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Classroom Management (3) Classroom Management is extremely important while teaching any subject in a school setting. If a teacher does not manage his / her classroom, effective learning cannot take place. The first thing any teacher must do to provide classroom management is to know your schools policies and procedures, so that you the teacher knows, what you can and cannot do in respect to how you deal with the students in general. The second thing that a teacher should do is dress and act in a professional manner at all times. Wearing professional business attire for a prescribed school uniform for teachers. If students or anyone in the public are to take the teacher as a professional, then the teacher must both look and act the part. 11.5 years in Law Enforcement taught me this, as I once had a Chief who came to work looking like he slept in his uniform, usually unshaven, and did not speak in a professional tone. As a result I saw time and time again, people going to officers that were of less rank asking for advice, or to tell their problem, believing that the Chief did not care about his job, until he was dismissed from service. I strongly believe from that experience applied to the schools if the teacher is to come into the school to teach, and is not looking and acting in a professional manner, and then the students and the students' parents will not take the teacher in a serious manner. The third thing a teacher should do is always be fair, be firm, and be consistent (FFC). I not only learned this years ago a cadet in the Academy, but I saw this again in researching this paper in an article entitled “The Five Golden Rules of Good Classroom Management,” by Shelly Vernon, we as teachers are there to me the child's mentor, not their friend.1 As in Law Enforcement and in the classroom, we are to always treat the students in a fair and respectful manner, we are to always be firm in our decisions (not to mention, our decisions are to always be in compliance with the policies and procedures of the school). We are to always be consistent in everything we do. If we are wishy-washy in everything we do, the students will see this and they will not only, not take us seriously, but we will have failed to earn their respect. The fourth thing a teacher should always do is praise and encourage your students. As I have witnessed during my teaching of Scouts and at the aftercare school program that I volunteer at, if you praise and encourage your students, it will motivate them to want to push themselves to go higher and further. As noted in the article by Shelly Vernon, if you criticize or put down a child, the child will shrivel up and feel worthless.2 I strongly feel if this happens the teacher has lost all effectiveness in trying to get that student back to a learning state of mind. As one of my college professors Dr. Don Brown once said at the University of Central Oklahoma, in a class entitled “Teaching in the Community College,” “Our jobs as teachers, is not to just stand there and run our heads to the students, our jobs as teachers is to take the student from the level they are at now, equip them, and them the tools they need to succeed, and take them to the level they need to be at to succeed.” By doing this not only have we succeeded in improving the student's ability to learn, but we have also effectively managed the classroom in a manner that will cause the students to want to come to the class to learn and not want to do other things.