Classroom discipline, management, behavior, and misbehavior are four terms that impact each other greatly. To describe each in a word picture is difficult, as they are all related. Imagine if you will a history classroom. Students know that they are to come into the classroom, sit down, and begin working on the review problem written on the board. This strategy for capturing student focus in classroom management. The students who immediately begin working on the problem are showing good behavior. The students who chat loudly or text on their cell phones instead of doing the work are misbehaving. These students should be disciplined based on the pre-established rules and procedures set by the teacher at the beginning of the year. These four ideas share similarities and differences, and connect with each other in extrinsic ways.
Classroom management and discipline are two different concepts. Classroom management relates to the way things are done in the classroom, while classroom discipline relates to how a teacher manages the way students behave in the classroom. Authors Harry Wong who wrote the book The First Days of School suggests that these two topics are clearly different: “Classroom management is not discipline. You manage a store. You don 't discipline a store. You manage a team. You don 't discipline a team. You manage a classroom. You don 't discipline a classroom” (2006). When put into such practical examples, Wong 's definition makes sense. Classroom management means that the teacher
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