I went into teaching right after getting out of the military. People thought I was too "strict" with my students. After the first year, those same people were asking me for class management advice. Being strict doesn't mean you don't care for your students.
Raul, I am prior military as well and am a teacher now. Thank you for your service. My co-workers said the same thing but classroom management is essential for students to learn. :)
He's young...that helps...high expectations...yes...but very, very rarely do they have much of a life outside of school...this coming from a 20 year veteran...notice his apartment...piles of papers everywhere...little furniture....his whole life revolves around his job...it's great, he's wonderful, but we as teachers deserve to have a fulfilling life outside of school as well. If he continues to make teaching his only goal in life he'll eventually burn out...I know this isn't a positive comment but I've seen too many of these videos of teachers who are wonderful like him but don't have the time nor energy nor get paid enough to do much more in life but teach, grade papers and spend their weekends preparing for the next school week.
I was thinking this, ‘I’m a great teacher... how? I spend lunches and after school following up with consequences’ ... I think I’ll continue being an average teacher thanks.
I’m almost 40 and I have the same passion and expectations as this young teacher. I also have lots of children and a husband. In addition I run a farm. But my passion is no less than what this teacher has.
I wanted to be at work I would leave at 11am and often didn't come home until 10pm. At&t was pretty much my whole life. I suspect he has no family like me. I did have hobbies that I enjoyed doing.
He might just have good time management skills. My husband is a great teacher like this and rarely does work outside school hours. I'd attribute the look of his home to being a young, single guy.
True he has probably learned, for him and his STYLE of teaching, what managing a class is and how to time manage everything he does in that classroom..yes, his life may evolve around his professional career..it's the level of devotion and commitment he has to his craft, perhaps realistically knowing the demands and rigor he's dealing with..but yes, teachers should also have a life outside of being a teacher. The passion "should" be there, I get it. But so should the life you live while teaching
You can be the best teacher in classroom management and taught for 30 years and there will be some classes that will make you feel like it’s your first year teaching. No, I’m not being pessimistic and negative. I’m just being realistic.
Incredibly true statement. A friend of mine who is on her 13th year, broke down in tears a few days ago. For whatever reason, this class is driving her to a breaking point. She is questioning whether she should even be a teacher. She is an excellent teacher; I really admire her style. It pains me to see her struggling with this particular group of kids, but, on the other hand, it also helps remind me on days that I am struggling that even some of the best teachers can have bad days or even bad years.
Yea. I have some really challenging kids this year. Its worst than my first year and I was getting my credential at the same time. But true, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be leaving teaching after this year. Dont know what else lll do, but at least I won't be getting cussed out daily by middle schoolers with little to no consequences because admin nor parents of those kids care.
His comment about some students being 2-4 years behind is very optimistic in my experience. I had a 9th grade student just this year who tested below 1st grade. This is an extreme case, so I didn't quite believe it. I asked him if he tried on the test or just blew it off. He said he tried. I told him I would check his middle school scores before seeking further input on what class he should be placed in (I fully intended him to say he just randomly answered questions because he didn't care about the test, as kids sometimes do). All his reading scores for three previous years were below first grade, with one that was first grade. Generally, I have many students who are many years behind. Once a few years ago I had two students in 12th grade English who were not fluent in English. The boy could get by speaking English, but simply would not talk in English class (he had a second language class also, and apparently talked in there). The only two words in English I ever heard him say were "bathroom" and "picture" (on picture day, he was asking to go get his picture taken). So I talked to his second language teacher to see what I could do, how I could help him, etc. He told me to have him practice speaking English with his partner, who was only talking to him in Spanish (kids often talk in Spanish now and then--not a problem at all--but mostly they speak to each other in English). So I told them to save Spanish for any other time of the day and practice English with each other during 12th grade English class. Turned out the partner's parents were lawyers, called the principal, and said I was telling kids they couldn't speak Spanish! I'm as liberal as they come, and I was being labeled as some kind of intolerant doofus simply because I had never heard the kid say more than two words in English in English class. I had no idea what I was expected to do to teach this kid 12 grade high school English. And the girl was only briefly in my class, scored below first grade on her initial reading test, didn't understand the word "number" when I told her to put her student number in the computer to take the test...and so they transferred her to 11th grade English. ????? These are the most extreme cases I've had, but there are hundreds that are only slightly better.
When I was a newer teacher, I thought any management struggles were my fault. And some were, but many were not. It was sometimes difficult to tell the difference between the two when administrators were all too eager to blame everything on you. Thirteen or fourteen years ago in my old district I had a class from hell, in a tiny room (I was only in there one period), with one partition (fake) wall, and half-moon tables pushed into circle tables that were set up for honors classes (my period was NOT honors). My class simply could not function at group tables. It took me 6 weeks to train them to smoothly move the tables so they were all facing forward, and then smoothly move them back at the end of class. In the middle of the semester, a girl was transferred into my class. She had moved from the other side of the state, and was now living with her grandmother. I came to find out she had been kicked out of her other school for fighting, and her mother sent her to live with grandma for a while. So after a couple of weeks in my class, she gets in a fight at lunch and was suspended. At my evaluation, my administrator said that she "wasn't sure" if the girl got in a fight because she was in my class! ...as if I had been some kind of negative effect on her. A) The girl got kicked out of her last school for fighting. B) She never got in a fight in my class. C) She didn't get in a fight with anyone IN my class. D) Her lunch was *before* my class in the daily schedule, so it wasn't as if she was angry about something that happened in my class and then got in a fight right after at lunch. And E) she'd only been in my class a couple of weeks. I just stared, incredulous. Even as green as I was back then, I knew the suggestion that her fighting was my fault was insane.
He said the "C" word. CONSEQUENCES. Too many educators want to be buddies with the kids. These kids need boundaries....they thrive if they are managed well.
@@hq880 New way of teaching isn't as effective... I've seen teachers try to implement what you preach and it all demolishes to a lousy classroom that can't be quiet or respectful.
I am just starting my second year of teaching. A couple of years ago I saw your videos and thought you were too strict, too cold, your expectations were too high for middle schoolers. Now I'm teaching in a challenging school and my classroom management is awful, my kids don't respect me, and behaviour problems in my classes are draining me. You were right all along - by letting my kids get away with so much, I'm telling them that I don't expect much of them. Semester 2 starts next week and I'm ready to start fresh with high expectations, clear and consistent consequences, and a belief that I can get more or of my students than they could ever imagine. Thank you for these videos!
I knew someone would have a negative comment. This TEACHER teaches the way I did and I had positive outcomes. I bet the last day of school they have tears and so does Mr.Hester. he loves them!!!!
