Role Play for Classroom Management: Providing a Lodestar for Alternate-Route Teachers

Abstract

Classroom management is a crucial skill for any teacher. It is a skill that many new teachers struggle with, especially those who enter the profession through an alternate-route program. Alternate-route teachers often lack the training, support, and student teaching offered through traditional teaching programs. As such, this essay offers a guide for training alternate-route -teachers on effective classroom management strategies through the use of role-play simulation.

Key words:

• alternate certification
• classroom management
• role-play