Comments on: Classroom Management Questions http://www.classroommanagement101.com/blog/classroom-management-questions Classroom Management Tips Galore! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:12:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Joel http://www.classroommanagement101.com/blog/classroom-management-questions#comment-11 Joel Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:01:48 +0000 http://www.classroommanagement101.com/blog/classroom-management-questions#comment-11 I think it would be tremendously difficult to have a well-behaved class if I only taught them once a week. This is one of the reasons I teach band and don't ever want to teach elementary music. In my district, each elementary music teacher has their classes (all grades, about 1,200 students) once a week for 45 minutes. This poses classroom management issues for a number of reasons. With the younger students, keeping their focus for 45 minutes can be a nightmare. Any activity that lasts longer than 15 minutes might as well be thrown out, or put on hold until the next week. For the older students -- as well as the younger ones -- it makes lesson planning difficult. On a long-term scale, this means that each student will have your class 216 times from the first day of kindergarten until they finish fifth grade. That's not even three semesters worth. As a result, you have to be hyper-focused and not waste any time. For this reason, classroom management is something that must be constantly taught in these situations., while still <a href="http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/2007/06/10/how-do-you-keep-them-learning/" rel="nofollow">keeping them learning</a>. It's got to be a huge challenge! I think it would be tremendously difficult to have a well-behaved class if I only taught them once a week. This is one of the reasons I teach band and don’t ever want to teach elementary music. In my district, each elementary music teacher has their classes (all grades, about 1,200 students) once a week for 45 minutes.

This poses classroom management issues for a number of reasons. With the younger students, keeping their focus for 45 minutes can be a nightmare. Any activity that lasts longer than 15 minutes might as well be thrown out, or put on hold until the next week.

For the older students — as well as the younger ones — it makes lesson planning difficult. On a long-term scale, this means that each student will have your class 216 times from the first day of kindergarten until they finish fifth grade. That’s not even three semesters worth. As a result, you have to be hyper-focused and not waste any time. For this reason, classroom management is something that must be constantly taught in these situations., while still keeping them learning. It’s got to be a huge challenge!

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