Running a Classroom

      I was catching up on tweets this morning when I came across a post from a someone who I just met and added last weekend and he is quickly becoming one of my favorite people to follow, he is Jerrid Kruse.  Mr. Kruse posted an article titled "What Runs Your Classroom".  This article talked about a student who is working on an undergrad and doing clinical work in different classrooms.  This person explains his/her experience with classroom management as being an eye opening experience and how his/her view of classroom management has changed because of this experience. 
     As an inspiring administrator I find it refreshing that a young inspiring teacher is understanding that the traditional ways of classroom management are not always the best.  If a teach react to an out of hand classroom by forcing them to write or watch a video, I would agree with the article the teacher is setting students up for failure. 
      There are much more effective strategies for a teacher to use that will help keep the struggling students attention.  This is where an administrator can step in and help teachers learn some of these strategies or if a teacher does not realize they are doing using strategies that are ineffective bring it to their attention.  An administrator will be able to see some of these methods in action by doing random drop ins to classrooms, this will give the administrator and quick picture of what takes place when their presence is unannounced.