When students understand how their classroom works they are less likely to be disruptive. They know what is expected of them and therefore, are less likely to digress. Thus, procedures and routines help prevent problems and are essential to classroom management. There are many important procedures to implement in a classroom. There are procedures to start and end a class, procedures to sharpen a pencil and pass in papers.
Every procedure strengthens the structure of a classroom.
The more procedures a classroom has effectively implemented the less confusion students experience and the less trouble they cause. Procedures need to be put in place in the beginning of the school year. A teacher should start only with those essential to the running of the class and slowly build, adding more as the previous ones have been firmly ingrained within the students. As the school year progresses these procedures become simple routines. Thus, a successful classroom management plan implements procedures at the beginning of the school year.