Week 12. Classroom Management

Classroom management is definitely one of the most important teaching aspects teachers have to deal with every day.  How can we manage a group where you have students that don’t participate in class, others that are always somewhere in this world but not in class, the student or students that love to talk and talk and keep talking about their plans after class or the party they had on the weekend, and of course the one that likes to calls everybody’s attention, and besides you have to give your class and finish the school program. It sounds impossible but it isn’t, first of all we have to understand our students and remind ourselves every second that they are adolescents and that they are experiencing a lot of changes, then we have to receive some kind of training by experts who can help us manage all this situations. But the most important aspect is to be patient, as the reading says: being calm: strength, being upset: weakness. Even though sometimes being calm is very difficult, at least for me, we have to try and breathe because the students enjoy when you get mad.

Finally, classroom management requires teacher experience, rules, and love for our students.