He has such a handsome, warm, kind face think truly his great soul shines through too...which makes a massive difference I salute you ⭐ Mr Hester they respect you because you respect them
Those words from the student "I do care...I want to go to college and do something in life" ...Mr.Hester proved it, made it, seeded it. Much respect for Mr.Hester for bringing up light to those bright lives🖤
Mr. Hester seems like an excellent teacher with excellent classroom management skills. Classroom management is easy sometimes, and sometimes classroom management is hard. Classroom management is more a learned skill than an innate skill. It takes practice, experience, trial and error, learning from experience, experiencing and teaching a variety of different kinds of classes, attending seminars on classroom management, reading books on classroom management, etc to get good at classroom management. People can definitely improve when it comes to classroom management. A lot of experienced teachers with excellent classroom management skills struggled with classroom management during their beginning years as a teacher. There are some people who have good classroom management skills, and there are some people with bad classroom management skills, but no one is perfect in regards to classroom management. When a teacher has a challenging class, it's not always the teacher's fault. Just because a teacher has a challenging class doesn't mean he or she has poor classroom management skills. A lot of teachers with great classroom management skills have challenging classes. When a teacher calls the office to request someone to come to the classroom to remove a student from the classroom due to him or her continuing to be disruptive, it doesn't always mean the teacher has poor classroom management skills. When a student is continuing to be disruptive, threatening the safety of the students in the classroom, etc, them being removed from the classroom is an appropriate consequence, and those situations are not a sign that the teacher has poor classroom management skills. There are times where it's appropriate to call the office to request someone to come to the classroom for a discipline issue, and there are times where it's best for a teacher to handle the issue in the classroom without calling the office to request someone to come to the classroom for a discipline issue. I believe in calling the office in last resort situations, severe behavior situations, and any behavior situation where the safety of students is in jeopardy. Fighting, being cussed out by a student, being threatened by a student, throwing books, staplers, chairs, etc across the room, students leaving the classroom without permission, etc are definitely the kinds of issues that warrant a teacher calling the office. When a student is being disruptive in class, a teacher should try to do whatever they can control the disruptive behavior in the classroom, but when a teacher has tried everything they can in the classroom to control the disruptive behavior, and the student is still continuing to disruptive to the learning environment, it's in the best interest of the class that the student be removed from the classroom. Good classroom management skills in my opinion means knowing what behavior issues to address, knowing what not to address, how you handle behavior issues in the classroom, having engaging lessons to keep students interested and engaged in the material, using prevention methods in the classroom to help prevent disruptive behavior from happening, using positive reinforcement to motivate students to behave, calling the office in last resort situations, severe behavior situations, or any behavior situation where the safety of students is in jeopardy, being consistent in discipline and how you handle consequences for poor behavior in the classroom, making the classroom an environment where students feel safe and are able to concentrate on their work, etc. I wish Mr. Hester the best in life. Mr. Hester's teaching videos are excellent. Keep up the great work with the teaching videos.
I never once encountered a teacher like this. Wish I could have. He is absolutely AMAZING! He really cares and it shows. You can feel it. WOW! I love this teacher. ❤👍❤
This is what educating is all about. A teacher that cares about their students in both their learning and well being. A teacher that is prepared to go above and beyond is what the education system needs. Tyler Hester is clear evidence of the value of caring for the future of your students. @Neng Mau the main point is yes you will have days like that and days where you can feel like chucking it all in. BUT when you believe in the students and you don't give up on the students and you show you will keep helping and being there for them then slowly but surely they will come around to a working relationship and will be glad to be part of the class and work to the best of their ability.
Congratulations to this young teacher. That said, calls home and visits to the office don't mean a thing without support. Earning respect is a wonderful goal but difficult to attain when not supported. That, unfortunately, is a reality in many areas.
Tyler, I am about to start teaching. I have been an environmental scientist for three years since I graduated. However, there was a teaching crisis and that was a need that needed to be met first. So I will stepping into a T1 school this fall as a bio teacher. I have so many questions, a problem with emergency certification, but stumbling upon your videos, book, and ministry has been a Godsend. I want to teach like you do. I have watched all of your videos and am going through the 7 steps you suggest. Thank you for finding a way to provide structure and love for students, as well as providing for us. The teachers who never thought they would teach but have no shortage of love for these kids. Praying for your continued contribution to education in our country. Casey
Wish I was in his class! he's an impressive teacher. Please upload more videos, I've watched all of them and it would have been nice if there were more of them.
I have been teaching for 29 years. After viewing this video, that I so appreciate, I am just in tears! Thank you for the action that follows your heart. Tell your mom for me, that she is to be commended for raising a righteous man. I really loved your honesty about your first year of teaching. I respect how you decided not to continue to struggle but to change, to learn to manage our students. I am doing the same and in my quest I am coming across some great resources, like you. Thank you very much.
I'm really glad I came across this channel. I'm looking into being a teacher. you're a great teacher. My highschool teacher is waiting for me to get out of college so I can help her. Doing something for the first time isn't that easy at the beginning, but once you get the hang of it, you make plans on how you want to handle a class, how you're going to handle a class, everything will be alright. When my teacher told me to handle a class of seniors, I lost control as well. They won't listen, until I yelled and the room was filled with silenced. You're teaching skills inspired me to do my best. Keep inspiring these students. I believe they will be successful.
I am going to start teaching full time next month and I had the easiest time during my training the last two years in a lovely quiet countryside school, but I was worried about controlling rowdier classes the coming year. Thank you for the inspirational videos that gave lots of great ideas that I will try to use next year!
WOW! Mr. Hester, you are an inspiration. My name is Darlene and graduated from Salem State University( before it was a university) in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. I never became a classroom teacher. Here is the reason why. On the final teacher practicum, in a first-grade classroom, my college supervisor came observation my first two lesson plans and graded me with outstanding markers. Nice right? however, the classroom teacher did not believe I desired such high marks her exact words were " No one ever gets outstanding grades on their first observations!" I could not believe this. There was a meeting which may have attended for part of. From there on, my college supervisor lowered my grades. Well, come to find out I believe the teacher was holding a grudge. My aunt lived up the street which I happened to mention. I would go and visit her and my cousins sometimes after student teaching. The teacher had my younger cousin in her class the year before and she did not get along with my aunt because they made educational recommendations that my cousin required special education( and she probably did). My aunt may have had the attitude "not my daughter". The classroom teacher refused to sign my document for licensure. This is a teaching practicum gone wrong. I blame the college for not placing me in another school. I am now 58 years old and still, it hurts. I did go back in 1994 to a different school and did an 8-week practicum that had the best teacher and students. Though because my self-confidence was crushed I never taught. I changed careers in 1998 with an associate degree in Occupational Therapy. Worked in school placement OT for two and a half years. the in Geriatrics for 15 years. Now I'm looking for work again hopefully with a school system. I share this with you because teachers need to be aware of keeping personal issues out of the student teachers' academic learning. I enjoy your videos. I watched it for a class I am currently taking on behavior management. I continue to keep up my teachers license because I own it!
This is exactly what I have been looking for! I am starting student teaching this Spring and I am researching how to effectively manage my classroom in the Urban setting. Your video on the first day of school is the most enlightening resource tool I have found. I only encounter proverbs and words of advise; I needed a real example of what that first day looked like. Thank you!
I love your videos. I learned more observing you in four RUclips videos than I have in six years as a substitute and observing others. I'm now a Spanish teacher at a high school and I feel like it's my first *real* year, taking only cues from your classes. I've never had the control like I do now, and we cover more material, more in depth, in a shorter amount of time. The kids are loving my class, I've never gotten compliments from students before. Honestly, even the way you prep your board helped me!! Please, please post more videos!
He is such an amazing teacher. I am truly glad I found these videos. Going in to education I think that I've learned something from Him. And he's very good looking but that's Another story
Please know that your videos have totally refreshed and inspired me. I am a new teacher about to delve into teaching 6th grade Writing to the same students I had such a bad experience with as a permanent substitute last semester. Not one day did I have control of my classroom, and there were many days that I (and the teachers on my team) complained of not being able to teach because of constant behavior issues. I am looking to start anew being my best self (not the green-eyed monster I felt I was everyday of this past semester) and to with genuine love help my students realize their goals of going to college and being successful.
Teachers ought to have to serve as 'apprentice teachers' alongside 'master educators' in the masters' classrooms for several years in the same type of situation that gives us master electricians, master carpenters, master plumbers and the rest of the 'trades'. Start as an apprentice, move up to journeyman, then finally achieve master status. Education is so important, kids deserve the best of the best in every class, in every grade.
Lark Bird I agree 100 % doing my first semester as a teacher. I have implemented some of his ideas. Classroom seating, greeting by the door, strict rules, high expectations, honesty and care
You're so right! In my own experience (teaching adult immigrants in Norway), I got about two opportunities to sit in in experienced teachers' classes, and then I was thrown out there. For me it's all worked out well, as far as I can tell, but at the time I did really wish I could get more opportunities to see how others do it.
