The purpose of classroom management is to make sure that the students do exactly what the teacher wants and expects them to do. The teacher should give students choices of classroom activities and negotiate what the students want to do and what the teacher has in mind them to do. The teacher should avoid providing answers to the students in order not to inhibit the students' thinking, learning, and creativity. The teacher should set classroom rules and expectations together as a way of sharing problem solving among all class participants. Teaching involves sharing interests between the teacher and students and among students with the teacher guiding this process of sharing.
Teaching is about transmitting knowledge and skills from the teacher to the students.
The students mainly learn by osmosis and by their discoveries in the classroom learning activities. Interesting learning activities in the classroom will take care of classroom management without much the teacher's interventions.