Mr. Halle’s Comments

Hi Luke,
This piece on classroom authority is really consistent with a lot of your other writing on the blog. You have conversational tone and style that is effective in drawing readers in.

For the purposes of this project, however, it might be beneficial to take out some of the slang language, like “dragging ass” and “hell of a” etc. This project is meant to be an academic research project, and the tone and diction is probably not appropriate.

Also, the part about showing up still intoxicated to class is not necessary. If teachers don’t know they should not show up hungover to class, they have other problems besides classroom authority.

Many of your other points are excellent pedagogical tips for teacher like owning the rules, being fair and learning names. Now the challenge is to find research to accompany this and take building classroom authority and respect to new places.
Best,
Steve Halle