I agree. That's what I did for a year. First half was junior teaching, second half senior teaching with the lead teacher as a mentor and guide. Best experience of my life. And the proof? This is my 30th year of teaching and I'm still going strong. 🥰
I said the same thing at my school district. They called me crazy. Plus I believe we should teach for 90% mastery with a Montessori approach. Also utilize technology to enhance one on one approaches and remove elements of classroom management. Another words what you put into it is what you get out of it. Reap what you sow.
Thank you so much for the insightful video on classroom management. I have been teaching English for three decades, but still, you inspired me a lot. I continue to learn about how to care for students so their expectations could be higher for their success. You are a great teacher indeed.
I am in my second year teaching, first year in a public school, teaching 6th grade science. I knew going into this year that I was going to have to do things drastically different going from a single class of eight students to six classes of 30-35 kids each. I've just ended my first week and taken a ton of cues from you. I am amazed how much I have been able to communicate and project my expectations, and see kids stay on task, even in these first few days. Thanks for these videos, I plan on watching and re-watching daily.
I was actually looking up videos for my classroom management class when I found your videos, and I'm glad I stumbled upon them. I will be student teaching this coming fall, although I'll be at the elementary school your videos really set the example for me in a current classroom on how to set those expectations. Thank you!
This made me cry. Thank you for sharing videos like this. I also became obsessed with class management when I became a 2nd grade teacher. This brought me back great memories.
Dear Mr. Hester, As an educator who taught in DC and now in China, this video resonated with me so much. Education is a civil rights' issue. Discipline is love. And, all people, children and adults, want to be valued, acknowledged, loved, and heard. Keep doing what you're doing to ensure that your students know that they matter. We all grapple with how to make impact when we realize the injustices of education. I am so happy that you found your space. I, too, am abroad currently, but always keeping the mission of ensuring quality education for disadvantaged people, particularly Black students for me, near to my heart. I literally came across this video looking for content to help my friend who has taught before in China at a training center but is now teaching full time in the classroom at a school in Sudan. He is having a hard-time in the classroom, and I plan to show him this video. I think teacher mentorship is so important. If he could see what investment, relationship building, effective and engaging instruction, and no-nonsense, nurturing, discipline looks like, it would benefit him greatly! Keep up the good work. Continue to inspire others. And, may God bless you tremendously for all of your efforts in this life! All the best, Gabrielle Westbrook
I agree with most of what he says. Setting standards on day one, being consistent, etc. All very important. I began teaching in 1977 and am still teaching. Uggh. But I'm at school at 7:15 in the morning, have lunch duty, after-school care, and leave most days at 5:45 p.m. I also have five different preps and teach 6 periods out of 7. I believe what he has said, but I honestly do not have the energy at the end of the day to make lots of parent phone calls, etc. by the time I finish grading everything. Teachers often have very little life outside of the classroom. It's sad that as a teacher, I rarely read anything for pleasure because between classes and professional development requirements, there is no time. And I bring home less than $2000 a month.
Great video. I teach nursing and am known for being demanding, but my post-course evaluations often say that they learned more in my class than they had the entire program. Some who have had an attitude later tell me that they were never held accountable or to the high level I expect. They thank me for raising the bar and tell me how they got more out of the rotation. Plus, many former students stay in touch, text me the minute they pass their nursing state exam, and some even text me for moral support their very first day alone on the job (once they're off orientation) as "real" nurses. Students need structure, accountability, love, and support.
Imagine that...discipline works. As a veteran teacher I've watch education fall apart with parents and teachers trying to be "friends" with the kids. They are not your friend. They are not your peer or equal. You are the adult. Be the leader kids need so they can become responsible, respectful citizens who can live fulfilling and successful lives. Bravo for stepping up and doing what our students need, not what they want.
If I had such strict and sterile teachers growing up, I don't think I would be going to college today to be a teacher. I'm incredibly thankful for the teachers that I had growing up, who didn't depend on pedant and decorum: but who literally breathed inspiration into the classroom and connected with us students individually at a personal level.
Mr. Hester you have a good way of teaching. Before seeing your videos I believed I am the only one who is teaching in a fantastic way. But you are also have a collaborative way teaching. I personally believes teaching students resilience is one of the great way to take students out of failure frustration. I hope I will broadcast my videos someday and you will watch those videos.
This coming school year will be my first year as a teacher and I was so worried about setting expectations in the first meetings. I'll definitely be using your timeline of meeting students at the door and making sure all of their time is being used effectively. Thank you!
i didn't have such an opportunity in my whole life .... i'm English teacher her in Egypt and just saw u teaching made me cry .. thanks for this feeling u gave me .. now i know how to be a good teacher
I love your approach! My first year was my easy year. This year is my second and it is very challenging due to the maturity level of the students. Last year I used the same techniques as I am using this year and it is just not working as well. Your approach is what I needed in the very beginning. It is getting better!
Love it!! Although I have a different classroom management style, those basic principles apply--especially now. Because I love you, I will treat you like I love you--the agape love. The love that says, when you mess up, I am here and we will try it again. The love that gets you up in the morning and stirs your dreams to get them going. Yeah. I got you Mr. Hester. Bravo.
This stuff only works with kids who ain’t violent though. Because certain individuals will chuckle at the notion of a teacher “enforcing” his expectation
@@marysutton434 ^_^ glad you found it amusing, im a teacher btw and i think most teachers know that too many rules can suffocate students and restrict their freedom, which make them hate the class after a while, you have to give them their space and make them relaxed and teach them responsibility so they can respect the class and respect you, thats how you manage them specially if they are teenagers or younger, they have a lot of energy and its so wrong and so hard to inhibit or contain that energy, its better to exploit that energy in learning
Mr. Hester, Thank you thank you thank you. I watched all 4 videos and I now feel like I have a better grasp on what to do next year in teaching. I'm a 3rd year teacher coming from an alternative certification program and NO ONE was able to help me or show me how to get a class started on the first few days of school. This really helped! I appreciate everything you are doing and please keep posting. I'll be watching.
I would have never seen a 'first day' in action without this video! Thank you so much. From the moment your students arrived you guided and modeled to them your expectations. I am a new teacher and this information will change my first day (week) forever.
I took over an 8th grade class in Dec last year and had the year of ***. I watched your video over the summer, integrated many of your concepts, and my 6th grade seems to be running very smoothly. You Rock, man! You are a true DWEEB! (that's the highest complement from me, btw...)
I need to know more about managment.I have to do it later on in one of my class.you really inspire me, as I am listening to you attentively.your advice you are given to the class has given me confidence to go for it when I am ready. Thanks a lot
Getting ready to start my 2nd year teaching in the D.R. I taught for 11 years in the states before moving here. These videos have been motivating me to strive to be better and more consistent in the classroom. Thanks for doing what you do!
Awesome video, love love love your techniques! I'm truly inspired. I wish someone as good as you would do something similar for Elementary/Sped classroom. By the way, I love the "I Am From" poem....I did it in grad school, it helps you reflect on who you are in a cool way. Keep doing what you do, God bless!
