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Classroom management can be referred to as the wide variety of skills and techniques that teaches us to keep students organised, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically productive during a class. The strategies and the instructional technique used by the teacher to manage student behaviour and activities related to learning can also be termed as classroom management. To keep the students organised, orderly, focused and attentive, the teacher must create a set of expectations that will be used in the classroom environment. It includes routines rules and consequences. In managing the classroom,the teacher must develop some management techniques that will support the teachers expectations. This techniques includes: 1) Be prepared: The teacher must be prepared each time that he/she walks into the class. 2) Enabling and Attractive: The room must be enabling for the students to access some resources without teachers support. It should have a 'waoooh' factor. Something that will make the students to want to be part of the class. 3) Set classroom rules: Students must be aware of boundaries and expectation of the room by forming classroom rules. There must be constant reminder of this rules and enforcement of the consequences. 4) Be fair: The teacher must ensure fairness when dealing with issues. What applies to one most apply to all. The teacher must not be seen to be one sided when decisions are been made. 5) Record keeping: Teacher must find a way of keeping good student's record to motivate them to be better and to also encourage other student to emulate them. In managing the classroom, there could be some difficult students. What the teacher can do to deal with difficult students include: 1) Parent-Teacher partnership: Teacher must make sure that parents know what is going on; how often he is in trouble, and what trouble it was. Creating a bond with the parent makes them to have confidence in the teacher. 2) Use proximity to limit negative actions: When at all possible, place the student nearest to you, or stay within close proximity to him. 3) Choose the best time to discipline: You can't win when you try to call out a student in front of his/her friends. Private talk session will be more appropriate. 4) Try to find out what really happen (empathize with the student). Teacher should find out what is really going on. You can even get someone to talk to the student. 5) Build on common ground: Teacher can find a way to relate to the student on common ground, it could be in sport, band, or sibling. Teacher can build on it and check if the root of the issue can be located. 6) Never give up:No matter the behaviour, the teacher should never give up on trying to reach the student. In conclusion, in order to teach effectively, we need classroom management skills. it has been observed that teachers who applied strong, consistence management and utilize organizational skills have classrooms that experience fewer discipline problems. If continuous minor problems are not addressed properly they will eventually turn into bigger, harder to control issues.
