Beginning Teachers and Classroom Management

I read this article on new teachers and how classroom management is often one of the biggest challenges because it is a skill that takes practice and this is what I found:

One of the biggest challenges for first-year teachers is managing a classroom. The difference between the first time teachers and those with more experience is that teachers with more experience have built up an arsenal of expertise over time, these management skills are invisible to observers. This gives the impression that managing a full class is effortless when rather it is highly demanding. Classroom management takes a lot of trial and error in order to figure out what works for you and different types of kids. A majority of new teachers are challenged with developing skills in all subject areas, lesson planning, creating activities, developing ways to present instructions, assessing and grading students accurately, and managing a classroom all at the same time. Because they are just starting they have fewer strategies to call on, and they have a far less sophisticated understanding of the general teaching process; thus translating to spending time disproportionately and focusing too much on problems that relate to management instead of students’ learning. 

Scarlett, W. (Ed.) (2014). Beginning Teachers and Classroom Management. In The sage encyclopedia of classroom management (pp.85-88). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781483346243