Classroom Management
Featured Tips
Every teacher has to find the strategies for classroom management that works best for them. However, most experts agree on the following:
- Teachers must be consistent in their message and consequences
- Lay a strong foundation of your behavior expectations early in the school year
- Follow through with promised discipline when students don't follow the rules
- Remain dispassionate and unflappable
- Every day is a new day - give students a chance to start over
Featured Web Sites
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support
A website established by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education that offers extensive resources on established school-wide systems of positive behavior supports. Included throughout the website are suggestions on promoting positive student behaviors in the classroom.
You Can Handle Them All: A Reference for Handling Over 117 Misbehaviors at School and Home
This website describes individual behaviors; identifies the effect of the behavior on others; discusses what individual student needs are indicated by the behavior; and offers suggestions for action to deal with the behavior.
This website describes individual behaviors; identifies the effect of the behavior on others; discusses what individual student needs are indicated by the behavior; and offers suggestions for action to deal with the behavior.
National Education Association: Classroom Management
A variety of basic suggestions from teachers for effective classroom management
A variety of basic suggestions from teachers for effective classroom management
The archives of Education Leadership provides some excellent articles on classroom management. Check out the October 2012 issue on Students Who Challenge Us, the September 2008 issue on The Positive Classroom and the September 2003 edition for an article written by Robert Marzano and Jana Marzano.