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Classroom Management

The foundations of teaching are defined by Saphier and Gower as Attention, Momentum, Space, Time, Routines, and Discipline. This area links to articles and research that address what a teacher does to keep students engaged, involved and on tasks during class time.

• 5 Easy Transition Activities
  A free resource from the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
• Checklist of Classroom Procedures
  An excerpt from the LEARN North Carolina Beginning Teacher Handbook.
• Checklists for Getting and Maintaining Attention
  Sandra Rief, who writes extensively about ADD and ADHD, provides suggestions for getting and maintaining students' attention, focusing students' attention, and keeping students on-task during seat work.
• Classroom Strategies for Helping At-Risk Students
  This monograph offers guidance for employing six effective practices aimed at helping at-risk students: * whole class instruction * cognitively oriented instruction * small group instruction * tutoring * peer tutoring * computer-based instruction.
• Connecting with Students
  Allen N. Mendler shows how to provide acknowledgement without disruption.
• Controlling Aggressive Behavior
  Produced in conjunction with the Council for Exceptional Children, this web page consists of a series of links to useful resources. These resources include an incident report, decision making sheet, blank behavior contract, conference documentation form and more.
• Discipline in the Classroom
  Teachers provide their suggestions for dealing with the tightly woven issues of discipline, classroom management, and student motivation. Topics include basic discipline, dealing violence, the power of the telephone, tardiness to class, and consequences for negative behaviors.
• Dodging the Power-Struggle Trap: Ideas for Teachers
  Specific and concrete actions to prevent classroom conflict situations to escalate out of control.
• Everyday Rules That Work!
  A six-point plan for establishing rules and routines for classroom. Suggestions for creating rules with students, with an emphasis on rules as a way to help everyone suceed.
• Expectations and Student Outcomes
  A research report from the Northwest Regional Laboratory supporting high expectations for students in the classroom.
• First Six Weeks of School
  A guide to laying the groundwork for successful learning within the first few weeks of the school year.
• Helping Children Make Transitions Between Activities
  Provides strategies and intervention procedures for helping young children make smooth transitions from one activity to another.
• How Classroom Conversation Can Support Student Achievement
  For a fuller version of this article as well as the other feature of successful classrooms, go to http://cela.albany.edu/partnership.htm.
• How To Manage Disruptive Behavior in Inclusive Classrooms
  Ten questions to ask in diagnosing situations that foster disrupotive behaviors in students with disabilities.
• List of Procedures to Design and Teach to Students
  Classroom routines begin with teaching students how to follow procedures. What will you do when you want to get the attention of students? How will students pass in papers? This list represents a good "think about" in getting ready to begin the school year.
• Preventing Behavior Problems During Transitions and "Challenging Times" of Day
  Sandra Rief presents tips for managing transitions and changes in classroom routines. While designed primarily for students with ADHD, these tips are useful for any classroom or school setting.
• Rules in School
  Written by four classroom teachers, this book is filled with instructions and examples for creating a calm, safe learning environment.
• Rules vs. Expectations
  Setting positive expectations for standards of behavior in a classroom are more effective than enforcing rules. Dr.
• Teacher-Parent Collaboration
  Use these organizers to prepare for successful parent-teacher interactions.
• Ten Activities for Establishing Classroom Rules
  Includes to involve students in setting classroom rules. Links to related sites are also provided.
• The Basics of Behavior: Behavior Is Based on Choice
  Provides a positive approach to dealing with student behavior. Also looks at teacher styles of management and teacher responses to misbehavior as factors in influencing student behavior.
• There Is Only One First Day of School
  Harry and Rosemary Wong discuss the importance of the first day of school, and how starting positively will impact the rest of the school year. There are seven things that students want and need to know within the first few weeks of school, and students can suceed when they are shown the procedures for doing them.
• Thirteen Ways to Beat the First Day Jitters
  An excerpt from the LEARN North Carolina Beginning Teacher Handbook and the National Education Assiociation New Teacher CD.
• To Discipline or Not to Discipline...That Is the Question
  Seven (+) disciplinary models are described, as well as the elements of a disciplinary plan, classroom management ideas, and when to refer students to the principal.
• Transitions in the Classroom
  Tips for managing classroom transitions, including looking at predictability, boundaries, and flexibility in time use.
• What Is the Collaborative Classroom?
  A focus on collective the knowledge and thinking of the group changes the roles of students and teachers and how they interact within the classroom. This guidebook elaborates on what classroom collaboration means, and how it changes teaching and instruction.