''Maintaining Classroom Discipline'' is a 1947 short film by

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, giving teaching advice to trainee teachers over how to manage secondary school students. The film is 13 minutes long. In the 2000s academics at

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in the United Kingdom placed the film on the Behaviour4Learning website; by February 2009 it had a view count that exceeded 3,000, and was described by Kerra Madern of ''

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'' as "consistently the most popular resource on the website." In 2009 Donald MacLeod of ''

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'' wrote that among British primary and secondary school instructors, the film became "has taken off".

Reception

Richard H. Williams, of the

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, stated in a 1953 journal article that the film "performs an adequate function in displaying good classroom management procedures." - Cited: p. 211.

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