Classroom management tips:
- Basic classroom management - begin here to make disciples
- Promoting prosocial attitudes in the classroom. This coincides nicely with creating an environment that encourages discipleship and community.
- Advice for creating a smoothly running classroom.
- Some ideas for what to do in your first class (although this is pretty elaborate and might take more than our allotted schedule)
- An easy way to c ommunicate classroom routines in the first or second classes.
- Pro-active classroom management tips
- Twenty-five tips for organizing the classroom
- Five principles of outstanding classroom management
- Smart Classroom Management - Short articles with excellent tips. You can also subscribe to receive them weekly ( free).
- How to avoid a bad start to the year
- Using modeling to help students understand expectations.
- Making a routine you modeled unforgettable.
- How to make modeling succeed.
- The importance of modeling.
- How to give directions students can follow
- How to make transitions work.
- How to analyze what is going wrong with your routine/discipline strategy- and how to help it get corrected.
- How to use music to make classroom routines fun
- Keeping track of consequences
Positive discipline/coaching in the classroom:
- Setting classroom procedures at the beginning of school
- Management strategies and tips
- Positive discipline criteria - video
- Positive discipline being used - video
- Positive discipline strategies (Take a break; fix it plan; apology) - video
- Changing your thinking - and getting better results
- The inspiration you can find in the Mighty Ducks ; a flip using this video.
- Power of believing that you can improve - not 'failure' but 'not yet.'
- Helping children self-regulate. Two of these - the rhythm and singing bowl could be used in our context. Do NOT use the bath technique. It could be easily misinterpreted.
- The power of emotions in helping children self-regulate
The Digital Classroom
- Creating a community learning culture in the digital classroom
- Designing lessons that can be both online and in-person
- Fostering Social/Emotional Learning and classroom community while online
- 25 Brain Breaks - if your kids need to just burn off a few minutes of energy, these get them up and moving and then ready to sit down again. My suggestion is to have one ready to go, so that you're not scrolling through your options while they get even more antsy.
