Category Archives: Classroom Management Resources
Kindergarten Students Need Love Too…
It struck me today that an inordinate percentage of visitors to this site are here for tips on Kindergarten behavior plans and so I started wondering what it was about kindergarten that sent teachers searching for information. The Typical Kindergarten Student Kindergarten … Continue reading
Homework Assignment: Student Reflection
Here’s your homework assignment for tonight: Sit down with a paper and pen or pencil and write down the names of all of your students. By this time, it should be easy (if you’re like me and you’re still struggling … Continue reading
How Class Sizes Don’t Impact Your Students
With teachers headed back to school, final numbers are starting to come in. While some teachers are reporting classes at the elementary level as low as 18 -22 students, these teachers are in the minority. Most teachers are seeing 25, … Continue reading
Ten Last Minute Classroom Management Tips
Make all your class rules clear and visible Demonstrate/role play how to follow the rules and classroom procedures Remember to use positive discipline (rewards) whenever possible, but have consequences planned and ready for those students who simply will not respond … Continue reading
3 Ways to Beat the Summer Heat
Classroom management doesn’t end during the summer. Camp counselors and summer school teachers often find themselves in need of new classroom management ideas. Student behavior is often relevant to the summer heat in that hot children tire fast and tired children are often cranky … Continue reading
How to Handle Racist Comments in the Classroom
Racist comments in the classroom should always be taken seriously. If a student confides in his or her teacher that another student said something racist that was hurtful, the teacher needs to take action and not allow this to slide. … Continue reading
Pre-K/Kindergarten Behavior Tool
While some children will respond to losing privileges and to warnings, many receive far too little praise for good behavior. Instead of drawing more attention to unwanted behavior in the early years of preschool and Kindergarten, consider a punch card behavior … Continue reading
Establishing Classroom Management as a Tutor
When working as a tutor, classroom management and student discipline is a very different beast as one reader pointed out. There is no principal to sent the student to, parents are not always helpful and the child may not take … Continue reading
How to Manage Students who Lie at School
What to do with a student who continues tell a lie in class no matter the consequences? This is a difficult situation, and one that every teacher faces at some point in time. Often the students who habitually tell lies … Continue reading
Classroom Management Grows With You
In talking recently with a third year teacher, I found a nugget of encouragement I wanted to share with all of you. He was explaining how his classroom management has grown even without him realized it, as he repeated an … Continue reading
