Kickstart The New Year With Classroom Management

Its Classroom Management Season!

2024 is in the rearview mirror and with the coming of the new year the halfway point in the school year is here! What better time than right after the break to talk about the importance of classroom management.

When it comes to teaching at any level, classroom management considerations aren’t so much a solvable problem as they are an ongoing  feature of the dynamic system that is your classroom. 

It's the kind of thing which needs to be worked at for your desired outcomes to be achieved. A set of skills in constant need of development. And an ongoing attempt to address a whole host of fatiguing factors in need of scheduled maintenance in order to keep up with ever changing road conditions. 

The Big 5 By 2 & Classroom Management

In my own teaching experience, classroom management has proven to be one of those topics which is both seminal and perpetual. So much so that it sits in the number 2 position of my personal ‘Big 5 By 2’ of pedantic and powerful categorizations of just what teachers get up to. 

Mr. S’s Big 5 By 2 Of Teaching

Teacher + Student

• Wellness

• Classroom Management

• Logistics

• Curriculum Delivery

• Personal Development

The Classroom Management Equation 

Classroom management is also one of those realities that exists along the dichotomy of whether teaching exists as something more akin to an art or a science. No matter your teaching style, your approach to classroom management will always benefit from having elements of both.

My own conception of what this looks like is an equation in process which looks like this: 

Classroom Management 

=

(Expectations * Time) / ( Consequence * Space) 

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Consistency

Is it perfect?

No.

But it is a starting point for a process which is best understood as always being ‘in process.’  Which brings us to the topic for this months blog entries here on Eduwise

A Month Devoted To Classroom Management 

This January, we will be looking at how: the relationship between setting clear expectations, investing time, and enforcing clear consequences in the space that is your classroom on a consistent basis can help new teachers not just to survive, but also start to thrive. Ideally in ways which will help them to make more time for those moments where they can make a positive impact on their student’s lives. 

Sound interesting? 

Then stay tuned to EduWise!