Okay, I’ve just finished putting the final touches to a new classroom management video. Now, I’m no hot shot director, BUT I’m pretty happy with my latest attemp at making anything resembling a decent video.
Yes, it’s a bit silly. But then silly can be good sometimes! Hopefully the sillyness of this video will help spread the effective classroom management message of this teacher blog.
I’ll stop the fanfare now, and introduce ‘Classroom Management…and Jaws’, my latest creation. Yeah, it’s a bit silly, but then who said there was anything wrong with being silly?!
Hit the video below and my latest classroom management video will play. Enjoy
With more and more teachers suffering an ever increasing amount of teacher stress at the hands of negative student behavior, it is of no surprise to find so many teachers coming online to try and find effective classroom management tips.
There is no doubt that effective classroom management can provoke positive behavior in the students you teacher, while at the same time helping to reduce teacher stress.
Different teachers have different standards of behavior that they expect from the students they teach, and so ideas about what is inappropriate pupil behavior, and what is an effective classroom management plan varies from teacher to teacher.
In my opinion, classroom management is effective when you are able to minimise innapropriate student behavior, and promote a positive learning atmosphere.
How you achieve a positive learning environomnet in your classroom is secondary to actually achieving it.
Some people tell you that in order to have effective classroom management strategies you must be a strict teacher. Others will tell you that the opposite is true.
It’s important to realize however that we are all professionals with different skills and different personalities. Stop trying to follow one one good classroom mangement model, and understand that we are all made different, and so we will all teach differently.
Effective clasroom management will differ from teacher to teacher. How the teacher minimises inaproprate classroom behavior isn’t that important. What is important is that the teacher uses their unique skills to promote positive student behavior in the classroom.
