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.
First Six Weeks of School
A guide to laying the groundwork for successful learning within the first few weeks of the school year.
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.
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.
Transitions in the Classroom
Tips for managing classroom transitions, including looking at predictability, boundaries, and flexibility in time use.
simSchool – The Game of Teaching
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Connecting with Students
Allen N. Mendler shows how to provide acknowledgement without disruption.
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.
Using Functional Assessment to Promote Desirable Student Behavior in Schools
Whether aggressive or merely
annoying, challenging behavior attracts
the attention of the teacher and other
students, thus interrupting the focus on
learning. This article presents a rationale
for using the functional behavioral
assessment (FBA) approach to problem solving.
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.
Classroom Organization
Here are some simple guidelines to help you make your classroom teacher, learner, and community friendly.
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.
Expectations and Student Outcomes
A research report from the Northwest Regional Laboratory supporting high expectations for students in the classroom.
Learning to Discipline by M. Metzger
At the start of her teaching career, Ms. Metzger confesses, she ricocheted between being a drill sergeant and Mary Poppins.
Rules vs. Expectations
Setting positive expectations for standards of behavior in a classroom are more effective than enforcing rules. Dr.
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.
Setting Up Your Classroom
Classroom setup can dramatically affect students' attitudes toward and habits of learning. Students need an environment that is organized, stimulating, and comfortable in order to learn effectively.
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.
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.
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.
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