As a teacher, what would be your attitude towards the students whom you find fighting with each other?

Classroom Management consists of the teacher’s thoughts, plans and actions that create an orderly environment and promote learning. Classroom management stands for the management of resources, pupils’ learning activities and behaviours in the classroom. It is essentially a human relations skill.

Key Points

Pupils’ disruptive behaviours in the classroom affect their learning adversely. Such behaviour needs to be eliminated or reduced to generate an environment conducive to learning in the classroom.

• Certain behaviours or strategies adopted by teachers are quite helpful in managing the classroom effectively. For example, if the students are fighting with each other, the teacher should try to know the reason behind the fight and will resolve or remove it as soon as possible by using counselling sessions with them.
• The strategies which were identified while observing teachers in the successfully managed classroom include: reinforcing desirable behaviours, keeping an eye on each pupil, giving clear directions, ensuring sufficient work for each pupil, securing and sustaining Pupils attention on the learning tasks, classroom setting, preparing lesson effectively and smooth transition from one activity to another.

Hence, we can conclude that the teacher should know the reason and will remove it while managing the disruptive behaviour of students.