Harry and Rosemary Wong

Harry and Rosemary Wong:

Harry and Rosemary Wong's methods teach teachers to avoid situations like these:

What is most important?

Why have clear rules and

procedures, anyways?

What are they known for?

In the first days and weeks of the school year, the three most important things that a teacher must teach their students are discipline, procedures, and routines. Only after these expectations have been taught can meaningful learning take place.

Harry and Rosemary Wong are known for their total classroom management plan, which includes having positive expectations, assigned seating, effectively starting the day and the class with a friendly interaction, effective discipline plans, clear expectations (rules and procedures), and preparation, preparation, PREPARATION! They are also known for expecting teachers to have all this scripted and implemented in the first days and weeks of school.

"Education should be challenging, exciting, engrossing, and thought-provoking, but not fun. If you believe that learning should be fun, you are doing the students a disservice. School is where you go to learn skills that help make you a productive citizen and grow to your fullest potential as a human being."

- Harry and Rosemary Wong

...not the classroom's best buddy!

What should students know?

What should students do?

In order to have an effective classroom management strategy, discipline plans should be written out, posted somewhere visible in the classroom, and reviewed and practiced regularly with students. This way students always know what is expected of them when.

Conclusion

The job of a student is to learn, and to learn effectively. The teachers job is to be well-prepared in order to be effective. An effective teacher eliminates confusion with clear instructions, seating arrangements, procedures, rules, and consequences. This readiness from the teacher helps the students to do their job.

Harry and Rosemary Wong

"A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented

and predictable environment."

- Harry and Rosemary Wong

Ask Harry and Rosemary Wong who they are, and they will simply say, "teachers." With over 30 publications, a myriad of teaching and achievement awards, a former science teacher with no discipline problems, and the most sought after speaker in education, Harry Wong is certainly an authority in contemporary educational classroom management practices. The Wongs are advocates for new teachers, and teach teachers to be prepared for everything. "Preparation, preparation, preparation!" is a frequently quoted line of theirs.

Students cannot be expected to know how to meet a teacher's expectations if those expectations are never made clear. Often times teachers get frustrated with the chaos of their classrooms, simply because they have not taken the time to teach what behavior they expect. Students want to have boundaries and clear, easy to remember rules and procedures to follow. If the teacher takes the first few weeks of school to teach these items, then the students will all feel safer and more prepared to learn. Harry and Rosemary Wong have helped millions of teachers to achieve this goal through their writings, videos, and other resources. Their logical and practical approach to teaching has inspired many seasoned and newbie teachers alike to be more effective in their teaching and in their management skills. This, and the work of other teachers like them, will help to shape my classroom management plan.

Harry and Rosemary wong

Over 3.6 million copies have sold of the book "The First Days of School" by Harry and Rosemary Wong, making it the best-selling education book of all time.

Contemporary Authorities on Classroom Management