what level of education do you teach?

Your soft-spoken characteristic implies a lack of confidence which is communicated to an age group that needs a strong presence in its teachers. You are clearly teaching the wrong age level, for your personality, and they will take horrible advantage of you, as a result. I suggest you consider a teaching position working with very young children. I’m amazed that your professors didn’t note this problem in any of your evaluations during your student teaching. You cannot come off as meek when teaching older age groups in this day and age. Your students won’t respect you. Your head master is right and is trying to tell you that the only person that can change is you. You will have to practice making your voice strong and you will need to be direct and decisive in your delivery. You cannot tolerate even one toe out of line by your students without immediate consequences. That is the only way you are going to regain control of your class. I’m not saying you should be physical or verbally abusive, but direct and more confident in your actions and authority. I think you should sit with your head master or a more experienced teacher who you respect and get some ideas for effective discipline techniques. Then begin, immediately, in laying down the law to that class. Good luck!

I am also soft spoken, and I have been teaching for ten years. You have to make the students want to hear what you are saying. Be funny. Be smart. Show your intelligence and creativity.

You also have to work on speaking loudly when needed. I try to speak to the person who is the farthest back–that way I project further and can be heard a little better.

Talk directly and individually with the girls who are causing you problems. Treat them with respect, let them know you care but you are serious about teaching, and hopefully they will return the favor.

Good Luck. The first two years were the hardest for me.

Establish the bottom line. These are the rules, and if you break the rules, this is what will happen. Don’t yell at the kids; speak in a normal voice. Do not argue with the kids about their punishment. They will try to bargain with you; don’t do this. Don’t back down on a decision that you make. The kids will think that they can talk you out of everything. If you can remember these things, you will be fine. Post these things on the board: Bottom line, tone,no bargains. This will help remind you of what to do.

Soft spoken or lacking authority? You can speak quietly but they need to know you are in charge, not angry, but in charge. Don’t let them get to you. Secondly you need to be very organized. Even if you’re spending a couple of hours for every lesson organizing ahead of time, it is time well spent, “idle hands do the devils work” If they are busy on tasks they are too busy to cause trouble.

Also you need to set up expectations, what are the rules. Also always follow them, good student or bad student, they all must follow the rules. Remember you are in charge of that classroom and they are just visiting, they need to know that. Always follow through, if you say you’re going to do something, do it. immediately, every time. Especially at the beginning.

First of all the headmaster should be supporting you not blaming you.

Youve got the right job but it sounds like its in the wrong place. Speak to the headmaster and explain to him/her that you need their support, if they still refuse to support you but you enjoy teaching then i would suggest looking for a new school to employ you, one that will actually support you in your new role.

I suggest you look for classes and/or books on classroom management. Managing classroom behavior is one of the hardest things to learn to do. Harry Wong’s book, “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher ” is a wonderful book you should read.

Good luck!

you have to be a lot more nicer and when you speak to them dont speak as if they did something wrong already. trust me theres a teacher at my school who always threatens things when we havent even done them. If your nice they’ll be nice back. ALso you CAN NOT be BORING. the teacher at my school always teaches her lessons in run on sentences and just uses the board and useless games. Doesnt help. If your a good teacher, your students will respect you.

Oh yeh, this is the first time here I read clearly words like those, I think given them Detantions will fix it, If it don’t u have to try again with the headmaster.

best wishes.

u have to earn their respect by proving that it’s valuable to U. Then everyone will try to gain more than u have, works best with kids