Hello Mr Hester, I have just discovered your videos. Thank you so much for sharing them with us, they are brilliant. My name is Seda and I am an English teacher at a school in the Egian coast of Turkey. I really hope to learn a thing or two from your classroom management videos as i am having a really difficult time controlling my grade 5 and grade 6 students. I feel like I cannot reach them and there is so much I would like to teach and share with them. I try to make my lessons fun and try to catch their interest but I must say I failed so far. I did however have a few lessons that made me feel happy and satisfied but just when I thought "that's it , I have their interest", I totally lost control of the class the next lesson . The children don't understand much English but the level of English I am supposed to teach them is way above their level ,this makes my job very difficult. As they get lost in the language they get bored. I tried may different things but I am on a tight schedule as the kids have to take a lot of exams here. Almost every week.They are fed up and tired. Do you have any suggestions ? I know that you wouldn't know anything about the education system in Turkey but kids are kids everywhere in the world. I feel like they have this amazing capacity but the education system is failing them. I hope you read this and find the time to answer me back. I also hope that there are more people like you in this world. All the best
I appreciate the wealth of useful information on classroom management. I support all of the previous positive comments. The only rule I have an issue with is the restroom. I have Crohn's disease so someone like me might not be able to wait. I will add the tasks allow students to focus 100 %. I am someone who has taken medication for ADHD in the past. ADHD medications are over-prescribed and Mr. Hester's teaching style minimizes distractions. I know it is more difficult to get parental support at public schools but I know things can improve. It takes a village. I want to add I read the book "13 Reasons Why" featured in the Day 3 Video. There is a minor character - a teacher Ms. Shrumm (page 60 of 373.) The suicide which occurred after a series of events may have been stopped if Ms. Shrumm made sure her classroom was a safe place. Classrooms need to be safe for learning to occur. I love Tyler Hester (Love Agape Style.) I am not sure what role I will have in the future as a teacher. I have been an unpaid caregiver for a family member for the past 7 years. I am now in the grief stage after my loved one recently passed away. I am not sure what can come next. I wish Mr. Hester success in all his future endeavors. I think he would do well as the Secretary of Education for the United States. I know the videos are a few years old. It was a pleasure to see these young scholars who appeared so eager and happy.
This man is incredible. I have rewatched this video (and his Week 1: Day 1 video) and am inspired every single time. 🤩 Thank you so much for posting this. Someone 👏🏼 give 👏🏼 this 👏🏼 man 👏🏼 an 👏🏼 award!!! Or better yet, a raise. LOL 😂
One of your videos said you were going into your last year of teaching. Why are you leaving the classroom? You are one of the best teachers I've ever seen and I'm in my 13th year! I've learned more from you in four videos than I have in my alternative certification program and 13 years of experience in the classroom!! If you won't be in the classroom for our students I hope you'll be in a position to train teachers how to be as effective as you are!
Thanks for sharing! The students seem to really appreciate that you care enough to enforce expectations of them. Gives them a sense of purpose and responsibility for their learning!
Yes, life for a teacher in a Charter School is vastly different and strict teachers with high expectations are very effective. Charter schools were created in response to our broken public school system. Class sizes are much smaller. The entire freshmen class at Mr. Hester's Charter high school is 150, and they have 3 Freshmen English teachers. My school's freshmen class is 500 and we have 4 freshmen English teachers. HUGE difference in work load, stress level and overall job performance. Mr. Hester ends the week tired, yes but emotionally and physically drained, probably not. I am not allowed to give detentions in my school for homework. Any discipline issues must be handled by the teacher and the student cannot be moved for any reason other than expulsion. We have a list of rules regarding student interaction. We are NEVER to touch a student for any reason including a hand shake and we are never to individually call down or point out a student individually so as not to embarrass or be accused of racially profiling any student. Several teachers have been fired for breaking "School Board Policy" over these new rules. Public schools have experienced a huge change since their parents went to school. Charter schools, however, are the middle ground between public and private and is a step up. Students can be removed from the school at any time and sent to their regular public school. It is the best thing to happen to education in 50 years. I am currently trying to get hired in one of 5 charter schools in my area. The waiting list is hundreds of names long of prospective, well qualified, desperate teachers eager to be given an opportunity to teach in a reasonable, legitimate environment designed and focused on teaching students effectively. Our public schools are broken and we have made it impossible for teachers to teach, to be effective and to survive. I'm a teacher, not a Superhero. Mr. Hester is obviously a well-trained teacher who is in the right field, and who has found a good school but there are thousands of teachers just like him leaving the public schools every year - refusing to participate in a very broken system. Thank you.
What area is that? In California, at least the parts I've been in, they can't get enough teachers in these Charter Schools. Some teachers seem to have been picked up off the street (I wish I was exaggerating). One teacher had no degree but was there on a promise that she would graduate... maybe you should move to California? lol
There isn’t the support for teachers like he experiences in the public schools. It’s nothing like it was. I can’t teach them the way I know works bc I have to do what the admin wants and they haven’t been in classrooms in 20 years. I could love teaching if they’d let me teach and give the support and consequences we need to enforce high expectations.
Hi Tyler, Im working in a school where we don't do after school detentions. Apparently we are not allow to keep students after school unless we have expressed consent from the parents. I'm very reluctant to do recess or lunch detentions as we only get 30 min for each I don't want to have to supervise and lose what little break I have. What other suggestions do you have for consequences?
This is my first year of teaching and I am not 100% effective in classroom management. Your video gave me hope to change and become like u in the future ❤
Wow, thank you! It's funny (or sad) but I don't recall learning this much about classroom management during my schooling to become a teacher...it seems it is an oft forgotten aspect of teaching that could make a lot of difference in outcomes. Just my experience/two cents. Anyway, thank you very much for producing and providing this great content. Much appreciated. I'm getting ready to go teach my first middle school students and I'm definitely going to try this!
you are the most coolest handsome and wonderful young teacher I have come across on you tube! God bless you. I have learned many good lessons and will surely utilize your strategies. God Bless you. I love the routines Wow
This is quite revealing and inspiring. Some classroom behaviours from students may require a strict response from the teacher while others require tactful understanding of the motives behind certain weird behaviour from a child in the class. I have greatly benefited from this video of yours and I do acknowledge this with every sense of honesty. Thank. Ogiri John Ogiri Grade 4 teacher Stella Maris Schools Wumba campus Abuja.
I went into teaching right after getting out of the military. People thought I was too "strict" with my students. After the first year, those same people were asking me for class management advice. Being strict doesn't mean you don't care for your students.
Raul Raul that is seriously amazing.
Raul, I am prior military as well and am a teacher now. Thank you for your service. My co-workers said the same thing but classroom management is essential for students to learn. :)
@@arzuinreview8115 Thank you and likewise! What grade do you teach and what branch did you served?
The value of the military leadership training can not be truly understood until you enter into the civilian world.
Arzu in Review Iam prior military and I agree.
When he says the fourth consequence is going to the principal’s office, you know he is at a supportive school.
It really helps when you have the admin that will back you up. Otherwise all the consequences in the world won't matter.
Very true.
Facts!!!!
Absolutely! I would have no problem doing this but admin wouldn’t support the homework policy.
Totally agree
We are not allowed to have consequences at my middle school. I'll be quitting at the end of this year, 20 years in.
He's young...that helps...high expectations...yes...but very, very rarely do they have much of a life outside of school...this coming from a 20 year veteran...notice his apartment...piles of papers everywhere...little furniture....his whole life revolves around his job...it's great, he's wonderful, but we as teachers deserve to have a fulfilling life outside of school as well. If he continues to make teaching his only goal in life he'll eventually burn out...I know this isn't a positive comment but I've seen too many of these videos of teachers who are wonderful like him but don't have the time nor energy nor get paid enough to do much more in life but teach, grade papers and spend their weekends preparing for the next school week.
I was thinking this, ‘I’m a great teacher... how? I spend lunches and after school following up with consequences’
... I think I’ll continue being an average teacher thanks.
I’m almost 40 and I have the same passion and expectations as this young teacher. I also have lots of children and a husband. In addition I run a farm. But my passion is no less than what this teacher has.
I wanted to be at work I would leave at 11am and often didn't come home until 10pm. At&t was pretty much my whole life. I suspect he has no family like me. I did have hobbies that I enjoyed doing.
He might just have good time management skills. My husband is a great teacher like this and rarely does work outside school hours. I'd attribute the look of his home to being a young, single guy.
True he has probably learned, for him and his STYLE of teaching, what managing a class is and how to time manage everything he does in that classroom..yes, his life may evolve around his professional career..it's the level of devotion and commitment he has to his craft, perhaps realistically knowing the demands and rigor he's dealing with..but yes, teachers should also have a life outside of being a teacher. The passion "should" be there, I get it. But so should the life you live while teaching
You can be the best teacher in classroom management and taught for 30 years and there will be some classes that will make you feel like it’s your first year teaching.
