Classroom Management
Over the 25 year period of my teaching experience, I have practiced many of the strategies mentioned here. One that will work every time is classroom seating arrangements during testing. Recently I was assigned a class of 16 students in a small room designed for 17 students and a teacher desk, file cabinet and bookshelf. There is little room to maneuver; however, I discovered that our double room, capable of holding 40+ students, was available during my Business Communications class period. Therefore, I designed that on test days we would move to the larger room for testing. Students are allowed to bring with them a pencil/pen and one clean sheet of notebook paper. Each student is assigned a seat with seats empty to the left, right, and in front of and behind them. This placement discourages cheating of any kind and the students appreciated the fact that suspected cheaters were "isolated" during a test.
I like that idea, I too if possible spread students out in the classroom during test time. I also like the idea of standing in the back of the classroom while they are testing, I am going to use that this next quarter.
Class room managemet set up the class for a better attendance
