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What about the funny policies by districts and admins of having
these in your classrooms? One minute, it's ok and the next it's
not ok? Then teachers are in trouble for violating confidentiality
and neighbors cannot assist??

n 8/06/14, PsyGuy wrote:
> I wouldnt call another teacher in, that sends the message that
youre
> not in charge, as both you and the other teacher are equals.
>
> You can send an entire class to the office. However it would be
> easier to have an admin come to your room.
>
> In the pass when whole classes would re unresponsive, I just
take
> out my iPhone and start video taping them. That way when
parents
> or admins bring up the issue you can just show them the video,
and
> say "could you teach in that environment, more importantly who
> would be learning?"
>
> On 8/06/14, 2nd chance wrote:
>> On 8/03/14, muinteoir wrote:
>>> Here is an excellent blog about classroom management. I
agree
>>> with almodt everything this guy says.
>>
>> Thanks guys for the suggestions and help! It seems from my
>> reading the main thing i need to nail down is to establish
>> consistent rules and procedures from the very beginning. I've
>> been trying to steal a little from here and there to create my
>> own classroom rules and procedures. My main fear is to lose
>> control and have the whole class ignoring me regardless of
what
>> I do. This happened to me a couple of times last year and I
had
>> no clue what to do. I could not send the whole class to the
>> office. The only thing I could do was get help from neighboring
>> teachers. The mere presence of the neighboring teacher got
the
>> students to be quiet. They clearly did not respect me.
Needless
>> to say, this was very embarrassing!

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