Classroom management can be one of the most challenging aspects of being a teacher. You might have one strategy that works fabulously with one student that another student is completely unresponsive to. It requires a lot of trial and error and thinking outside the box. I have always noticed that whenever my students are engaged, the need for behavioral management is typically not needed or is significantly reduced. I decided to think about lessons that tend to be less engaging, therefore bringing up more classroom management issues. I try to reduce lecture time as much as possible in my classroom, but sometimes direct instruction is necessary. When I am lecturing, I often notice some students are distracted by their phones, starting to look sluggish, and are overall not engaged in the lesson. I always worry that students are just passively writing down the information and not actually comprehending any of the information. I decided to look into Pear Deck as a solution to boring le...