Is Fun Allowed?

“Start out strict and relax over time” was probably drilled into your head during your teacher training. Experienced teachers know that relaxing later is easier than reestablishing discipline, but does that mean you have to be all rules and no fun? Not according to Kriete (2003), who identified fun as a universal human need. She suggested that when fun is not constructively built into classroom practices, students resort to inappropriate ways to have fun.