Comments on: Those Who Can’t Do… Ask http://www.myclassroommanagement.com/those-who-cant-do-ask/ where you can bring all your student discipline issues and find peace for your classroom Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill Alexander http://www.myclassroommanagement.com/those-who-cant-do-ask/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Bill Alexander Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:19:21 +0000 http://www.myclassroommanagement.com/?p=833#comment-756 Hi Jennifer, A very useful post - you're absolutely right that in the end the only person we can really take responsibility for is ourselves, but we can learn from successful role models. The best classroom management role models I've worked with all have some characteristics in common: * they believe they can and will succeed; * they have a great classroom management plan; * they explain clearly and model consistently the behaviour they want students to demonstrate in class; * they mentally rehearse how they will react to incidents that might arise, so they are prepared to deal with them appropriately; I've also found that these teachers, when asked, are usually very generous with their time and advice and are happy to help others. Hi Jennifer,
A very useful post – you’re absolutely right that in the end the only person we can really take responsibility for is ourselves, but we can learn from successful role models. The best classroom management role models I’ve worked with all have some characteristics in common:
* they believe they can and will succeed;
* they have a great classroom management plan;
* they explain clearly and model consistently the behaviour they want students to demonstrate in class;
* they mentally rehearse how they will react to incidents that might arise, so they are prepared to deal with them appropriately;

I’ve also found that these teachers, when asked, are usually very generous with their time and advice and are happy to help others.

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