I am a future elementary teacher. I am very curious of the different strategies that teachers use in their classrooms that they feel really work. I appreciate any answers.
What Classroom Management Techniques or Strategies do you use in your classroom?
#1 by sunfried_84 on September 2nd, 2010
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I teach 8th grade, so with them things will be totally different than what someone would apply to an elementary classroom, but here is what I do. First, with middle school students they want to be treated like an adult, so I try to do that. I am very no nonsense with them. If they mess up, I pull them aside and let them know. Never reprimand a student in front of others. It will only make him or her more defiant of you. I also only have a few rules that I will completely enforce. The more rules you have the more you set the kids up for failure. You break those rules you will be given an office behavior report. Sometimes I get creative and make the punishment fit the crime. For example, I had a student who would draw on his desk. So I had him stay after school one day to clean all the desks in my room. He has not done it since. I am not a yeller with my students and they appreciate that. When I do yell, which is rarely, they shut up and listen because they know they really messed up. I am polite to them (I call them ma’am and sir a lot), I try to treat them like adults, and I show them respect. I rarely have behavior problems in my class following those three things.