Classroom Management
Growth Mindset as Classroom Culture
5 Videos to Explore Growth Mindset
from Edutopia
Your Classroom Culture & Students' Mindset
Get to know your students!
Helping Students Cope with a Difficult Year
What to think about as you move into the physical classroom.
A 4 Part System for Getting to Know your Students
Build a Culture of Respect from Chalkbeat
Make Learning Relevant by Getting to Know your Students
5 Key Beliefs: The Source of Abbe's Superpowers
What truly engages students!
Resources on Engaging Student Voices
A compiled list of articles on the wide variety of methods to give students a voice in their learning.
Growth Mindset Resources
Links, videos for promoting a growth mindset with students
Social Emotional Learning
One and All Strategies to protect students, reject bullying, and build communities where all thrive
Teaching Self-Regulation in the Early Grades
A 60-Second Strategy: Appreciation, Apology or Aha A routine for the end of the day to help solidify your classroom culture
How Can I Plan for Good Behavior?
...classroom management is not about managing 'bad' kids, but about recognizing why kids behave in certain ways and giving them tools to be their best selves. -Cassetta and Sawyer
The 5 Second Solution...the magic of WAIT TIME!
How Novice and Expert Teachers approach Classroom Management Differently
Via Edutopia
Smart Classroom Management
Website has a number of great recommendations for how to be a strong leader in your classroom which sets the stage for a joyful classroom.
Interactive Modeling
From The Responsive Classroom, a "seven-step process that’s effective for teaching children any academic or social skill, routine, or procedure that you want them to do in a specific way..."
7 Tips for Limiting Problem Behaviors in your Class
Why Do We Ask Kids to Sit and Learn When We Know the Research Says... (online interview)
Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Management Tips & More Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Management Tips
Managing Behavior During a Lesson
Get Their Attention
Whichever method you want to try, train students first (see video), then once they have it down, use it during your lesson. Use wait time if not all are responding.
30 Techniques to quiet a Noisy Class via Edutopia
15 Creative and Respectful Ways to Quiet a Class
Stay Calm and Teach On
Wonderful advice for dealing with classroom management, your own demeanor and behavior problems!
Teacher Toolkit Classroom Management Tools
Search "Classroom Management" at this link... Videos with different strategies & grade levels for topics like attention signals, routines and reward systems ideas.
Engaging Students With Attention Challenges
Plan your Transitions
Teaching Transitions
"My observations told me I couldn’t assume students knew how to best use the time between the warning and the beginning of cleanup. So I set up a table as if I were in the middle of a project and role-played what I might do after hearing I had five minutes before cleanup..."
5 Ways to Create Efficient Transitions
"First of all, plan and teach the procedures used during the transition. To do this most effectively, you’ll need to envision the students going through the transition."
Making Transitions Work for Students and Teachers
"Sometimes, you may want to suggest transition activities that address the particular needs of the moment."
7 Systems that Work for Outside-the-Box Learners
These are fantastic organization ideas for all students, but they especially help your disorganized kiddos.
Brain Break Ideas
Swortkids App, free, iOS and Android, here's an explanation.
20 Three Minute Brain Breaks See video on left.
Energy and Calm: Brain Breaks and Focused-Attention Practices
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More Classroom Management Resources
This School Replaced Detention with Meditation
Repairing Harm: A Better Alternative to Punishment
How to Tackle Tattling in the Classroom
Maximizing the Power of the Middle School Brain
...if you have 2nd semester 5th graders, they are right at the cusp of middle school.
When Behavior Charts don’t Work, Throw them Out
Engagement Strategies that Just Don't Work
Resetting Classroom Management
Notebooks for Classroom Management part 1 (for when you feel your class is out of control)
Social Emotional Learning
A De-Escalation Exercise for Upset Students
Resources for Responding to Trauma and Tragedy
Responding with Care to Students Facing Trauma
Reaching Students with Emotional Disturbances
For Teens Knee Deep in Negativity, Reframing Thoughts Can Help
Not only for teens! If you're not sure if a student is being lazy or is having problems understanding & doing the work, this is a place to start.