Effective classroom management may look different for every teacher and classroom, but the outcome should be very similar. By collaborating with your class(es) at the beginning of the year, you are giving the students a fair chance at creating rules that should be manageable for everyone to follow. Making the classroom an even playing field between the teacher and the students, I have found that students are more receptive to following the rules set by themselves and their peers. Setting these rules and boundaries early allows for students and teachers to maximize class time to focus on art. In my experience, each grade level will always require classroom management strategies, but as students get older, it becomes more about reiterating these strategies, rather than initially implementing them. In the art classroom, it is important to emphasize how to properly care for materials as well as artwork. How a classroom is ran and operated will also effect how to best manage a classroom. I have experienced choice based classrooms and regular curriculum based classrooms and both require different strategies in order to maintain a well run class for both the teacher and students. Choice based learning requires more attention to care of materials and how to stay on task, whereas a curriculum based classroom requires more listening (to demonstrations) strategies in addition to staying on task and care for materials.