Reddit reviews Quality School

Read William Glasser's classic educational book The Quality School. There's no such thing as a bad kid and there's no such thing as a lazy/unmotivated kid. All children are motivated by something, just often not in the direction we desire them to be motivated. The key to good teaching is to hone in on what motivates them - that which is 'needs satisfying' to them - and work from there. A lot of it has to do with control - most students need a modicum of control in the classroom to be motivated by the activities put forth - their needs satisfied by such control.

If you click on that Amazon link above, you can read the first few pages of the book, which in and of themselves are very helpful.

Also, watch School of Rock with Jack Black and see an entertaining and extreme example of a teacher discovering this process on his own. For students to succeed, they must feel the work in important to them - in their own lives. Without that component the best you can hope for is a quiet classroom enforced by rigid authority. Get the kids to internalize that what is occurring is important to them as individuals and your discipline problems will disappear. But to 'get there' you must first start with discovering what is important to them. You probably need to do a time out from the curriculum and do a couple days of group discussion, bringing out what will be seen as important to them as individuals and the group as a whole, and settling on some norms based upon that discussion.

If you are praying about it - pray to know what is important to your students and ask for guidance as to how you can channel that which is important to them into your lessons.