Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: The Bad Class You have one class on the team that all teachers struggle to manage the behavior of. The principal visited your classroom and sympathized with you. The class is talkative and spends a lot of time bickering back and forth. The majority of class time is spent diffusing behavior problems. Twenty to thirty minutes into class, you can finally start teaching. What do you do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Like many of the posts that are here, it all goes back to the basics and implementing classroom management and consequences. The rule of thumb is not to smile until after December, and as harsh or cliché that may seem I think that It holds a lot of weight. The students needs to taught right away that this kind of behavior just is not going to happen. Now, in this situation I would literally go back to the basics of kindergarten, a note home, have them move a card give them real consequences throughout the day without letting anything get by.