One concern I often here from new teachers is that their room is just too noisy. They feel if there is any noise then that means they have no classroom management skills and therefore their students aren’t learning.

On the flip side, I often go into classrooms of veteran teachers and you can actually here a pin drop on any given day during the course of the entire school year.

So which is better?

The truth is there is “good” noise and “bad” noise. The teacher’s job is not to stop all the noise, but rather to increase the “good” noise and decrease the “bad” noise.

As Dr. Harlen Hansen states, “Good noise means learning. Bad noise means the children are out of control. No Noise means adults don’t understand the nature of children.”

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