Whether you are entering the profession, navigating your early years, or bringing decades of experience to the classroom, Teacher Matters’ self‑discovery analysis tools are designed to support your ongoing growth as an educator. These tools provide a structured way to explore your teaching identity, examine your classroom management tendencies, and reflect on how you respond to common behavioural challenges.
By selecting one of the options below, you’ll gain deeper insight into your preferred approaches to addressing everyday classroom situations. Teacher Matters’ thoughtfully developed tools offer a meaningful opportunity to better understand your practice and strengthen your effectiveness in creating positive, well‑managed learning environments.
Behavior Goals
Teachers need to constantly remind themselves that they are the targets of disturbing classroom behavior. This analysis tool focuses on matching a behavior with the form of power goal, and on students’ misbehavior.
False Assumptions
Perceptions about the underlying cause of behavioral problems are mostly based on false assumptions. This quiz contains some examples where false assumptions may be made.
Behavioral Consequences
Few would argue that a major task confronting our schools is to induce individuals to behave responsibly and to demonstrate a degree of self control. This analysis tool focuses on the differences between punishment and behavioral consequences and asks you to make a choice whether you think the teacher used logical consequences (LC), natural consequences (NC), or punishment(P).
Praise Versus Encouragement
The words and actions of teachers can act as encouragement when the focus is on the learner and the process of learning, or they can act as praise when the focus of teacher attention is on the product or outcome of learning. This analysis tool focuses on a number of statements that asks you to make a choice on what you think the statement is. Is it encouragement or is it praise?