It is important to keep high expectations in your classroom. Holding your students to high expectations will also raise your students’ expectations of themselves. If they see that you hold them to a high standard they will begin to believe that they can achieve to a high standard, thus increasing their self-esteem and confidence.
Along the same lines, you should not expect that your students will misbehave…you should expect that they will behave appropriately. This should be reinforced when you speak to your students so that they know what your expectations of them are. You might say, “During this group activity, I expect you to raise your hands and wait to be called upon before you answer aloud. I also expect you to respect each other’s opinions and listen to what each person has to say without interrupting.” When classroom disturbances do occur…
The best way to gain the respect of your students and have a better behaved and controlled classroom is by putting forth an effort to get to know your students. If you build positive student-teacher relationships, your students will be more likely to pay attention to you, and less likely to disrespect you by acting out. In order to build upon and improve your student-teacher relationships…
Students absolutely hate hostile teachers whose only strategy for dealing with challenging students is punishment and shouting. However, when we are pushed to our limits and our instructions are ignored, it’s easy to dig ourselves into a hole in an attempt to regain control and re-establish authority by issuing unwarranted, excessive punishments. The best way to avoid this situation altogether, is to ensure that our instructions are given in a way that ensures understanding and compliance. The instructions you give to your students are …
We all know that practical subjects are generally greeted more favorably by students, but that doesn’t mean we can’t structure classroom-based lessons effectively to make them more appealing. It is important because disruptive children can’t handle unstructured time. So if your lessons aren’t packed with appropriate, interesting tasks, and you don’t have more up your sleeve for emergencies, then you will be asking for trouble. All lessons should …
If you have come to the conclusion that you have no power over the ineffective systems that are being used to control student behavior, you must now be wondering, ‘what now’. Clearly, you cannot continue to accept the problem behavior, so how can you make positive changes? The answer is to deal with the only thing that you do have direct control over…YOU. When it comes to controlling student behavior …
Even though designing lesson plans that are engaging for every individual while keeping within the framework of an academically-weighted curriculum can be a very difficult task, when you get it right it is an excellent way to avoid problem behaviors. When it comes to managing your classroom…
