At our popular Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and
Counsel Troubled Youth Workshops, we always let the course
participants name the problem areas they want to cover
during the inservice workshop. We can always count
on teachers asking for ideas for classroom management
and control. Nearly every teacher has had moments
when maintaining control over the class was difficult
or impossible. Some teachers tell us that their class
has actually gotten out of control. Here’s help.
So many students believe that they should be in charge
of the classroom and that they know more than the
teacher. It can be tough to teach hard-to-manage
students who think they should be in charge. Since few
schools have a written game plan to formally train their
kids to be students, you may see a lot of younger and
older youth who do not look, act or sound like students.