Classroom Management Strategies

When it comes to behavior management in schools today, many schools have experienced a higher amount of students’ problematic behaviors. Though research has shown that over the years discipline referrals have gone down and academic achievement has improved, teachers reveal that student discipline is the most complicated and challenging task for them. In this article, a cross-cultural study was performed to explore elementary teachers’ beliefs in classroom management strategies for students in public schools of the United States and Korea.
During this investigation, three research questions were studied to provide a better understanding of elementary teachers’ classroom management strategies through inner-cultural outlook of both countries. …show more content…
It is known that other countries seem to have a better behavior system when it comes to schools. Respect is a big deal in most countries, but it seems that this generation of children are not being taught that in the United States. I believe that countries, like Korea, have used the same behavior management strategies since the beginning and the United States seems to change their strategies all the time. I believe in in always finding the positive in a situation, but I think that schools are too easy on students these days.
When I was in school, it seemed like if you did something wrong, you were punished, just like Korea students are. These days, it seems that students are not being punished for the behaviors and being rewarded for every little positive thing. I am a supporter of the token economy, but I believe that some schools take it too far. I have noticed that students expect to a ticket/token for anything they do, which is not teaching them to behavior appropriately. I believe that if teachers had the same type of behavior strategies like Korea, we would have less behavior …show more content…
In the article in said that Korea used negative punishments when students behaved a certain way. Not sure what type of negative punishment, but as long as it is not physically harming the child, then why are we not using the same strategies? As of now I know what type of teacher I want to be when it comes to my behavior strategies, but that may change once I am actually in the classroom. I want to teach my students respect and that you should not always be rewarded for positive behavior. Respect is something children are losing with every generation, and it is just going to get worse unless we do something about