Chapter 20: A Well-Managed Classroom

The title of chapter 20 is a brief summary of what this chapter is about in its entirety, "How Procedures Improve the Opportunity to Learn". The key idea is that a well-managed classroom promotes and improves student learning. A well-managed classroom is not something that will stick out to an outsider, but can be observed by how smoothly a classroom runs. A well organized classroom comes down to a couple main things: the effectiveness of the first day and classroom procedures. Effective teachers manage their classroom, while ineffective teachers discipline their classroom. The key to classroom management lies in procedures which start on the very first day.
Why is the first day so vital to the success of the entire school year? Well, first