Discipline and Classroom management

After reading some of the units in Harry Wong's book: How To Be An Effective Teacher The First Days of School, I will be soon introduced to discipline and management in a classroom. But before I read this unit, I have my own thoughts over the topic. Classroom management and discipline should be present at all time in a classroom. When I think of classroom management I visualize a setting where a teacher has already established rules and students continue to obey them all throughout the school year. For a classroom to be effectively classified as managed, the students must meet the teachers standards even when the teacher is not present, that is to say that students can behave well when a substitute is in charge. As for discipline, it should be established beginning on the first day of school. Discipline should be nothing more than words, no corporal punishment; students are just children that want to learn and have fun at the same time. Discipline should be seen in a classroom as respect towards the teachers and the rest of the students. In the past teachers have approached discipline very harshly. When I was in Elementary the first "warning" was already a phone call to our parents. Now I see that teachers are becoming more lenient, it takes up to three warnings for teachers to call a parent regarding their child's behavior in class. Being too lenient does not seem to work, I definitely understand we are dealing with young children sometimes, but not being consistent with discipline will harm the control over the class. As a future educator I will make sure to establish both management and discipline in my class to ensure effectiveness in my teaching. I do not plan to scare my students with discipline I only want my class to flow smoothly and my teaching to be effective. 

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