Classroom management tips:
- Basic classroom management - begin here to make disciples
- 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
