Everything published here scrolls out and eventually gets lost in the past, unless we are good with the search bar. In order to prevent the loss of these upcoming articles on classroom management, I’m going to write them up in the form of a book.
We’ll build the book post by post – each new post will be a new addition to the book. In that way we won’t lose all the information to the past bc of the scrolling action here on the PLC.
First, as I indicated in the last article, we’ll review what we already know – the management strategies and techniques that go back all the way to PQA in a Wink! (2009). We’ll describe the state of the art of classroom management that we have arrived at over the past decade or so. Some of the posts might be long but so be it.
That will require a long time – lots of posts – because of the decades of posts generated here and in various books on the topic of classroom management – but it will be good to have everything we have gathered about CM (might as well give it an acronym right now) in one place for ease of reference.
Then eventually we can get to the new CM internal awareness stuff that I’ve been waiting (rather impatiently, I must admit) to write about, and finally can – now that the four books on NTCI and the Invisibles are complete and that hellish four year long chapter of my professional life is done, praise the Lord.
I’m really excited about the potential we now have to take an honest and overdue in-depth look at this crazy work of trying to get kids to learn a language, to take a fresh look at how the two most important things of all – classroom management and our mental health – interface.
Perhaps in the next months we can – together in these pages – finally come to a much fuller understanding and realization that there is nothing wrong with us as classroom managers/teachers and that most of the time it’s not even us who has a problem, but that most of us are working in a very very sick professional environment that would and routinely does take down well-meaning WL teachers because of how sick it is.
No blame. It’s just the way it is. It’s a paradigm shift and make no mistake about that. We are here to fight. We are part of an army that I would think might could be said to be under the command of Mr. Rogers. God bless us and protect us on our journey.