Is Your Classroom A Nightmare To Manage?

Educating our youth is becoming more and more challenging each day. Depending on where you live, you may or may not have state testing regulations to deal with as well. These only throw an additional monkey wrench into the process. Throw inner city kids with little home supervision into the mix and you end up with more than a handful of problems.

As a result of these and other factors, managing a classroom becomes quite a challenge to even the most experienced teacher. And those who are just starting out without tenure have more their work cut out for them. It’s a roller coaster ride that’s almost impossible to get off and nowhere near as pleasant as the one at your nearest amusement park.

So where do you begin? How do you begin to make sense out of all the chaos? Well, for starters, you need to sit down and go over the class curriculum and whatever state requirements there are for your particular subject. Many times, these two things by themselves will pretty much box you in to what you have to do, let alone what you’d like to do.

For example, if you’re teaching high school math in the state of New Jersey, students have to be prepared to take their HESPA, which pretty much dictates gearing your instruction to the test itself and not so much to what the student “needs” to learn. It’s a sad but true state of education system today.

Then of course each school district has its own regulations and requirements for just about every little thing you can think of, from what “items” need to go up on your bulletin board to how your plan book needs to be kept. Some schools require them to be entered into a computer system while others are still working off of paper. How difficult each is depends on what you’re used to.

If classroom management is stressful to you, there is a review of a great resource in my signature that will make managing your classroom a lot easier and a whole less stressful. I think you’ll find it most helpful.

Don’t let your classroom get to you. Not when there is no need to.