Some Tips For Classroom Management
● Take control of where the kids sit. Even if you don’t allocate the exact seats, get each student simply to sit in a different seat from the one they had in the last class.
● Keep desktop clutter to a minimum – provide pencils/paper, etc yourself.
● If you want the kids to move around, give clear instructions, including a quick diagram on the board even, before they start moving.
● Divide the lesson into ‘circle time’ for presentations, games, recycling, etc, and ‘table time’ for book-based work.
● A non-verbal signal to be quiet is better than a loud noise or raising your voice – don’t get into a competition with them!
● The fewer and simpler the rules, the better.
● Positive reinforcement is better than negative commands: try asking noisy students to do something specific or answer a question rather than saying Stop …!
● Remove misbehaving students from their audience (the rest of the class). Put them just outside the door, in the back of a colleague’s classroom, in the corner out of the sight line of the other students, etc.