Classroom Management Ideas
Below we have a bunch of suggestions to help with Classroom Management. Bad behavior, listening skills, crying and more. Please be sure to contact us if you have ideas that would help others!
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Crying Students Grades Primary
Have children who cry for their parents everyday at the beginning of the school year ask them to bring in a photo of Mommy and Daddy or their family and let them leave it on their desks. This one usually works for my little ones.
Submitted by: Gina Ferrell - McNeill, MS
Responsi-bills
I use an idea for encouraging responsibility for my third graders. I made some money and used them as responsi-bills. They are rewarded with bills each week. When they do not follow through with their responsibility they I take away a bill. They get to go to our classroom store each Friday and buy something if they have any money. The store is made up of items I have purchased and what parents send in. If you don't like to idea of taking money away then you can just award them a bill each time they do something good. Keep in mind that this way, it is time consuming. It really does help with their responsibility.
Submitted by: Cheryl Bramlett
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Classroom VIP
Here is a quick and fun way to promote positive behavior in your class.
Good Behavior Beads
I used this my first year teacher and it worked great for behavior. I let each child have a Ziploc bag in their desk. If a found someone doing something they should they got a bead. At times I would give more than one or maybe the entire class. An example is if we received a compliment for walking nicely in the hall. I would give everyone one when we returned. Then at the end of the month they should make them into necklaces. I try to use beads that go with the month or a holiday color. The kids love to see who has the most.
Submitted by: Ann House frstgradetchr@email-removed
Listening Skills Grades Any
Lessons that will help you improve your student's listening skills.
Submitted by: Jane Carlson-Pickering, M.I. Smart! Program Coordinator
Questioning Behavior
"When one of my students has a discipline problem I go into my file cabinet and take out a previously copied form. There are four questions on the form. The questions are: 1) What did I do wrong? 2) Why wasn't my action acceptable? 3) What should I have been doing instead? 4) What will I do in the future? I read the completed form over with the student to make sure all facts are correct and then mail the forms home to the parents. This system forces the students to own up to their actions. I've found that it works wonderfully in curbing behavior problems."
Submitted by: Laraine Reisner lreisner@email-removed, a fourth grade teacher in Los Angeles, California. This tip was published in the NEA's Weekly Tip Newsletter.
Student Line-Up
Strategies Grades Any Find new, creative ways to line-up your students.
Submitted by: Marion Dmdunk@email-removed
Attention Deficit Disorder
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Classroom Management
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Discipline With Dignity
This highly successful program has been used in thousands of schools all across the US, and throughout the world in developing responsibility in children, reducing aggression and violence, dealing successfully with difficult students, and giving hope to at risk children. Our site has information about our concepts, structures, products and programs.
STOP! DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE BREATHING?
Simple Techniques for Teachers and Parents to Reduce Stress and Violence offers a variety of techniques to be used as tools by teachers, students, parents, and school administrators. Unique but easy to use, STOP! can be incorporated into anyone's daily life to reduce fear, increase impulse control, delay gratification in healthy ways, improve overall health and well-being, and increase concentration.
