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As a teacher, I feel like my professional purpose is to teach the students what they need to know, but at the same time be there to support them through this time in their lives. I hope to accomplish educating every student, but at the same time making it fun. Classroom management plays a huge role in this and this article really helped give me some tips on controlling my students. I think the best tip was to point out the good. A lot of times I will focus on the bad and forget about the good.

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This has been one of our most popular articles since it first appeared nearly 10 years ago. Come for the clever title and leave with Jenn Gonzalez’s valuable insights shared by a talented writer who spent years in a middle school classroom perfecting her practice!

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