No, I’m not being pessimistic and negative. I’m just being realistic.
Incredibly true statement. A friend of mine who is on her 13th year, broke down in tears a few days ago. For whatever reason, this class is driving her to a breaking point. She is questioning whether she should even be a teacher.
She is an excellent teacher; I really admire her style. It pains me to see her struggling with this particular group of kids, but, on the other hand, it also helps remind me on days that I am struggling that even some of the best teachers can have bad days or even bad years.
Yea. I have some really challenging kids this year. Its worst than my first year and I was getting my credential at the same time. But true, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be leaving teaching after this year. Dont know what else lll do, but at least I won't be getting cussed out daily by middle schoolers with little to no consequences because admin nor parents of those kids care.
His comment about some students being 2-4 years behind is very optimistic in my experience. I had a 9th grade student just this year who tested below 1st grade. This is an extreme case, so I didn't quite believe it. I asked him if he tried on the test or just blew it off. He said he tried. I told him I would check his middle school scores before seeking further input on what class he should be placed in (I fully intended him to say he just randomly answered questions because he didn't care about the test, as kids sometimes do). All his reading scores for three previous years were below first grade, with one that was first grade. Generally, I have many students who are many years behind.
Once a few years ago I had two students in 12th grade English who were not fluent in English. The boy could get by speaking English, but simply would not talk in English class (he had a second language class also, and apparently talked in there). The only two words in English I ever heard him say were "bathroom" and "picture" (on picture day, he was asking to go get his picture taken). So I talked to his second language teacher to see what I could do, how I could help him, etc. He told me to have him practice speaking English with his partner, who was only talking to him in Spanish (kids often talk in Spanish now and then--not a problem at all--but mostly they speak to each other in English). So I told them to save Spanish for any other time of the day and practice English with each other during 12th grade English class. Turned out the partner's parents were lawyers, called the principal, and said I was telling kids they couldn't speak Spanish!
I'm as liberal as they come, and I was being labeled as some kind of intolerant doofus simply because I had never heard the kid say more than two words in English in English class. I had no idea what I was expected to do to teach this kid 12 grade high school English.
And the girl was only briefly in my class, scored below first grade on her initial reading test, didn't understand the word "number" when I told her to put her student number in the computer to take the test...and so they transferred her to 11th grade English. ?????
These are the most extreme cases I've had, but there are hundreds that are only slightly better.
So true. Lived it. Survived.
When I was a newer teacher, I thought any management struggles were my fault. And some were, but many were not. It was sometimes difficult to tell the difference between the two when administrators were all too eager to blame everything on you. Thirteen or fourteen years ago in my old district I had a class from hell, in a tiny room (I was only in there one period), with one partition (fake) wall, and half-moon tables pushed into circle tables that were set up for honors classes (my period was NOT honors). My class simply could not function at group tables. It took me 6 weeks to train them to smoothly move the tables so they were all facing forward, and then smoothly move them back at the end of class.
In the middle of the semester, a girl was transferred into my class. She had moved from the other side of the state, and was now living with her grandmother. I came to find out she had been kicked out of her other school for fighting, and her mother sent her to live with grandma for a while. So after a couple of weeks in my class, she gets in a fight at lunch and was suspended. At my evaluation, my administrator said that she "wasn't sure" if the girl got in a fight because she was in my class! ...as if I had been some kind of negative effect on her. A) The girl got kicked out of her last school for fighting. B) She never got in a fight in my class. C) She didn't get in a fight with anyone IN my class. D) Her lunch was *before* my class in the daily schedule, so it wasn't as if she was angry about something that happened in my class and then got in a fight right after at lunch. And E) she'd only been in my class a couple of weeks.
I just stared, incredulous. Even as green as I was back then, I knew the suggestion that her fighting was my fault was insane.
He said the "C" word. CONSEQUENCES. Too many educators want to be buddies with the kids. These kids need boundaries....they thrive if they are managed well.
@@hq880 I read your comments,and think that you could learn to make your point without the insults.
@@nidurnevets HQ only made those comments because he went to school once and didn't like it so never went back.
Hq....I can't even get past your causticness to even understand your point... so your efforts are totally nill....what vemnom!
@@hq880 New way of teaching isn't as effective... I've seen teachers try to implement what you preach and it all demolishes to a lousy classroom that can't be quiet or respectful.
@@hq880 He's right you wasted your time reading all that you brainwashed twit.
I am just starting my second year of teaching. A couple of years ago I saw your videos and thought you were too strict, too cold, your expectations were too high for middle schoolers. Now I'm teaching in a challenging school and my classroom management is awful, my kids don't respect me, and behaviour problems in my classes are draining me. You were right all along - by letting my kids get away with so much, I'm telling them that I don't expect much of them. Semester 2 starts next week and I'm ready to start fresh with high expectations, clear and consistent consequences, and a belief that I can get more or of my students than they could ever imagine. Thank you for these videos!
I hope you were able to do that
So, how was it?
I also hope you did it well and now you are enjoying your work
Kick them their buttons
Courtney Fleming Yup can't have any open doors.
People like that are the real heros of our time. Much respect to Tyler Hester.
I knew someone would have a negative comment. This TEACHER teaches the way I did and I had positive outcomes. I bet the last day of school they have tears and so does Mr.Hester. he loves them!!!!
He has such a handsome, warm, kind face think truly his great soul shines through too...which makes a massive difference I salute you ⭐ Mr Hester they respect you because you respect them
Those words from the student "I do care...I want to go to college and do something in life" ...Mr.Hester proved it, made it, seeded it. Much respect for Mr.Hester for bringing up light to those bright lives🖤
Mr. Hester seems like an excellent teacher with excellent classroom management skills. Classroom management is easy sometimes, and sometimes classroom management is hard. Classroom management is more a learned skill than an innate skill. It takes practice, experience, trial and error, learning from experience, experiencing and teaching a variety of different kinds of classes, attending seminars on classroom management, reading books on classroom management, etc to get good at classroom management. People can definitely improve when it comes to classroom management. A lot of experienced teachers with excellent classroom management skills struggled with classroom management during their beginning years as a teacher. There are some people who have good classroom management skills, and there are some people with bad classroom management skills, but no one is perfect in regards to classroom management.
When a teacher has a challenging class, it's not always the teacher's fault. Just because a teacher has a challenging class doesn't mean he or she has poor classroom management skills. A lot of teachers with great classroom management skills have challenging classes. When a teacher calls the office to request someone to come to the classroom to remove a student from the classroom due to him or her continuing to be disruptive, it doesn't always mean the teacher has poor classroom management skills. When a student is continuing to be disruptive, threatening the safety of the students in the classroom, etc, them being removed from the classroom is an appropriate consequence, and those situations are not a sign that the teacher has poor classroom management skills.
There are times where it's appropriate to call the office to request someone to come to the classroom for a discipline issue, and there are times where it's best for a teacher to handle the issue in the classroom without calling the office to request someone to come to the classroom for a discipline issue. I believe in calling the office in last resort situations, severe behavior situations, and any behavior situation where the safety of students is in jeopardy. Fighting, being cussed out by a student, being threatened by a student, throwing books, staplers, chairs, etc across the room, students leaving the classroom without permission, etc are definitely the kinds of issues that warrant a teacher calling the office. When a student is being disruptive in class, a teacher should try to do whatever they can control the disruptive behavior in the classroom, but when a teacher has tried everything they can in the classroom to control the disruptive behavior, and the student is still continuing to disruptive to the learning environment, it's in the best interest of the class that the student be removed from the classroom.
