Chapter 3: Classroom Behavior

This chapter focused on classroom behavior and how the teacher in a classroom should look at classroom behavior in both teacher and student roles as a contract between the parties. Many of the students in the book offered really helpful advice that I plan on taking to my own classroom. I personally disagreed with a few of the strategies, particularly the ones that endorse even mild shaming. I think that making kids sit in the front of the class to “look stupid” probably wouldn’t do much to break the labeling that goes on in classrooms. The tables of effective consequences and indicators of possible sources of student misbehavior were really helpful for me. Strategies like calling parents should be used sparingly.