Having control of a class when teaching
One of the frightening challenges that newly qualified teachers, and sometimes experienced ones too, is classroom management issues and lack of control. Disruptive behaviour can pose a real threat to the learning and teaching process and often times it turns a teacher’s life into a living nightmare which very often can even lead to a teacher giving up their job.
I have come up with a few handy tips to keep the classroom in order:
1: Make sure that the children are interested and kept busy. When children become bored this is often when they play up and start causing disruption.
2: Be fair and consistent. This means making sure that any punishment is adequate and not over the top. The levels of behaviour expected should remain consistent along with the punishment .
3: Keep calm and avoid anger. Teachers who lose their temper can say and do things in the heat of the moment that they come to later regret. Certainly all teachers on occasions will feel the need to speak sharply to children, but this quite different from heated outbursts in the classroom.
