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Browse by Topic: Classroom Management

How can I keep students in their seats and focused?

"I get tired of students interrupting instruction to go to the bathroom or to their locker because they 'forgot something.' How can I keep students in their seats and focused—or at least decrease the number of...
Author: Valerie Benjamin
Number of views (10886)/Comments (6)/
Topics: Classroom Management
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Moment by Moment: An Instructional Approach to Positive Behavior

Moment by Moment: An Instructional Approach to Positive Behavior

Positive student behavior develops from expectations, relationships, and direct instruction.

Although many schoolwide discipline efforts focus on systems, rules, and consequences, they often overlook effective response strategies to students' misbehavior. Without straightforward approaches to teach,...
Author: Tricia Wells
Number of views (16924)/Comments (2)/
Topics: Classroom ManagementTeaching
Tags: Discipline
Classroom Management with Voice–Movement–Task

Classroom Management with Voice–Movement–Task

Explicit expectations are a key to classroom management.

Sometimes it's the simple things that are the solution to classroom management problems. Consider the simple task of giving directions. As basic as they may be, directions are the infrastructure of a well-managed...
Author: Victoria S. Lentfer
Number of views (19181)/Comments (2)/
Topics: Classroom Management
Tags: Student Engagement
Compassionate Discipline: Dealing with Difficult Students

Compassionate Discipline: Dealing with Difficult Students

Reaching and teaching all students requires an understanding of them inside and out.

If you are tired of dealing with negative student behaviors day in and day out, you are not alone—in fact, you are firmly in the center of the average teacher's experience. Still, managing difficult student...
Author: Grace Dearborn
Number of views (115297)/Comments (4)/
Topics: Classroom ManagementTeaching
Tags: Student Motivation
Minds-On, Hands-Off Learning

Minds-On, Hands-Off Learning

Allowing students freedom within boundaries promotes dynamic learning.

Middle school students are growing and developing into actively thinking young adults. To become critical thinkers who take ownership of their work, they need guided autonomy embedded in rich learning experiences....
Author: Alicia A. Cole
Number of views (21982)/Comments (1)/
Topics: Classroom ManagementTeaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent Motivation
The Importance of Classroom Structure

The Importance of Classroom Structure

Don't let anyone fool you. Don't let anyone tell you differently. To create an "inviting, safe, inclusive, and supportive" environment for students, desks matter. I know this fact firsthand, because one day at school...
Author: Dru Tomlin
Number of views (143281)/Comments (2)/
Topics: Classroom ManagementTeaching
Tags: Seating ArrangementsNew Teachers
Developing Relationships with Difficult Students

Developing Relationships with Difficult Students

Four simple strategies can help forge a positive teacher-student relationship.

As Mary watched Ashleigh get off the bus, she knew it was going to be “that kind” of day. Ashleigh was mad and yelling in the faces of the other children. Mary watched her push her way through the hallway,...
Author: Lori Rakes & Audra Parker
Number of views (72058)/Comments (4)/
Topics: Classroom ManagementTeaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent MotivationHumor In the Classroom

The Battle over Student Engagement

I can’t claim to be a major history buff, nor can I recite all of the major battles of the European Campaign in World War II. But I have learned one important lesson from war movies such as Saving Private Ryan...
Author: Jack Berckemeyer
Number of views (33147)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Classroom ManagementInspirationMiddle School ConceptTeaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent MotivationHumor In the ClassroomJack Berckemeyer

Simple Activities for Exemplary Learning

Creating classrooms that are developmentally responsive, challenging, empowering, and equitable can be tricky considering most classrooms serve students with a wide range of abilities, from learning disabled to gifted...
Author: Nancy Ruppert
Number of views (11625)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Classroom ManagementTeaching
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School-wide Agreement at Columbus Middle School

School-wide Agreement at Columbus Middle School

Sights and Sounds of Middle Level winner

Columbus (WI) Middle School students spent the first day of school with their homeroom teachers working to establish procedures getting to know one another. The most important part of the day, however, was...
Author: Paul Kurch, principal
Number of views (36944)/Comments (2)/
Topics: Classroom ManagementSchool Culture/Climate
Tags: Student Engagement
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