Classroom Management

Classroom management is a difficult aspect of teaching. As a matter of fact, it’s so difficult that, “Many beginning teachers struggle with classroom management and it’s a major reason many new teachers leave the profession” (Kauchak & Eggen, 2014, p. 308). Not only are new teachers struggling, but the experienced teachers are getting worn out. It takes a lot of hard work, effort, and persistence for a teacher to solely manage a classroom of twenty to thirty students at a time, but it’s not impossible. Kauchak and Eggen claimed that, “Creating a productive learning environment in your classroom is essential to effective classroom management” (p. 308). In a productive learning environment, the teacher is in charge of making the classroom a safe, warm, and welcoming atmosphere where everyone’s main goal is learning. The teacher also models responsibility, respect, and organization with the intention that students will follow. Everything that a teacher does to promote learning and development in the classroom is considered classroom management, and its “important to everyone associated with education” (Kauchak & Eggen, 2014, p. 309). It lets the public know that teachers and schools are qualified to do their job. Well managed classrooms are planned starting with four goals. The first goal is creating a positive classroom climate. There are a number of things that teachers can do to reach this goal. They can decorate their classroom with pictures, calendars, student work, fun-filled fact boards, interactive charts, and positive poster boards relaying moral messages and describing behaviors expected out of the students. They can also do introduction exercises on the first day of class or warm-up activities throughout the year. They ca...

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...lvement is also necessary for the creation to be complete. O’connor (2011) wrote, “Students must be cooperative and motivated to learn if a learning environment is to be productive, and parental support is essential for promoting this cooperation and motivation” (cited in Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional, 2014, p. 320). When teachers, parents, and students all work together the students are at a great advantage. Students with parental involvement go to college more often, have better attitudes and behaviors, turn in assignments at a greater rate, etc. This is due to teachers communicating with parents and letting them know how they can help their children with academic studies at home as well as parents or students discussing their home environment with teachers.

Works Cited

Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional Kauchak & Eggen 2014