Good classroom management skills in my opinion means knowing what behavior issues to address, knowing what not to address, how you handle behavior issues in the classroom, having engaging lessons to keep students interested and engaged in the material, using prevention methods in the classroom to help prevent disruptive behavior from happening, using positive reinforcement to motivate students to behave, calling the office in last resort situations, severe behavior situations, or any behavior situation where the safety of students is in jeopardy, being consistent in discipline and how you handle consequences for poor behavior in the classroom, making the classroom an environment where students feel safe and are able to concentrate on their work, etc.
I wish Mr. Hester the best in life. Mr. Hester's teaching videos are excellent. Keep up the great work with the teaching videos.
I never once encountered a teacher like this. Wish I could have. He is absolutely AMAZING!
He really cares and it shows. You can feel it. WOW! I love this teacher. ❤👍❤
Mr. Hester has "the calm". This, along with his consistency are the keys to his success. 😎
This is what educating is all about. A teacher that cares about their students in both their learning and well being. A teacher that is prepared to go above and beyond is what the education system needs. Tyler Hester is clear evidence of the value of caring for the future of your students. @Neng Mau the main point is yes you will have days like that and days where you can feel like chucking it all in. BUT when you believe in the students and you don't give up on the students and you show you will keep helping and being there for them then slowly but surely they will come around to a working relationship and will be glad to be part of the class and work to the best of their ability.
Congratulations to this young teacher. That said, calls home and visits to the office don't mean a thing without support. Earning respect is a wonderful goal but difficult to attain when not supported. That, unfortunately, is a reality in many areas.
Tyler,
I am about to start teaching. I have been an environmental scientist for three years since I graduated. However, there was a teaching crisis and that was a need that needed to be met first. So I will stepping into a T1 school this fall as a bio teacher. I have so many questions, a problem with emergency certification, but stumbling upon your videos, book, and ministry has been a Godsend. I want to teach like you do. I have watched all of your videos and am going through the 7 steps you suggest. Thank you for finding a way to provide structure and love for students, as well as providing for us. The teachers who never thought they would teach but have no shortage of love for these kids.
Praying for your continued contribution to education in our country.
Casey
Wish I was in his class! he's an impressive teacher.
Please upload more videos, I've watched all of them and it would have been nice if there were more of them.
I have been teaching for 29 years. After viewing this video, that I so appreciate, I am just in tears! Thank you for the action that follows your heart. Tell your mom for me, that she is to be commended for raising a righteous man. I really loved your honesty about your first year of teaching. I respect how you decided not to continue to struggle but to change, to learn to manage our students. I am doing the same and in my quest I am coming across some great resources, like you. Thank you very much.
I'm really glad I came across this channel. I'm looking into being a teacher. you're a great teacher. My highschool teacher is waiting for me to get out of college so I can help her. Doing something for the first time isn't that easy at the beginning, but once you get the hang of it, you make plans on how you want to handle a class, how you're going to handle a class, everything will be alright. When my teacher told me to handle a class of seniors, I lost control as well. They won't listen, until I yelled and the room was filled with silenced. You're teaching skills inspired me to do my best. Keep inspiring these students. I believe they will be successful.
I am going to start teaching full time next month and I had the easiest time during my training the last two years in a lovely quiet countryside school, but I was worried about controlling rowdier classes the coming year. Thank you for the inspirational videos that gave lots of great ideas that I will try to use next year!
WOW! Mr. Hester, you are an inspiration. My name is Darlene and graduated from Salem State University( before it was a university) in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. I never became a classroom teacher. Here is the reason why. On the final teacher practicum, in a first-grade classroom, my college supervisor came observation my first two lesson plans and graded me with outstanding markers. Nice right? however, the classroom teacher did not believe I desired such high marks her exact words were " No one ever gets outstanding grades on their first observations!" I could not believe this. There was a meeting which may have attended for part of. From there on, my college supervisor lowered my grades. Well, come to find out I believe the teacher was holding a grudge. My aunt lived up the street which I happened to mention. I would go and visit her and my cousins sometimes after student teaching. The teacher had my younger cousin in her class the year before and she did not get along with my aunt because they made educational recommendations that my cousin required special education( and she probably did). My aunt may have had the attitude "not my daughter". The classroom teacher refused to sign my document for licensure. This is a teaching practicum gone wrong. I blame the college for not placing me in another school. I am now 58 years old and still, it hurts. I did go back in 1994 to a different school and did an 8-week practicum that had the best teacher and students. Though because my self-confidence was crushed I never taught. I changed careers in 1998 with an associate degree in Occupational Therapy. Worked in school placement OT for two and a half years. the in Geriatrics for 15 years. Now I'm looking for work again hopefully with a school system. I share this with you because teachers need to be aware of keeping personal issues out of the student teachers' academic learning. I enjoy your videos. I watched it for a class I am currently taking on behavior management. I continue to keep up my teachers license because I own it!
I am studying to become a teacher. you have been my inspiration Mr. Hester. Amazing how the world works nowadays! God bless you
This is exactly what I have been looking for! I am starting student teaching this Spring and I am researching how to effectively manage my classroom in the Urban setting. Your video on the first day of school is the most enlightening resource tool I have found. I only encounter proverbs and words of advise; I needed a real example of what that first day looked like. Thank you!
I really like that he greets each kid. I remember a manager at work that would walk by my desk and say good morning to me I felt like I had value.
I love your videos. I learned more observing you in four RUclips videos than I have in six years as a substitute and observing others. I'm now a Spanish teacher at a high school and I feel like it's my first *real* year, taking only cues from your classes. I've never had the control like I do now, and we cover more material, more in depth, in a shorter amount of time. The kids are loving my class, I've never gotten compliments from students before. Honestly, even the way you prep your board helped me!! Please, please post more videos!
"Click here to see some of the documents that Mr. Hester used to set expectations and to keep his class running well" www.agapemanagement.org
Thank you!!!
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DanielJr I'm scared to be a teacher.
Very nice
Mr. Hester needs to write a classroom management book.
He did: gumroad.com/l/teacher7steps :)
He is such an amazing teacher. I am truly glad I found these videos. Going in to education I think that I've learned something from
Him. And he's very good looking but that's Another story
Please know that your videos have totally refreshed and inspired me. I am a new teacher about to delve into teaching 6th grade Writing to the same students I had such a bad experience with as a permanent substitute last semester. Not one day did I have control of my classroom, and there were many days that I (and the teachers on my team) complained of not being able to teach because of constant behavior issues. I am looking to start anew being my best self (not the green-eyed monster I felt I was everyday of this past semester) and to with genuine love help my students realize their goals of going to college and being successful.
Teachers ought to have to serve as 'apprentice teachers' alongside 'master educators' in the masters' classrooms for several years in the same type of situation that gives us master electricians, master carpenters, master plumbers and the rest of the 'trades'. Start as an apprentice, move up to journeyman, then finally achieve master status. Education is so important, kids deserve the best of the best in every class, in every grade.
Lark Bird I agree 100 % doing my first semester as a teacher. I have implemented some of his ideas. Classroom seating, greeting by the door, strict rules, high expectations, honesty and care
You're so right! In my own experience (teaching adult immigrants in Norway), I got about two opportunities to sit in in experienced teachers' classes, and then I was thrown out there. For me it's all worked out well, as far as I can tell, but at the time I did really wish I could get more opportunities to see how others do it.
I agree. That's what I did for a year. First half was junior teaching, second half senior teaching with the lead teacher as a mentor and guide. Best experience of my life. And the proof? This is my 30th year of teaching and I'm still going strong. 🥰
We do. I’m assigned to shadow with a teacher who taught for 30 years.
I said the same thing at my school district. They called me crazy. Plus I believe we should teach for 90% mastery with a Montessori approach. Also utilize technology to enhance one on one approaches and remove elements of classroom management. Another words what you put into it is what you get out of it. Reap what you sow.
Thank you so much for the insightful video on classroom management. I have been teaching English for three decades, but still, you inspired me a lot. I continue to learn about how to care for students so their expectations could be higher for their success. You are a great teacher indeed.
