Classroom Management Ideas
Effective Teacher Commands: Establishing Classroom Control
As classroom managers, teachers regularly use commands to direct students to start and stop activities. Instructors find commands to be a crucial tool for classroom management, serving as instructional signals that help students to conform to the teacher's expectations for appropriate behaviors.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/interventions/classroom/tchrcommand.php
Good Behavior Game
The Good Behavior Game is an approach to the management of classrooms behaviors that rewards children for displaying appropriate on-task behaviors during instructional times.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/interventions/classroom/gbg.php
Positive Classroom Climate: Teacher Advice
At a recent behavior-management workshop, teachers shared their best ideas for managing student behaviors in the classroom. Here are six tips that they offered.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/interventions/classroom/classclimate.php
Respectful Classroom
This intervention uses review of classroom behavioral expectations, daily prompts, and (optional) student self-monitoring ' spot-checks' to improve classroom behaviors.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/interventions/classroom/respclassrm.php
Smooth Classroom Traffic
This class-wide program can help to reduce noise levels and head off disruptive behaviors before they occur.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/interventions/classroom/classrmtraffic.php
Strategies to Prepare Classrooms for Substitute Teachers
This intervention (a) provides a group reward if the class as a whole behaves well and (b) provides individual consequences when a particular student misbehaves.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/interventions/classroom/subtchr.php