Classroom Management For Secondary Teachers

1. Be clear in your expectations at all times

Pupils in a primary school have the same teacher for almost all of their lessons. Day after day.

However, this is not the case in a secondary school. The students that you teach very have lessons with a variety of different teachers in a variety of different classrooms.

And each teacher will have different rules and expectations. The students that you teach cannot behave as you would like if you don't make your expectations clear from the start.

Remember that the behavior that you expect might be substantially different to what is expected in another classroom. Make your expectations clear and you will notice and improvement in the behavior within your classroom.

2. Liaise with other teachers

In large secondary schools it's often impractical to communicate with other relevant teachers daily regarding the behavior of students that you teach.

But this poor communication is often a cause of worsening student behavior. If students feel that they can misbehave in your classroom without further sanctions, because you are not communicating the issues to the relevant people, then student behavior will deteriorate in your classroom.

Communicate frequently with other teachers in your school regarding good and bad student behavior and you will notice and improvement in the levels of student discipline in your classroom.

3. Always apply threatened sanctions

In large secondary schools it's often extremely difficult to follow through with all of our sanctions. When you teach dozens, if not hundreds, of students remembering who missed a detention and who needs a letter to be sent home is tough.

But as hard as classroom management is when you have a lot of students to teach you MUST always follow through with your threats.

Failure to apply threatened sanctions will lead to worse student behavior and deteriorating classroom discipline.

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