Classroom Management Through Lesson Design: Considering Some Often

Classroom management skills and related issues are usually top concerns of preservice and new in-service music educators. This column, the first in a series about classroom management issues, is about designing lessons to avoid common behavior issues. There are many more variables to consider besides curriculum when designing a lesson, such as the students’ experiences directly prior to music class, the culture set by the classroom teacher, and dozens of others. This column contains a detailed examination with applicable strategies concerning two such variables: time of day of the lesson and students’ physiological needs