Carla Shalaby speaks with the "MindShift" podcast about offering teachers new ways to think about classroom management

Although teacher education programs might spend a lot of time getting teachers ready to teach content, they might not prepare future educators how to manage their classrooms, reports Nimah Gobir for KQED’s "MindShift" podcast. Gobir interviewed SOE's Coordinator of Social Justice Initiatives and Community Internships, Carla Shalaby, about teaching classroom management. 

“One of the things I’ve been working on recently is inviting teachers to understand that classroom management is itself a curriculum,” says Shalaby. 

The two go on to discuss classroom rules, question whether classroom management practices are grounded in creating safety or control, and whether asserting more control or offering students more freedom will yield the desired result.

“The fundamental shift that I’m trying to make is reminding teachers that our profession is one in which we literally get to try out and practice and prepare kids for a different and better and more free world than the one that we have now.”