Tina and I have a system for classroom management. I hope I’m not being rude, but so many teachers try things that “might work” and they tinker and tinker and the years go by and they hate their jobs because they don’t have a dedicated and defined easy to implement and follow SYSTEM. They even try GAMES, which is about as effective in teaching a language as a screen door on a submarine. The system of classroom management that Tina and I talked about this summer has three levels and it works. The problem is that we only finalized it on the road a few months ago, so it is not written up yet. But, yes, I really like it. It is the product of four decades of intense soul-searching, of being woken up countless times at night trying to figure out how to deal with some sad, rude, obnoxious and self-centered kid. We all know that any success we have with CI in our classrooms is totally 100% dependent on the classroom management piece, and the system of taking complete charge of our classrooms that Tina and I put together this summer works for us in the first weeks of the school year, after which it is too late.
