Classroom Management (Photo: Creative Commons 2013) One challenge that I’m currently having with classroom management is maintaining my consistently enforcing the rules with my afternoon class. On the outside, it doesn’t really make any sense that one class should be so trying. It is the third time I teach 7th grade science during the day, so I should have worked out all the kinks in my lesson by then. Many of the students in this class are in my homeroom, and I’d like to think that we have a good rapport, so they should attend to the lesson. Perhaps my problem lies in that I typically start my day at 5:45 am, so by 1:05pm, I am worn down. Or, maybe they misbehave so much because they are energized by the freedom of lunch and recess during the previous class period? Did I mention that this particular group of students has the most learning differences and most referrals in the entire 7th grade, and perhaps in the whole middle school? Lawson (2010), rem...