11. Goals and Most Important Principles of Classroom Management

Classroom management is one of the most challenging aspects of a teacher´s job. Effective teaching requires good classroom management. Teachers need to create the conditions that will help learning take place. For this reason, when building appropriate learning environments for our students, classroom management plays an essential role.

Classroom management includes many different areas such as arranging seating and space; setting up, timing, and monitoring activities; giving clear instructions; and dealing with unexpected problems. There are a variety of classroom management parameters which teachers have to take into account in order to deliver their lesson successfully. Among them, we have error correction, attention, momentum, time, space, routines, and discipline.

It does not matter the parameter or aspect of classroom management we are talking about. All of them require teachers to be aware of what is going with their students and what is going on inside the classroom so that they are able to develop the class effectively. For instance, take attention and momentum. Attention means that teachers need to keep students involved, and focused on learning activities, and Momentum refers to how teachers keep the ongoing flow of events in the classroom. As you can see, classroom management involves teachers´ ability to read classroom events, make decisions, and chose a course of action.