Classroom Management - Classroom Tour

[A]

There's a lot of hate for a guy who is trying to help. I appreciate your efforts Mr. Hester.

[morgano]

Super helpful !  You are a very great teacher! I almost cried when you told the kids you have binders for students who can't afford them. Truly amazing. Thank you for not only being a great teacher but being committed to educating children the RIGHT way !! Kudos  !!

[bz]

Mr. Hester, I am an attorney who changed careers to become a high school social studies teacher and am currently doing everything I can to get better at classroom management as I seek my first permanent teaching position. I'll just say that I've watched a few of your videos on the subject and MAN, there is a lot we rookies can learn from you. So thanks for posting and keep being the awesome teacher that you are for your students!!!

[kaylacook]

I love how he's like, "I know you're going to do great things too!" He's so motivating. Goals.

[nadiagonzalez]

Mr.Hester is an awesome teacher! Wish I had him in 9th grade English! You can tell he really cares about his students and their education! I love his positive encouragement!

[arnieyanga]

Your first video about classroom management was very helpful both for us new teachers in the US and seasoned teachers as well. I've been teaching for 7 years in the Phil. and now will be teaching in the US for the first time. It was also awesome on how you handle that student of yours with attitude. It was nice and positively done.

[chelseagolub]

I wanted to say thank you for your resources. Some kids need more structure than others. My students don't need quite so much, but on the other hand, I need to become more consistent and have better structures in place. So, thank you for your great ideas and especially for your rocking syllabus. I really appreciate some of the materials in the dropbox files. You're super awesome and generous for sharing it with the public. Thanks again!!

[anitasuppiah]

Hi Mr. Hester, I'm Anita from Malaysia. I teach year 3 and 4 in a home school. I am so motivated and was blown away with how you have conducted your grade 9 students so effortlessly! I loved your tour of the classroom management and can't wait to start something similar to get going with for the following year. You are an amazing teacher! Hope to see more of your interesting videos and fun ways to captivate student's attention. Thanks so much!

[jenniferstark]

Wow. Just wow. I have really enjoyed and benefited a lot from these videos! Thank you for sharing. I spent all day today making notes to really hit this coming year hard, and your videos were the most helpful, and least staged/annoying :) I really can tell that you've done a lot of research and a lot of preparation to teach your students the best and teach them how to teach and manage themselves. Your students, like my students in rural Texas, have little to nothing, so structure and management are the key components for us as well. Last year, I was hired mid year and 4 days before even graduating at a low-income title one school after a student tried to stab a teacher with a pencil, and she was moved after a nervous breakdown. She had lost. A kind, caring, and extremely intelligent teacher had been taken down by 34 or so students. Thankfully, I look a bit "rough around the edges" and most gave me respect because I one, look pretty hard (one on the first day asked if I had been to jail, and another if I rode a motorcycle, neither of which I do), and two, I was real with them about myself and my expectations, and firm. I was not; however, any where near a good teacher, or close to being the teacher I want to be. Hence, massive video searching and note taking.


Anyways, would love to get a hold of those, appreciate you for all the assistance you have posted for us, and appreciate all that you're doing in the classroom :)

--A Zero Year Teacher

[sabinebachner]

I will be starting my 4th year in a couple of days and I am still referring back to your videos and especially the first two weeks lesson plan. Buying your book was one of the best ideas I ever had! Thank you!

[galindaeverhart]

Mr. Hester (maybe Dr. Hester by now)...WOW! Thank you for hours of putting in to these videos. I will be using them as training videos with my first year teachers. Well done! So practical and SO RICH with content to train with.

[evelinnavarro]

Wow you are a Great Teacher! I am Not a Teacher i wish i had a teacher like you when i was in high school back then now I'm 29 yrs old i was in special classes because i was slow in reading and math and have a earing problem since i was small i was in special class since middle school to high school kids used to bullying me i never talk about it until now i did not finish high school i have 3 beautiful children now and a amazing husband 👨‍👧‍👧👩‍👦i am a homestay mom I'm going to get my G.E.D online in couple of weeks i can't go to college to get it because i get anxiety when I'm with alot of people Around me wish me good lock🍀i wish they will be more Teachers like you!🙏❤ God Bless you! I just wanted to share my story greetings from Arizona

[knowthyself]

I'm a teacher about to enter my first year of teaching in disadvantaged schools in the UK helping in my own small way to end educational inequality. I just wanted to say that you are an inspiration!

[joanlynch]

I like watching your classes. I am really impressed with your credentials and your abilities with the students. They really respond to you and your methods. Good luck with whatever you are doing, sure it is a success.

[muslimadeenulislam]

👏👍wow congratulations Mr. Hester! You are such an inspirational teacher. I've been watching all your vids and your so sharp man. Keep it going your kids will really appreciate you being their teacher. Thanks again for all the tips and for sharing your amazing classroom. All the very best to you sir.

[ellenlewitt]

Thanks for your wonderful and inspiring videos. I don’t know about everyone else, but my approach to watching your lessons is to take what works for me and discard the rest. What does everyone want here-to be spoon fed? I have been hanging out in teacher lounges recently as I am finishing up my student teaching, and I’ve gotta say, the teachers who regularly complain and criticize others seem to be the ones who have given up on education.

[luvelyjay]

You are an amazing teacher! All the negative comments are from people are are jealous of how successful you've been as an educator at getting results and respect from your students. Ignore the haters! Continue to believe in your ability to push and inspire your students to achieve what many have said is impossible for them to attain. Although the injustice in our education system may not vanish, you can make a difference in the lives of those kids that you see everyday. For many, you are the first person who have ever believed in them and that makes a world of difference in the outcome of their lives. You get a glitter ✨ pound 👊🏾 from me Mr. Hester. If only many teachers were like you!! Best wishes 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[mahdienglish]

So amazing, I liked the stuff and the way you arranged the classroom. Keep going !

[TheSHSHHHS]

Sr. Hester: Felicidades! Sus videos me han motivado a mejorar mis prácticas pedagógicas. Gracias por compartir.

[cordasuenaviolin]

You wonderful, Mr Hester!! Congratulations!!