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Classroom behavior management is important for all teachers in order to run classrooms efficiently and to create a productive learning environment. Follow these tips and your students will begin to respect you and your classroom.
Stress the importance of education to your students. Make it clear to your students that their misbehavior restricts their learning and their futures. Communicate regularly the importance of what you are teaching and how it is applicable to their lives.
Enforce classroom consistency. Present rules and expectations to the class from the first day. Let the students know what will always be the consequence of certain bad actions and behaviors. Establish routines, structure and classroom tone. Reinforce them as the year progresses.
Have fun with your students. Encourage laughing and fun activities in your classroom. Your students will behave if they enjoy what they are doing. Work to plan assignments and projects that are interesting and captivate attention.
Manage bad behavior in the right way. Never yell at students when they are misbehaving. Instead talk sternly to them using a quite, serious voice. Always explain why a bad behavior is not appropriate, as some students have not yet been taught particular aspects of right and wrong. Never use embarrassment as a way of punishment, or reprimand a student in front of their peers. Rather pull the student outside and make eye contact with them. Public discipline causes a student to save face rather than apologize and listen to reason, it also humiliates and causes student resentment.
Give respect in order to be respected. Your students will respect you if you give them the respect they deserve. Encourage all of your students equally. Reward good behavior by offering your class privileges such as homework passes, movies, snacks and even field trips. Plan activities that you know your students will enjoy. Students participate more when their interests and feelings are taken into consideration.
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