Observation #3: Classroom Management
Classroom Management - The Hardest Challenge for New Teachers I'm not a very authoritative person. I consider myself to be approachable, relatively easy-going, and willing to joke around with my students. I strive to make my classroom an open place, where students can have fun and learn English at the same time. I think, in this instance, that I may have given my students too much freedom for their own good. My vision of their expectations and behaviors is colored by own experiences as a thirteen-year-old and I'm beginning to remember that I wasn't what one would call a typical teenager. Oh sure, I was similar enough, and I'm sure that there are children in my classroom who are mini-versions of the kind of student I was back then. But I also have failed to remember that I was a fringe kid in those days. I existed on the outside of the student community back then, and I was something of an outlier when it came to my behavior in English class specifically. So while I pa...