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Choose the Right Classroom Management Strategies to Remove Classroom Chaos

You were meant to be a teacher!  But sometimes  your classroom management strategies don’t seem to be working, and teaching feels hard. 

You have dedicated time to training and experience.  And yet . . .

Using effective classroom management strategies is essential to your success.

With the right classroom management strategies you can remove classroom chaos.

Sometimes the challenges of teaching can lead us to the feeling that we are imposters. 

Experienced teachers have shared that they have experienced imposter syndrome as a teacher.

And I have experienced it too.  🥴

An image of a teacher talking o a students with text that reads,'The right classroom management strategies empower you to be the teacher you want to be.'.
Battle imposter syndrome with proven classsroom management strategies. You are not alone.

Why is classroom management important?

Feeling called to teaching and being passionate about teaching are not enough.

The good news is that there is lots of research showing us what works. 

With the right classroom management strategies you can renew student engagement and maintain your passion.

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Research-based classroom management strategies are the right classroom management strategies.
They have been effective in many, many classrooms.

Why is student engagement important?

With effective strategies for student engagement you remove the chaos.  

In engaged classrooms dysregulated chaos is removed. Instead you can have an active, bustling, maybe even appropriately noisy, classroom, and everyone will be working happily on task.

I don’t just believe that to be true.  I know that to be true.

That was my class. 🥰

This is a large mural that I did with each class when we studied the rainforest. This was a multi-day event, and often students were expected to know their task and work at it independently. I answered lots of questions during these projects, but I can’t remember having to manage any behaviour. That was already in place.

How does classroom management affect learning?

With effective classroom management strategies everyone knows what to do, what to expect, how to treat each other, and how they will be treated. 

These are things most of us need to have in place in order to do our jobs.  So, using the right classroom management techniques is essential for a safe functional learning environment.

An image of an excited grinning little girl with her hands to her face, and the caption, "You made me brave."
This was in the year end card from a student.
In the primary classroom most of the students are predisposed to love you.
My personal marker for success was not that they loved me, but that they felt safe to take a risk.

What does Your Classroom Management Look Like?

You have gifts and talents to share. And you want to set the stage for your students to:

  • Know their jobs and responsibilities
  • Do their jobs and responsibilities
  • Care for each other
  • Participate comfortably and with enthusiasm

And you deserve the tools and support that will make you the teacher that can facilitate all of that.

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Effective classroom management is not drudgery, it is the practice that makes you free to express your passions and abilities as a teacher.
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Why let Engaging Curiosity be a source for classroom management help?

Despite my own passion for teaching, I too needed to overcome my fears, insecurities and lack of understanding.

Time and opportunity provided me with exposure to many research-proven classroom management strategies. 

  • Decades in teaching and para-teaching roles including time homeschooling
  • Experience in multiple roles and contexts within the brick and mortar system
  • Post-baccalaureate training and diplomas
  • Waaaaay more professional development than is available to most classroom teachers
  • Experience as a Learning Support teacher in K-6
  • Classroom teacher in grades 1, 2, 5, 8 and 9 
  • Substitute teacher for K-6 & 10
  • Reading intervention from K-6
  • Math intervention K-6
  • Classroom assistant in K-6 classrooms
An image of a teacher's desk with books and pencils, and a blackboard in the background, text reads, 'Great activities and challenging topics for the age level.'. Reflects what effective classroom management trategies caan help teachers to accomplish in the classroom.
This written feedback from a colleague after I presented to staff reinforces that a teacher can do so much more with effective classroom management strategies.

By learning effective research based classroom management strategies those  feelings of being an imposter syndrome teacher were overcome.

The classroom can be a place where students are engaged and kind.  Where they always able do their best. A place where they are safe because they understand that “best” is different for everyone, and that is okay.

Group hugs become a favourite activity, and conflict resolution becomes a time of sharing lunch together and learning to know each other better.

And classroom management help will work for you. 

“Image of a teacher's desk with an apple on it, and writing on the blackboard behind the desk,'I'm not ready for him to move on from your class! I wish you could be his teacher forever! Not only was I able to watch him learn this year from you. I was also able to watch his character grow. I will be forever grateful to you for what you deposited into him this year!”
Effective classroom management supports positive relationship building with parents too.
This little one was a joy to have in my class, but without effective classroom management strategies that may have been very different.

Getting past teacher imposter syndrome

Join me now to learn about the 5 pillars of classroom management.  Learn to  implement strategies for:

Choose research-based classroom management strategies that have been effective in many, many classrooms.

Remove classroom chaos, renew student engagement, reclaim your free time.

Gain the respect of your colleagues and the love and trust of your students:

  • know that you are changing lives and that you are where you are meant to be.
  • leave school with time to invest in yourself,
Image of a teddy bear readig a book and text that reads, '“I really miss being in your class, and I just wanted to say hi.”' as a testament to the relationships that are built through effective classroom managemenet strategies'
Classroom management is too often considered the rules and consequences. that teachers implement.
Instead it is the foundation of the safe and loving community you create for your students.

As published in “One Classroom Over”.

Front cover of the July issue of the "One Classroom Over Magazine, and an image of an article on postive reinforcement written by Marian Busfield.
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Remove classroom chaos, renew student engagement, reclaim your free time.

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