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Classroom Management: Dos and Don'ts For New Teachers

1. The document provides dos and don'ts for new teachers to effectively manage their classroom. It recommends that teachers understand how their actions influence students, plan for different learning styles and abilities, establish clear rules and routines, and use praise and positive reinforcement of appropriate behaviors. It also advises that teachers not overwhelm students with too many rules or tasks initially, and allow time for students to adjust to new routines and situations.

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Classroom Management: Dos and Don'ts For New Teachers

1. The document provides dos and don'ts for new teachers to effectively manage their classroom. It recommends that teachers understand how their actions influence students, plan for different learning styles and abilities, establish clear rules and routines, and use praise and positive reinforcement of appropriate behaviors. It also advises that teachers not overwhelm students with too many rules or tasks initially, and allow time for students to adjust to new routines and situations.

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Classroom Management: Dos and Don’ts for New Teachers

Dos
1. Realize your influence on students
2. Students will consciously and unconsciously copy you in every aspect what
you say and what you do. Be careful what impressions do you want to leave on
children.
3. Try to spend time watching other teachers manage their class.
4. Understand factors affecting human mind and notice students behaviour to
ascertain their mental condition.
5. Be flexible in your activity planning.
6. Have backup plans when a given activity is not working.
7. Use teachable moments.
8. Plan for different learning styles (i.e., visual, kinaesthetic, audio, verbal).
8. Plan for different learning ability levels.
9. Be aware of student s previous knowledge and abilities when planning learning
activities.
10. Plan activities involving movement and singing.
11. Vary the teaching environment.
12. Allow children a choice in projects.
13. Focus on the process rather than the product.
14. Let children be risk takers and make mistakes.
15. Let children figure out their mistakes.
16. Let students work in pairs or groups.
17. Assign tasks to each member of a work group (e.g., leader, helper, cleaner,
recorder).
18. Establish clear simple rules, e.g., be safe, be respectful, be responsible.
19. Establish appropriate listening and speaking behaviours.
20. Allow students to suggest appropriate rules and routines.
21. Remember that children respond well to regular routines and these should be
established early.
22. Start teaching children routines to be used in independent centres early, so they
can use these later on in the year, e.g., work quietly, ask a friend, work together,
know where all manipulatives are in a centre, complete an assigned task.
23. Praise appropriate behaviours.
24. Explain “123 Magic”.
25. Explain consequences to inappropriate behaviour.
26. Demonstrate inappropriate behaviours, have children explain what was wrong.
27. Establish looks or signals rather than drawing verbal attention to inappropriate
behaviours.
28. Establish songs and actions to gain student attention.
29. Begin speaking rather than always waiting for silence.
30. Use motivating games, situations to encourage students to line-up quickly.
31. Always make your activity appear more fun than what the lingering child is
doing.
32. For the first days of school, change a situation rather than force a child to join an
activity they don’t want.
33. Practice routines such as fire drills in small, manageable chunks to ensure success.
34. Allow extra time for changing shoes, putting on coats, the first few days (or
weeks) of school so that this activity does not become stressful.
35. Make school fun, the battle is won if the children want to go to school everyday in
September
36. Stop an activity if children are tired, by Thursday they may be worn out and not
willing to take on new tasks.
37. Let children explore their classroom to become comfortable with their
surroundings.
Don’ts
1. Overwhelm children with rules and routines the first few days of school.
2. Overwhelm children with too much talking the first few days.
3. Force children to answer too many questions or perform too many tasks.
4. Expect routines to work well the first few days.
5. Judge children by their behaviour and performance the first few days, give them time
to adjust to routines and new situations.
6. Don’t give too many worksheets. Allow students opportunity to complete open ended
activities.
7. Leave the impression that school will be all hard work, that you have to sit all day.
8. Don’t have the classroom fully decorated. Let children decide what art to put up and
where it should go.
9. Leave material and manipulatives out unless you want the children to use them.
10. Have too many choice materials at each centre.
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Jeanette Laaning and Carmen Rowse*
* Both Jeanette and Carmen are experienced teachers. Jeanette has been teaching for the
last two decades, and Carmen for the last twelve years.

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