What does your high school classroom management look like?

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I work at a k-12 closed school system and our building has middle and high school students. I teach 5 8th grade classes and 2 9th grade classes. The most important thing in my experience is to build relationships with the students, especially the troubled ones. When they respect you a side eye will get the behaviors to stop

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I treat my students like “people” (I don’t know how else to put this into words- I don’t exactly treat them as equals, but make them believe that I do? Not sure if that’s the right way to phrase it either. I guess just treat them with respect!) I build relationships with them, I tell them about myself, and I stick to the boundaries I do set. I think it works for the most part. I have very few students who are problematic.

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The 🔑 to building relationships is to build one with ourselves first. Once we begin to understand our reactions, responses, and corresponding emotional programs, we can enrich our interactions. Start with 2 minutes of stillness. Watch what bubbles up! 🫧 We shift and the clarity helps us manage the challenges which (for sure) come up. We can be nice yet not a pushover. We can be fair and not vindictive. We can be kind yet firm. Stillness speaks a life changing language.

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Agreed. We neither talk down nor domineer.

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I collect phones and that helps.

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