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Classroom Management Is Not Discipline

You can tell the neophyte teachers who have moved from the stage of fantasy to survival.  They are asking these questions:

What do I do if I still have students registering in my classroom?
What do I do if I have to move from room to room?
What do I do with all the misbehaving?
What do I do if I did not start the school with a classroom management plan?
What do I do if I do not even know what a procedure is?
What do I do if I go home exhausted each day?
What do I do if I don’t think I’ll make it to the end of the school year?

His Classroom Is a Real Life Office

Sitting at lunch in a charming Mexican restaurant in the Old Town of Albuquerque, New Mexico, we had the delightful opportunity to meet Ed Lucero and his wife Ruby.

Ruby is in the special education department of the Albuquerque Public Schools and Ed teaches business, marketing, and finances in a high school.

Ed shared a bit of his life with us and it was so powerful that we asked him to tell us more in writing so that we could share it with the thousands of teachers.net educators.  Because his story is best told in his own words, we’ve chosen to leave it as a first person narrative.

The Saints of Education

The demands on the teachers of special education students are enormous. The work is emotionally and physically draining.  The stress is considerable.  The magnitude of the workload is colossal with all of the mandated reporting and administrative tasks expected of them.  The cumulative effect of teaching the special education child causes many teachers to leave the profession after just a few years.

But those teachers who stay—those teachers with the patience to stay true to the task, those teachers with the skill to bring order to the confusion, those teachers with a kind and understanding heart to see all children as capable and worthy, those teachers who teach special education children—these are truly the “saints of education.”

Typical of these teachers is Robin Zarzour who works with children with a variety of disabilities—Autism, speech and language delays, ADHD, severe behavior, and with physical and developmental handicaps.  Robin teaches special education at First Step Preschool in Ohio’s Parma City Schools.

The First Step Preschool program is based on the following guidelines:

1. Learning is developmental. Children are provided the opportunity to learn at their own pace and with valuable hands-on experiences.
2. Children can learn through play. Ample play experiences are provided to develop decision-making abilities which integrate language, cognitive, social, adaptive, and motor skills.
3. Self-concept is critical. Parents and staff work together to encourage children’s efforts and accomplishments to motivate their love of learning.

Harry Wong Classroom Management