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There is no one-size-fits-all plan. What works will exist somewhere at the intersection of your personality and the class's personality.But here are some general tips.
1) KISS. Keep it simple. I've been at it for almost thirty years, and my classroom rules boil down to: We're here so you can learn and I can help you. Anything that interferes with that is not okay.
2) Be consistent. Class to class, day to day.
3) Don't smile till Christmas. You've heard this one before no doubt, but it's true-- it's soooo much easier to lighten up than to tighten up.
4) Don't take it personally. You're new. They're going to take shots at you, but they don't see you as a person. Just a teacher. So if you react as if you've been personally affronted and attacked, they sense weakness and lose respect.
5) Positive is easier to enforce than negative. IOW, it's easier to get them to do something than to not do something. Focusing them back on task is more effective than telling them to stop talking, stop turning around, stop whatever. Tell them what you want them to do, not what you don't want them to do.
There are of course more, but I think these are some of the most basic. Good luck to you!
There isn't one. Nobody has found "the best" so far. You will have to find your own style. And remember, you may be the same teacher but each group of students, each class is different. They even change attitudes from day to day and from hour to hour. Do not expect them to behave the same at the end of the day or week, when they are tired.
I have been teaching for 31 years now, and a specific classroom management style that I use in one class would not work in the next room. Sometimes (if you are lucky) you will get a class that does not need any rules. They just behave well out of respect to the teacher, lesson, and school. There are also classes that just deny everything. They take a sadistic pleasure in disrupting the lesson, though they will regret it years later.
Just try to be friendly, but not too friendly; strict, but not too strict. Something like "sweet and sour" :)
Good luck to you in your career.
p.s. there are lots of ideas on the web.
Create a routine for EVERYTHING. Kids thrive on normalcy and expectation- so this is the best way I think. (I teach middle school). They should know how to do everything routinely- how to go to the bathroom, get drinks, getting out of their seats, turning homework in, getting their grades, answering questions in class, etc.
Establish your rules and FOLLOW them. And it never hurts to be a tough@ss for the first few weeks so they know who's the boss!
That, and buy Harry Wong's book!
Stomp their guts out. Not literally. What I'm saying is be very hard and stick to you rules as if they are law for the first two months. Repeat procedures over and over until students can do everything they need to do inside of your classroom without even thinking about it. Your class will think you are tough and will complain but believe me by the end of the school year your kids will do whatever you say, if fact you probably won't have to say anything at all because they will know what you expect.
I'm starting my third year of teaching, and like others have said, your behavioral management strategies will change, but I think they change more as you grow as a teacher than with the group of students you get. I went to Barnes and Noble's Education section one day and sat and perused many different behavioral management books. I tend to use Jim Faye and David Funk's "Teaching with Love and Logic" with my students because I teach high school and I emphasize the importance of choices. Be consistent, whatever you do. If you teach high school, you can adapt your behavioral management more readily than in elementary school, at least in my experience.
Blessing!
I teach 8th grade social studies and also teach a college course on classroom management...
Make sure to teach and practice procedures. Read this post I made on my blog: http://teaching-tips-machine.com/blog/?p...
Also, stay away from those elaborate reward/punishment systems...they will provide only temporary solution and may actually backfire...instead you want to be "proactive"...in other words, the best classroom management plan is a strong instructional plan.
Visit this site for more info on the proactive approach to classroom management: http://www.classroom-management-tips.com...
Oh yeah...PLEASE, PLEASE smile on the first day AND every day after that...the "don't smile until Christmas" is one of the worst things you can do as a teacher and has absolutely NOTHING to do with classroom management. Would you want your child to take a class from a teacher who did not smile? Of course not!
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