Eliminate Classroom Management Problems Forever

Let me make this point perfectly clear: There is a definite and direct
correlation between classroom management style and academic
achievement. If you are having problems with classroom management, then
your students will certainly have low academic achievement scores. And,
the end result is that you will not succeed as a teacher.
In response to classroom management problems, teachers immediately
start to resort to "management" plans. They assign seats, give
detention, and come up with elaborate systems of rewards and
punishments.
These are wrong!
These types of classroom management plans are not truly effective. They
are temporary solutions to ongoing problems.
The fact is in order to succeed as a teacher you must combine classroom
management with methodology in the best practices of effective
teaching.
Whether your focus is on first grade classroom management, third grade
classroom management, or twelfth grade classroom management, if your
plan is based on rewards and punishments you are only providing a
temporary solution to an ongoing problem. And, these classroom
management problems only get worse with time.
In the end, disruptive students will keep you from teaching the way you
should.
Of course, all of this will translate into low standardized test scores
and achievement scores. (And we all know how much the newspapers love
to print those scores.)
Despite what many may think, people are not born teachers. Becoming a
Master Teacher takes training and practice.
Teaching is a skill that is learned.
As a teacher mentor I love seeing the energy and enthusiasm that new
teachers bring to a school. Unfortunately, too many new teachers
quickly find themselves focusing most of their attention on classroom
management problems.
I know what new teachers and teachers early in their career go through.
In fact, I made a promise to myself to never forget how difficult the
first years of teaching can be...Not only are you learning the in's
and out's of a new school system, but you are developing curriculum
materials, designing lesson plans, grading, AND teaching.
I promise you, you CAN implement all your great teaching ideas, and you
CAN keep that enthusiasm, but only if you know the teaching strategies
that will allow you to do so.
I have seen too many teachers not survive their first couple of years
of teaching because they simply refused to take control of the
situation.
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