There are six main types of 'trouble' that may occur in the classroom: Epistemological trouble: when children do not know the answer or what an acceptable answer might be.
The one you know spat in your coffee when you weren't looking; the one who added the words "SUCKS BALLS" to your name on the whiteboard; the one who is always fighting, cursing and walking round the classroom looking for trouble, the one who heard you tell a colleague you were headed home and announced loudly: "well thank god for that".
Jennie Critzer had no trouble maintaining classroom discipline, and she skillfully used a variety of what teachers call "learning structures" — lecturing, problem-solving, coöperative learning, discussion.
But given that female students will find an excuse to fancy their teacher even if he looks a little bit like Winston Churchill, putting a toned, topless model at the front of the classroom is asking for trouble, or at the very least a "See me".
Most people were quite congratulatory about my public spiritedness, although a few warned that I might have trouble with classroom discipline.
The series spans Thomas Jefferson's passionate crusade for universal, tax-supported education to the recent crush of plans to overhaul troubled classrooms.
This series does a great job on standard issues like testing, classroom discipline and the way trouble at home affects work at school.
Besides having trouble following simple classroom instructions, she did not like to be touched, loud noises would throw her in a fit of screams, and she always needed to be placed where she was not confined and could escape.
In a study presented Wednesday to a meeting of education policy officials, researchers found that pre-K educators who were prompted to expect trouble in a classroom trained their gaze significantly longer on black students, especially boys, than they did on white students.
