The origin story of the Happy Music Teacher!

In this episode I share what my classroom was like during my first few weeks of teaching and believe me, it wasn’t pretty. But I figured it out, and I want to help you figure it out too!

My three secrets to figuring out how I wanted to manage behavior in my classroom:

1. Read Harry Wong’s “The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher”
2. Watch other teachers. 
3. Trial and error

Episode quotes:

[4:10] I knew things needed to change and I knew they needed to change right away. And I am not a person who is going to allow myself to be frazzled or overwhelmed or upset for very long before I do something about it. That's just my personality. I am all about being happy. So above all things, I am going to make myself happy in any way that I can, of course, without damaging anyone else because that would make me very unhappy.

[10:27] What happened next is I continued through trial and error and I developed as a teacher, I developed my behavior management, I developed my systems, I developed my structure, and I began to realize that having a structure in my classroom was a really big deal and having a step-by-step process that I could follow was a really big deal.

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