The challenges of managing behaviour in the chemistry lab

Classroom and behaviour management are some of the most difficult aspects of teaching. Our students are individuals and have free will; they are teenagers trying to navigate their way in the world. This is the same for every teacher no matter what subject they teach, but the chemistry learning environment can be especially challenging. Here, teacher fellow Kristy Turner opens up her classroom to share some of the more humorous and challenging aspects of managing behaviour in a chemistry lab – with all its trinkets, chemicals and other distractors.