Building Your Teacher Toolbox: Five Ways to Improve Classroom Management

Lily Jones

Managing a class isn’t easy! Before you can teach content, you need to create a positive learning environment (check out our Class Culture Deep Dive for tips on how to do that). Building culture is a long process, one that eventually makes management easier. But what do you do when you need your class to calm down and focus? Or how do you deal with a student who is outright defiant?

We’ve all had moments when our students turn into wild monkeys, not listening to anything we say. Like anything related to teaching (or humans!), there’s no one-size-fits-all strategy that will work for everyone.

But adding these strategies to our toolboxes can help!