3 Top Tips for Effective Classroom Management
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If you’re stuck in a rut, with your pupils running wild, then you need to give your classroom management skills a top up. Apply these three effective classroom management tips and notice an improvement in the student behavior in your classes.
Number 1. Always Stay Positive – You’re stuck in a rut in the middle of January and what happens? Yep, you become downbeat and negative.
But here’s the thing. If you’re negative, then your students will be negative too. And that will make classroom management even more difficult.
You become negative, and so do your pupils. Before you know it you are in a terrible cycle that leads to poor pupil behavior and ineffective classroom management.
Take yourself out of the bubble and try and remember why you became a teacher in the first place.
If you can walk into your classroom with a smile on your face you will get a much more positive reaction from your students.
Stay positive and effective classroom management will be so much easier to achieve.
Number 2. Praise your students until you can’t praise anymore – Praise your pupils at every possible opportunity if you want to experience a positive learning environment. You need to train your students exactly how you want them to behave, and the use of praise is an excellent way to do this.
Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Finding good pupil behavior is hard when you’re dealing with the worst kids in school. But what you need to do is actively seek out good student beavior. And then heap a ton of praise upon it.
And remember this. Even the worst students behave for brief moments! Praise that good behavior and you are training the students you teach to behave like that again in the future.
Number 3. Use the language of choice – Instead of telling children to do something, explain to them that you would like them to chose to do something. This subtle change in language is incredibly powerful and is sure to produce positive results.
An example of this would be explaining to Mike “I would like you to choose to sit down quietly”, as opposed to saying “sit down quietly”.
Classroom management is an incredibly subtle art, and small changes can have a huge impact on the relationship you have with your pupils.
Don’t believe me? Try it out tomorrow in your classroom.
Use the language of choice and you will notice a huge improvement in your classroom management skills. If you do it right that is.
