THE KEY SKILLS FOR AN EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

     There are several significant key skills to define an effective classroom manager. To provide the effectiveness in classroom management,awareness,relationship with students,instruction and communication styles are the important skills.
     First things first,teachers need to have self-awareness to deal with classroom effectively. Effective classroom managers  always question themselves as  teachers. They have to be clear and determined while having the class and students should know what they are doing and what the next step is. In this way,students can have clear minds and have an idea about how to participate and how to perform in the class without confusion.To provide this clearness and to have the right responding style,teachers should first know what the need is and what their students want from the lesson. Informing the class about the syllabus,classroom rules and the desired behaviors can be good examples for effective classroom management in terms of awareness.                
     The second matter is the relationship between student and teacher.To provide an effective classroom management,teachers need to know how to balance the closeness with students. Some teachers are too friendly or some of them are so strict while managing. An ideal manager should know whether students will be fine when he/she does not consider personal space or makes jokes  to create a sincere environment. To have the right decision,the teacher should observe the personalities of his/her students well. Then,the teacher can decide that it is fine being friendly to have a healthy communication with the students or staying strict works well for the class to keep the management. As an example,if a class has lots of difficult students,making jokes,behaving as a friendly teacher all the time can trigger the students to misbehave more and make the management harder.  Otherwise,being strict and rule implementer can  increase the hesitation to participate the lesson and create a teacher-centered environment in a silent classroom full of tractable students.
     Thirdly,being aware about some important details while instructing such as movement in classroom while instructing,volume,nonverbal communication use is another  point. An effective classroom manager should know how to deal with the situations and how to create a student-centered environment to provide a more effective lesson. Having a back up plan can save the lesson as well.  The most effective teacher  is the one who can instruct the same topic in different styles and situations. To clarify the point,an effective teacher should know whether a group work is better or individual is more suitable to keep the attention,or whether he/she should raise or low his/her voice while lecturing. Sometimes,even a nonverbal communication signal such as arching the eyebrows can be efficient to stop an undesired behavior.
To sum up,classroom management is an important issue to create an environment in which students can have healthy relationship with their teacher and teacher can convey the knowledge effectively to keep students motivated and to catch their attention for the class. So,several key skills are required to provide such an environment and to be an effective classroom manager. The skills are awareness for both self and students,the relationship with students in term of understanding and responding their needs and wants,as last,instruction and communication styles  which include nonverbal communication use,working style for the activities (e.g. group work,individual etc.),volume,movements,backups to deal with the situations and to create an effective classroom environment.     First things first,teachers need to have self-awareness to deal with classroom effectively. Effective classroom managers  always question themselves as  teachers. They have to be clear and determined while having the class and students should know what they are doing and what the next step is. In this way,students can have clear minds and have an idea about how to participate and how to perform in the class without confusion.To provide this clearness and to have the right responding style,teachers should first know what the need is and what their students want from the lesson. Informing the class about the syllabus,classroom rules and the desired behaviors can be good examples for effective classroom management in terms of awareness.                       The second matter is the relationship between student and teacher.To provide an effective classroom management,teachers need to know how to balance the closeness with students. Some teachers are too friendly or some of them are so strict while managing. An ideal manager should know whether students will be fine when he/she does not consider personal space or makes jokes  to create a sincere environment. To have the right decision,the teacher should observe the personalities of his/her students well. Then,the teacher can decide that it is fine being friendly to have a healthy communication with the students or staying strict works well for the class to keep the management. As an example,if a class has lots of difficult students,making jokes,behaving as a friendly teacher all the time can trigger the students to misbehave more and make the management harder.  Otherwise,being strict and rule implementer can  increase the hesitation to participate the lesson and create a teacher-centered environment in a silent classroom full of tractable students.     Thirdly,being aware about some important details while instructing such as movement in classroom while instructing,volume,nonverbal communication use is another  point. An effective classroom manager should know how to deal with the situations and how to create a student-centered environment to provide a more effective lesson. Having a back up plan can save the lesson as well.  The most effective teacher  is the one who can instruct the same topic in different styles and situations. To clarify the point,an effective teacher should know whether a group work is better or individual is more suitable to keep the attention,or whether he/she should raise or low his/her voice while lecturing. Sometimes,even a nonverbal communication signal such as arching the eyebrows can be efficient to stop an undesired behavior.To sum up,classroom management is an important issue to create an environment in which students can have healthy relationship with their teacher and teacher can convey the knowledge effectively to keep students motivated and to catch their attention for the class. So,several key skills are required to provide such an environment and to be an effective classroom manager. The skills are awareness for both self and students,the relationship with students in term of understanding and responding their needs and wants,as last,instruction and communication styles  which include nonverbal communication use,working style for the activities (e.g. group work,individual etc.),volume,movements,backups to deal with the situations and to create an effective classroom environment.