I successfully completed my first day of teaching yesterday. I nearly bvlew out my voice yelling. I have two classes--one is fine but I have two "trouble-makers" in the other. They are the reason that I almost lost my voice. The problem is that you have to set the tone of the class the first week and particularly the first day, thus my yelling and attempts to give the impression that I am a hard-ass. I don't know if it will work, but its worth a try. All the education books say that this is the best method, so hopefully I will succeed. If it doesn't work I am going to hit the first kid that makes me really mad and use him as an example.