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What's The Best Classroom Management Advice You've Gotten?
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Larry Ferlazzo
I teach English & Social Studies at inner-city high school in Sacramento,CA
Posted on 11/9/2009
I thought it might be useful/interesting if people shared the best piece of classroom management advice they've gotten/read/heard...
Mine comes from Marvin Marshall, who is my favorite (by far) writer/thinker on positive classroom management. He’s written a question that we as teachers might want to consider asking ourselves regularly. He wrote:
Will what I am about to do or say bring me closer or will it push me away farther from the person with whom I am communicating?
Of course, we’re just human and all of this is far “easier said than done.” But it’s not a bad level to aspire towards…
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Dr. Martin Brokenleg
Dr. Brokenleg said throughout an educator's day you have many opportunities for Bids for Attention--you may not like all of them---but what you choose to do with them will depend on whether you build connections with students or push them farther away---we all want to belong/want to be part of community
Ross Greene also hands out some wise advice---children would if they could---it is not that students are choosing to be defiant, they just don't possess other more prosocial skills---we must help build their lagging skills---
Its time to change our lens on classroom mgmt---it is not a matter of controlling an environment but building moral values---build relationships and you will have a learning environment. Do we really want an end goal to be an environment of complaince?