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5 Ways Teachers Can Improve Their Classroom

Management Skills

1. Hope is not a classroom management

strategy

lets just set the ideal classroom aside and

work with what weve got. Resistant

studentsare

going to be a part of our livessowhy not simply embrace them? We cant rely

on hope alone to transform our classrooms, so

why not start planning for a good challenge

(just like we prepare our lesson plans) before

the challenge arrives?


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2. Make collaboration and mentoring a part of the culture

A semi-recent study (2007)found that beginning teachers often work 10 to 12-hour

dayscreating lesson plans, grading, attending meetings and other extracurricular

school events. This doesnt even take into account the preparation and gradingthat happens on the weekends. Why 10-12 hour days? There are a number of

explanations, but heres something to ask yourself: Does our school

support collaboration, mentoring and teacher development?

The most effective teacher leaders are often those who work in schools that

support team workand collaborationamong colleagues. When principals put

an emphasis on teamwork, foster continuing education, provide curriculum buildingworkshops, etc., teachers are more likely to grow, relax and collaborate.
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3. Role play or practice classroom management

strategies

Teachers may intend to react to a disruptive student in a

well-measured way, but that can go out the window inan instant. Its one thing to read about classroom

management in a book and another to experience

misbehavior or disruption firsthand. We improve

through practice and mimicry. Why not have teachers

role play hypothetical classroom management

experiences with a mentor or colleague?


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4. Save your energy and let technology do the talking for you

If students are particularly rambunctious, theres no need to strain your voice or

get frustrated. Give some of these sly, low-energy maneuvers a try:

Quietly walk over to the light switch and flick them on and off

Walk over to your computer, click on your Spotify appand slowly turn up the

volume on, oh, how about Chopins Nocturne for Piano, No. 8 in D flat Major.

This will silence them.

Pull out an object that is associated with the lesson, hold it up and start looking at

it. Ask your students to tell you what they see; then ask them why you brought it.
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5. Know when enough is enough

So youve verbalizedand modeled clear expectations; you tried being

assertive rather than antagonistic; you spoke with the student after class likewe suggested in a recent classroom management blog?It didnt work?

When all else fails, swallow your pride and kindly ask the student to sit

outside of the room or head to the office. As Mike Anderson suggests, we

need to debunk the myth that good teachers should be able to handle

student meltdowns by themselves. This simply isnt true.
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References

http://onlinegrad.marygrove.edu/blog/bid/162165/5-Ways-Teachers-Can-

Improve-Their-Classroom-Management-Skills
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