Classroom Management

Replay of our latest Immediate Immersion LIVE! show where we talked about classroom jobs.

As a teacher, there's nothing more frustrating than students who hold side conversations during the lesson. And if we don't nip it in the bud, it will spread throughout our classroom and infest even the best of students.

Everyone wants to have a simple, full-proof plan that they can learn, adopt, and execute and have very obedient students that never act up, never are disrespectful, and are always happy, cooperative, and compliant.

In 2010, I finally learned what Susie Gross had been telling us all along. She had been saying to us that you need to love every child, even if you don't. I had heard the words for years, but it didn't really sink in until fall of 2010, but the story begins a year earlier.