Chapter 3: Classroom Behavior

The piece that jumped out at me in this chapter was the students recognizing the lack of discipline by teachers so quickly. One student talks about how the teacher didn't address a problem until a few days after it began occurring. This acknowledgement reminded me that students alone know and remember how a classroom should be run, and compare each teacher to those expectations.
This idea of students judging the teacher for not setting rules really kind of caught me off guard. Previous to this chapter I knew that students would respond to different types of classrooms and different classroom rules, but I did not consider the idea that students would be uncomfortable in a classroom without rules. These students know how a classroom is run when it's run well, and they do not necessarily approve of a classroom without expectations and boundaries. It occurred to me that students can focus on learning when they are not trying to determine what they can and cannot do; so a teacher should establish the boundaries immediately and then begin the learning.