Daniel Marques

Classroom Hierarchy: 50 Rules to Become a Dominant, Loved, Respected and Admired Teacher Daniel Marques

What can teachers with dozens of years of experience in different countries prove about hierarchy in the classroom was the subject of analysis that led to the resume of the laws expressed in this book. Based on the observation of different cases regarding teachers with different nationalities, it was concluded that those that are able to create a strong hierarchy inside the classroom tend to have more success. It was also concluded that a good teaching methodology has absolutely no effect without a strong hierarchy, but also that a strong hierarchy can discard, or not, the use of different methodologies. Knowing which principles are those proves to be crucial to any teacher. Many of those principles intersect with the personality of the teacher, reason why it proves to be so difficult to identify them. For the purpose of this book, teachers from Europe and Asia were observed and interviewed, with the intention of finding the most evident rules they follow, aware or not of them in order to create what is presented here.