When I first started teaching, my behavior management was truly horrific. It actually physically pains me now to think about how chaotic and unproductive my classroom was. A quick disclaimer: I had 33 students in my first 4th grade class and they were “that group.” If you don’t know what I mean by “that group” then you must work in an idealized, Utopian school of some kind and you should consider yourself very lucky. “That group” is the group of students that comes along eve