I am in my second year teaching, first year in a public school, teaching 6th grade science. I knew going into this year that I was going to have to do things drastically different going from a single class of eight students to six classes of 30-35 kids each.
I've just ended my first week and taken a ton of cues from you. I am amazed how much I have been able to communicate and project my expectations, and see kids stay on task, even in these first few days. Thanks for these videos, I plan on watching and re-watching daily.
I was actually looking up videos for my classroom management class when I found your videos, and I'm glad I stumbled upon them. I will be student teaching this coming fall, although I'll be at the elementary school your videos really set the example for me in a current classroom on how to set those expectations. Thank you!
He knew from experience what he had to do to finally get a hold of the class, & reach those kids. Good job.
This made me cry. Thank you for sharing videos like this. I also became obsessed with class management when I became a 2nd grade teacher.
This brought me back great memories.
Thank you for sharing your video content with us. It is the path of light for new educators.
Dear Mr. Hester,
As an educator who taught in DC and now in China, this video resonated with me so much. Education is a civil rights' issue. Discipline is love. And, all people, children and adults, want to be valued, acknowledged, loved, and heard. Keep doing what you're doing to ensure that your students know that they matter. We all grapple with how to make impact when we realize the injustices of education. I am so happy that you found your space. I, too, am abroad currently, but always keeping the mission of ensuring quality education for disadvantaged people, particularly Black students for me, near to my heart. I literally came across this video looking for content to help my friend who has taught before in China at a training center but is now teaching full time in the classroom at a school in Sudan. He is having a hard-time in the classroom, and I plan to show him this video. I think teacher mentorship is so important. If he could see what investment, relationship building, effective and engaging instruction, and no-nonsense, nurturing, discipline looks like, it would benefit him greatly!
Keep up the good work. Continue to inspire others. And, may God bless you tremendously for all of your efforts in this life!
All the best,
Gabrielle Westbrook
I agree with most of what he says. Setting standards on day one, being consistent, etc. All very important. I began teaching in 1977 and am still teaching. Uggh. But I'm at school at 7:15 in the morning, have lunch duty, after-school care, and leave most days at 5:45 p.m. I also have five different preps and teach 6 periods out of 7. I believe what he has said, but I honestly do not have the energy at the end of the day to make lots of parent phone calls, etc. by the time I finish grading everything. Teachers often have very little life outside of the classroom. It's sad that as a teacher, I rarely read anything for pleasure because between classes and professional development requirements, there is no time. And I bring home less than $2000 a month.
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Thank you, Mr. Hester, for the inspiration and advice.
The rules of learning have to be made clear from the very beginning .
Absolutely!
Great video. I teach nursing and am known for being demanding, but my post-course evaluations often say that they learned more in my class than they had the entire program. Some who have had an attitude later tell me that they were never held accountable or to the high level I expect. They thank me for raising the bar and tell me how they got more out of the rotation. Plus, many former students stay in touch, text me the minute they pass their nursing state exam, and some even text me for moral support their very first day alone on the job (once they're off orientation) as "real" nurses. Students need structure, accountability, love, and support.
Imagine that...discipline works. As a veteran teacher I've watch education fall apart with parents and teachers trying to be "friends" with the kids. They are not your friend. They are not your peer or equal. You are the adult. Be the leader kids need so they can become responsible, respectful citizens who can live fulfilling and successful lives. Bravo for stepping up and doing what our students need, not what they want.
This is Truly amazing. This is what a kind heart is.
If I had such strict and sterile teachers growing up, I don't think I would be going to college today to be a teacher. I'm incredibly thankful for the teachers that I had growing up, who didn't depend on pedant and decorum: but who literally breathed inspiration into the classroom and connected with us students individually at a personal level.
Quite inspiring piece Mr. Hester. I learnt a lot even though i have more than 10 yrs experience.
Engaging, intriguing and inspirational.. AWESOME!👍
Amazing teacher and individual ! Glad there are teachers out there like you !
I enjoyed these videos so much. He needs to do more videos.
Mr. Hester you have a good way of teaching. Before seeing your videos I believed I am the only one who is teaching in a fantastic way. But you are also have a collaborative way teaching. I personally believes teaching students resilience is one of the great way to take students out of failure frustration. I hope I will broadcast my videos someday and you will watch those videos.
This coming school year will be my first year as a teacher and I was so worried about setting expectations in the first meetings. I'll definitely be using your timeline of meeting students at the door and making sure all of their time is being used effectively. Thank you!
God bless your passion and efforts. Plant seeds in those kids.
i didn't have such an opportunity in my whole life .... i'm English teacher her in Egypt and just saw u teaching made me cry .. thanks for this feeling u gave me .. now i know how to be a good teacher
Love this video keep doing an excellent job we need more teachers like you.
Thank you Mr. Albert and Mrs. Alford. This video reminded me of y’all..
I watch your classroom management video recorded on the first day of the first week. It was inspiring. Thank you.
I love your approach! My first year was my easy year. This year is my second and it is very challenging due to the maturity level of the students. Last year I used the same techniques as I am using this year and it is just not working as well. Your approach is what I needed in the very beginning. It is getting better!
Love it!! Although I have a different classroom management style, those basic principles apply--especially now. Because I love you, I will treat you like I love you--the agape love. The love that says, when you mess up, I am here and we will try it again. The love that gets you up in the morning and stirs your dreams to get them going. Yeah. I got you Mr. Hester. Bravo.
I love your classroom management. thank you so much for sharing. I like the dynamism in delivering the words from you.
This stuff only works with kids who ain’t violent though. Because certain individuals will chuckle at the notion of a teacher “enforcing” his expectation
Right.
Well done! Our teens need teachers like you. You're an inspiration!
what i see is not management but fear of losing control, fear of noise, this is definitely not normal
LOL for some reason your comment made me laugh a bit but you're right.
@@marysutton434 ^_^ glad you found it amusing,
im a teacher btw and i think most teachers know that too many rules can suffocate students and restrict their freedom, which make them hate the class after a while, you have to give them their space and make them relaxed and teach them responsibility so they can respect the class and respect you, thats how you manage them specially if they are teenagers or younger, they have a lot of energy and its so wrong and so hard to inhibit or contain that energy, its better to exploit that energy in learning
@@Hisham_HMA right.
Mr. Hester, Thank you thank you thank you. I watched all 4 videos and I now feel like I have a better grasp on what to do next year in teaching. I'm a 3rd year teacher coming from an alternative certification program and NO ONE was able to help me or show me how to get a class started on the first few days of school. This really helped! I appreciate everything you are doing and please keep posting. I'll be watching.
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I love his teaching passion!
I would have never seen a 'first day' in action without this video! Thank you so much. From the moment your students arrived you guided and modeled to them your expectations. I am a new teacher and this information will change my first day (week) forever.
I took over an 8th grade class in Dec last year and had the year of ***. I watched your video over the summer, integrated many of your concepts, and my 6th grade seems to be running very smoothly. You Rock, man! You are a true DWEEB! (that's the highest complement from me, btw...)
I need to know more about managment.I have to do it later on in one of my class.you really inspire me, as I am listening to you attentively.your advice you are given to the class has given me confidence to go for it when I am ready. Thanks a lot
Getting ready to start my 2nd year teaching in the D.R. I taught for 11 years in the states before moving here. These videos have been motivating me to strive to be better and more consistent in the classroom. Thanks for doing what you do!
Mr. Hester is my kind of teacher. We appreciate you.
you are doing a great job sir , all respect and best wishes🙏👏🌹
I love watching your video, especially when the new school year begins. Thank you for sharing your classroom management strategies.
Awesome video, love love love your techniques! I'm truly inspired. I wish someone as good as you would do something similar for Elementary/Sped classroom. By the way, I love the "I Am From" poem....I did it in grad school, it helps you reflect on who you are in a cool way. Keep doing what you do, God bless!
