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Browse by Topic: Classroom Management
Restorative Practices
The new 3 Rs—respect, responsibility, and relationships.
What does discipline look like in your classroom? In your school? How do those who have been harmed have a voice in the discipline process? How do students with repeated behavioral issues get support? What Is...
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Brandie Oliver
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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...
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Valerie Benjamin
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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,...
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Tricia Wells
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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...
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Victoria S. Lentfer
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Classroom Management
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Student Engagement
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...
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Grace Dearborn
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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....
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Alicia A. Cole
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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...
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Dru Tomlin
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Seating Arrangements
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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,...
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Lori Rakes & Audra Parker
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Humor 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 (37022)
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Humor In the Classroom
Jack 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...
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Nancy Ruppert
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