You’ve heard it before and I’m going to say it again: success with classroom management can essentially be boiled down to your relationship with your students. If you have a good relationship, so they say, you’ll succeed in the classroom. If you’re not able to build a solid relationship with the students, then you’ll haveContinue reading “Classroom Management Strategies: Build Relationships”
Category Archives: Classroom Management
Classroom Management Strategies: How to Win Over the Bad Kid
If I ask you to think of one student who causes the most classroom management headaches for you, does a face come to mind? I’ve had several, usually one or a even handful per year. I can still remember back to the first kid I had like this in my first year of teaching, I’mContinue reading “Classroom Management Strategies: How to Win Over the Bad Kid”
Classroom Management Strategies: Praise Publicly, Criticize Privately
Upon reading the title of this blog post, I’m sure your first thought was “Duh.” It’s a relatively simple and well known concept: make your praises public and your criticisms private. I searched Google and found this advice attributed to every great thinker from around the world. So okay, we’ve heard it before. But howContinue reading “Classroom Management Strategies: Praise Publicly, Criticize Privately”
Classroom Management Strategies: Positive Framing
If you’re struggling right now with classroom management, it’s very likely that you’re also struggling with your mindset about your job or your students or both. Again, I’m going to have to be the one to come in with the unfortunate news: you’re going to have to change your attitude before you start to seeContinue reading “Classroom Management Strategies: Positive Framing”
Classroom Management Strategies: Cherish The Child
Are you thinking of quitting teaching? I was too, once. If you still have it in you to cherish the child, read this post before making your final decision.
Classroom Management Strategies: Getting A Head Start
Do yourself a favor by getting a head start on classroom management before students even enter your classroom! Read all my tips here.
Classroom Management Strategies: Positive Parent Contact
Incorporate positive parent contact into your weekly schedule and see guaranteed to positive effects in classroom management. Learn how here!
Classroom Management Strategies: Rewards for Students
Should you reward your students for good behavior? Learn the difference between a reward and a bribe, and how to reward your students with nontangibles.
Classroom Management Strategies: Consequences for Students
Get all the best tips for de-escalation techniques and how to provide consequences that really sting for students that continue to defy expectations.
Classroom Management Strategies: Enforcing Boundaries
You already know how to set your classroom expectations, but what do you do when they’re not followed? Learn the do’s and don’t’s of enforcing boundaries.