Absolutely great video! I share it with others. Thanks for being a great teacher
Hello Mr Hester, I have just discovered your videos. Thank you so much for sharing them with us, they are brilliant.
My name is Seda and I am an English teacher at a school in the Egian coast of Turkey. I really hope to learn a thing or two from your classroom management videos as i am having a really difficult time controlling my grade 5 and grade 6 students.
I feel like I cannot reach them and there is so much I would like to teach and share with them. I try to make my lessons fun and try to catch their interest but I must say I failed so far. I did however have a few lessons that made me feel happy and satisfied but just when I thought "that's it , I have their interest", I totally lost control of the class the next lesson . The children don't understand much English but the level of English I am supposed to teach them is way above their level ,this makes my job very difficult. As they get lost in the language they get bored. I tried may different things but I am on a tight schedule as the kids have to take a lot of exams here. Almost every week.They are fed up and tired. Do you have any suggestions ? I know that you wouldn't know anything about the education system in Turkey but kids are kids everywhere in the world. I feel like they have this amazing capacity but the education system is failing them.
I hope you read this and find the time to answer me back. I also hope that there are more people like you in this world.
All the best
I appreciate the wealth of useful information on classroom management. I support all of the previous positive comments. The only rule I have an issue with is the restroom. I have Crohn's disease so someone like me might not be able to wait. I will add the tasks allow students to focus 100 %. I am someone who has taken medication for ADHD in the past. ADHD medications are over-prescribed and Mr. Hester's teaching style minimizes distractions. I know it is more difficult to get parental support at public schools but I know things can improve. It takes a village. I want to add I read the book "13 Reasons Why" featured in the Day 3 Video. There is a minor character - a teacher Ms. Shrumm (page 60 of 373.) The suicide which occurred after a series of events may have been stopped if Ms. Shrumm made sure her classroom was a safe place. Classrooms need to be safe for learning to occur. I love Tyler Hester (Love Agape Style.) I am not sure what role I will have in the future as a teacher. I have been an unpaid caregiver for a family member for the past 7 years. I am now in the grief stage after my loved one recently passed away. I am not sure what can come next. I wish Mr. Hester success in all his future endeavors. I think he would do well as the Secretary of Education for the United States. I know the videos are a few years old. It was a pleasure to see these young scholars who appeared so eager and happy.
This man is incredible. I have rewatched this video (and his Week 1: Day 1 video) and am inspired every single time. 🤩 Thank you so much for posting this.
Someone 👏🏼 give 👏🏼 this 👏🏼 man 👏🏼 an 👏🏼 award!!!
Or better yet, a raise. LOL 😂
One of your videos said you were going into your last year of teaching. Why are you leaving the classroom? You are one of the best teachers I've ever seen and I'm in my 13th year! I've learned more from you in four videos than I have in my alternative certification program and 13 years of experience in the classroom!! If you won't be in the classroom for our students I hope you'll be in a position to train teachers how to be as effective as you are!
Brilliant...this should be recommended watching for more than a few teachers & administrators. It's hard, but possible.
Your videos are just awesome. We need more content 🙌
Thanks for sharing! The students seem to really appreciate that you care enough to enforce expectations of them. Gives them a sense of purpose and responsibility for their learning!
Yes, life for a teacher in a Charter School is vastly different and strict teachers with high expectations are very effective. Charter schools were created in response to our broken public school system. Class sizes are much smaller. The entire freshmen class at Mr. Hester's Charter high school is 150, and they have 3 Freshmen English teachers. My school's freshmen class is 500 and we have 4 freshmen English teachers. HUGE difference in work load, stress level and overall job performance. Mr. Hester ends the week tired, yes but emotionally and physically drained, probably not. I am not allowed to give detentions in my school for homework. Any discipline issues must be handled by the teacher and the student cannot be moved for any reason other than expulsion. We have a list of rules regarding student interaction. We are NEVER to touch a student for any reason including a hand shake and we are never to individually call down or point out a student individually so as not to embarrass or be accused of racially profiling any student. Several teachers have been fired for breaking "School Board Policy" over these new rules. Public schools have experienced a huge change since their parents went to school. Charter schools, however, are the middle ground between public and private and is a step up. Students can be removed from the school at any time and sent to their regular public school. It is the best thing to happen to education in 50 years. I am currently trying to get hired in one of 5 charter schools in my area. The waiting list is hundreds of names long of prospective, well qualified, desperate teachers eager to be given an opportunity to teach in a reasonable, legitimate environment designed and focused on teaching students effectively. Our public schools are broken and we have made it impossible for teachers to teach, to be effective and to survive. I'm a teacher, not a Superhero. Mr. Hester is obviously a well-trained teacher who is in the right field, and who has found a good school but there are thousands of teachers just like him leaving the public schools every year - refusing to participate in a very broken system. Thank you.
What area is that? In California, at least the parts I've been in, they can't get enough teachers in these Charter Schools. Some teachers seem to have been picked up off the street (I wish I was exaggerating). One teacher had no degree but was there on a promise that she would graduate... maybe you should move to California? lol
There isn’t the support for teachers like he experiences in the public schools. It’s nothing like it was. I can’t teach them the way I know works bc I have to do what the admin wants and they haven’t been in classrooms in 20 years. I could love teaching if they’d let me teach and give the support and consequences we need to enforce high expectations.
Teachers have to be the ones to fix the broken system. They should stop 🛑 supporting a union that protects mediocrity and failing teaches .
ohmusicsweetmusic Where I live i substituted and there was a charter school that would ask me to come in.
Yeah, boy! 37.5 years ahead of you. This is what I expected, in both HS and JH Band. Students won awards and grew strong in learning.
He is amazing teacher. God bless. And good luck. Thanks for this video
This is so great. The ways u adapt in da class room is so effective. Tnx a lot.
Great job! You are inspiring.
He is teaching them to take responsibility for their actions.
I like the idea of calling home with positive comments after turning in a certain amount tokens. It's honestly one of the best rewards I've seen.
I love you decided to teach than get a PhD Mr. Hester, the country needs people like you. ❤️
And now he is getting his PhD, and has not been a classroom teacher since 2012.
Thank u very much! i hope other teachers learn from u! God bless u
Hi Tyler, Im working in a school where we don't do after school detentions. Apparently we are not allow to keep students after school unless we have expressed consent from the parents. I'm very reluctant to do recess or lunch detentions as we only get 30 min for each I don't want to have to supervise and lose what little break I have. What other suggestions do you have for consequences?
man you are awesome... such an inspiration.... I am a 34 year old terminal PhD student
I am teacher and i really love your classroom management tactics
This is my first year of teaching and I am not 100% effective in classroom management. Your video gave me hope to change and become like u in the future ❤
Your comment is 1 year old now. Would you say you've improved?
What an incredible man.
I am fortunate to see this video. Hats off bruv
This is a very good source for a research paper
Wow, thank you! It's funny (or sad) but I don't recall learning this much about classroom management during my schooling to become a teacher...it seems it is an oft forgotten aspect of teaching that could make a lot of difference in outcomes. Just my experience/two cents. Anyway, thank you very much for producing and providing this great content. Much appreciated. I'm getting ready to go teach my first middle school students and I'm definitely going to try this!
Nice. Awesome cause. God bless!!!
you are the most coolest handsome and wonderful young teacher I have come across on you tube! God bless you. I have learned many good lessons and will surely utilize your strategies. God Bless you. I love the routines Wow
I wish I had a awsome high school teacher like that
This is quite revealing and inspiring. Some classroom behaviours from students may require a strict response from the teacher while others require tactful understanding of the motives behind certain weird behaviour from a child in the class. I have greatly benefited from this video of yours and I do acknowledge this with every sense of honesty. Thank.
Ogiri John Ogiri
Grade 4 teacher
Stella Maris Schools
Wumba campus
Abuja.