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How should we arrange the seats in the classroom? How should we give instructions to our students? What interaction patterns should we employ in class? What should we do if there are discipline problems? After reading this chapter, do you know what strategy they belong to? What kind of management strategy did your teachers use? What are the similarities and differences among their management strategies? Why do you think they used them? Can you summarize your own ideas on effective management strategies?

Key: 1) The seats of the classroom should be arranged according to the size of the class. The arrangement should meet different kinds of classroom activities. Meanwhile, it should help the teacher to monitor the class and students to see the teacher’s presentation. 2) Different interaction patterns may be adopted based on the needs. It can be the interaction between teacher and the whole class and can also be the interaction between one student and another student, one student and several other students or a group of students and another group of students. 3) If discipline problems arise, teachers should be calm enough to evaluate the situation and be flexible enough to make judgments as to whether some changes should be made. 4) They belong to the teacher-strategy since they are concerned with how the teacher manages and leads the class. 5) For classroom management, my teachers invariably adopt the orderly rows, since the class is very big and much of the time is spent on listening to the teacher. Not many movements are involved. As for instruction strategy, my teachers demonstrate after giving out clear instructions and always check whether we have understood their meaning. And for activity-selection strategy, they combine the participation-oriented strategy and the goal-oriented strategy. 6) They all want to ensure the discipline of the class and make sure the class goes on as expected. The difference is that some teachers are too focused on one single strategy and are at a loss when something goes wrong. 7) They use the strategies partly because they are effective and best for the existent circumstances, partly because they are the most common strategies know to the teaching circle. 8) Effective management strategies are important in that they are part of the teaching. Whether management strategies are effective or not will decide the quality of teaching and learning. Without proper management strategies, all the preparation work might become futile.