Classroom Discipline

Basically, the article “11 Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline" is based on different techniques which have to do with the discipline in the classrooms and how we as teachers can improve it; presenting us several tips related to this goal.

Criticising the first technique (Focusing); it is not helpful to pretend to have all the attention in the classroom before beginning the lesson and not to start until this occurs. But, how can we achieve this goal if our main object is taking advantage of the few time we have for doing a class. For instance, it is known that in our schools: teachers are always fighting against time and seldom have they had the appropriate timetable for meeting all their class goals. What is more, the technique's description also claims that: “A soft spoken teacher often has a calmer, quieter classroom than one with a stronger voice”. But, using a stronger voice in order to call their attention and activate the class is preferred. A stronger voice and a loud- voice are not the same, because we do not need to shout for having student’s attention. As a result, we can have a stronger voice instead of being loud voiced teachers and have a quiet classroom, as well.

On the other hand, the last technique “Positive Discipline” summarize the main idea of this article which presents this tips for making us reflect about how can teachers and students understand discipline as something beneficial and not as something that just works for restricting others. For example, changing the way we establish the rules in the classroom, using other words but meaning the same and acknowledging good behaviour.