Good methods for classroom management?

Question

...in secondary education?

Answer 1

allways be nice to them and never give them hard work if you think thet cant handle it, Always reward them if you think they have dine simething good or have behaved well i give my students some sweets sometime but i am an ICT teacher so i mainly let them have 5 mins at the end game time.

Answer 2

A ring of rat traps around your desk and since guns arnt allowed a BIG OL STICK

Answer 3

phone calls home

lunch detention

some type of reward/incentive program

equality

Answer 4

Create a nice bonding with the kids, be relaxed and laid back. When you want something done, explain why it needs to be done and the benefits of it. Talk to people and give a fair share of help and attention to everyone. Remain calm at all times, and if a person does something they shouldn't be doing, send them out of the classroom to show you won't tolerate bad behaviour. Try to send the message across to everyone about what you may be going through, as in having to teach so many kids. Add good, clean humour to your lessons and make work less of a chore.

Answer 5

CONSISTENCY is the key!

Answer 6

I like to recommend Fred Jones's Tools for Teaching.  It's all stuff that's pretty practical and focuses on a lot of prevention strategies to avoid problems in the first place.  He's also got a lot of really good "after the fact" strategies.  

The key is finding that balance between standing firm and being flexible.  If you're too much of a tyrant, the kids will be challenging you every step of the way.  If you're too wishy-washy, they'll walk all over you.

Judging by some of the answers already, I'd say it may be a bad time of year to be asking.  (Discipline gets a lot harder the closer you get to a break--especially summer break.)

Answer 7

Walk and sound confident, and just write a list of 'bad names' - if its the whole class being 'naughty', make the whole class come back after break. While they might get annoyed about this, they will get bored of coming back for a detention every day and will eventually do as they're told.

Answer 8

Just be friendly, let them know you are not "The Enemy" let them also know that you have feelings too.

The younger generation are not as bad as they are portrayed to be.

Answer 9

There are so many, what grade are your talking about? Broadly speaking I love Harry Wong's style. If you are talking about specific strategies I am a fan of "catch them being good"

Answer 10

Set high expectations

Provide academic Support

Prepare engaging Lessons

Praise effort

Be a teacher who cares about the students AND the material taught

Be consistent

Be fair

Sounds simple, but it works.  Think about why students misbehave.  They are bored.  They don't feel capable of doing the work.  They don't see the purpose.  The teacher doesn't seem to care either about student and/or material.  They don't know what to do to stay in good graces because you change expectations.  They don't like you because you play favorites.  

Seems like an oversimplification, but it works.  I teach younger children currently, but these requirements work with the youngest children as well as teens and adults.

Answer 11

Read Harry Wong's book, there is no better text on classroom management. My own golden rules are:

1) Be an expert in your subject area

2) Be an expert in the way the school is run

3) Plan interesting, engaging lessons that keep your students busy

4) Have high personal standards of grooming and dress

5) Be on time to class

6) Discipline students for minor infractions of the rules from day one

7) Set homework, let them know that your class is not "time off"

8) Use praise regularly

9) Sort out discipline issues with your students rather than going to administration

10)Be polite

Answer 12

The most important thing is you have to set the tone from the first minute of the first day in class.  Greet students at the door.  Have a seating chart displayed and direct students to their seats as they enter.  Have something for them to do, like a warm-up or an information sheet, while you are taking attendance and seating the stragglers.  

Have well-planned lessons that hold their interest. Try to have something fun each day. Minimize transition time between activities.  Always have crystal clear directions in writing in addition to verbally explaining the directions for any activity.  

Go over behavior expectations the first day and rigorously enforce them - no warnings, just apply the consequence for the behavior.  

Be nice!  If a student breaks a rule, don't get mad - treat it as the student vs. the rule instead of the student vs. the teacher.  Get to know your students and let them get to know you.  Tell them about your life, interests, etc.  If they like you and see you as a real person they are more likely to behave for you.