Classroom Management

I did some substitue teaching in April. I went to see the VP to see my schedule for the day and which classes I would be in. One of the classes I was placed in was a Math Essentials 10 class. The VP also told me that he would be sitting in on the class because the students' behaviours were awful and he thought it would be necessary while I was subbing that class. When we walked into the class, there were a group of grade 10 boys wandering around the class and acting obnoxious. Immediately the VP told them to sit down and they went and sat by their friends. He then put them into a seating plan. I then explained to them their assignments that they were to work on and for the most part they did.

I realized after this day how important classroom management is to set up as soon as you have your class established from day 1. Before I went into that math class, my sister (another teacher at that school) told me nightmare stories about those specific boys because the original teacher had management problems.