classroom management

Describes a variety of literature, games, activities, and songs that teachers can use to help create a caring, inclusive community atmosphere in their classrooms.

Presents a program of independent activities that may be used to keep students involved for ninety-to-120 minute periods, allowing teachers time to work with small groups; explaining how to set up, manage, and assess a literacy workshop, and describing thirty literacy centers.

Offers advice to help teachers use careful planning and specific strategies to generate high levels of attention and engagement in the classroom, explaining how teachers can incorporate movement, build positive relationships with students, connect lessons to their lives, and encourage them to apply knowledge.

Presents tips and tools for high school teachers to help them control their classes, with help on topics such as motivation, promotion of self-discipline, time management in class, parental involvement, and specific infractions including bullying, vandalism, and profanity.

Explains how teachers can use solutioning strategies to solve difficult classroom management problems, with practical suggestions for expanding teaching abilities using positive language to get positive results.

Contains more than 120 different techniques that teachers can use to control and avoid problems in the classroom, including activities that can stop students from fighting, keep a hyperactive child calm, reward a student for good work, and discipline a child without embarrassing them.

Describes specific strategies for motivating students from elementary through high school, grouped in the areas of instruction, evaluation and recognition, and academic and behavioral expectations, and includes advice on how to inspire hard-to-reach students.

Explains ways for teachers to incorporate executive functions into the classroom, discussing curriculum planning, organizing, prioritizing, and self-checking, and describing teaching tools and techniques, activities and suggestions for the whole classroom, and tips for differentiated instruction. Includes reproducible materials.

Provides guidance for finding effective materials, structured projects, and reproducible lesson ideas to explore alternative teaching.