need to teach and model what good behavior is- we cannot just mouth it and expect our students to know it. It also takes time and practice for students to be able to respect and adhere to the polices and procedures of a classroom. Of course, there will always be cases in which intervention beyond the classroom teacher is required, but these cases are usually a small percentage.

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