The teaching profession is currently being confronted with a range of transformations which evoke specific areas of tension and problems in teaching and learning processes. Based on considerations of the handling of classroom disruption, a specific time-out measure is discussed, which intends to reduce the subjective and interactive character of classroom disruption by a clear spacial and conceptual measure. The contribution discusses three conflicting topics, which might be constitutional for pedagogical professionalism in the context of transformations. These are the parallelism of pedagogical processes, the antinomy of regular pedagogical instruments as well as externaland self-monitoring.