Have a chatty class? Do your talkative students get louder and louder during small groups until it feels like chaos? Do they talk when you'r...
If you have an extra-chatty class, check out this post with tips for how to get your students to stop talking in just one week!
Attention Getters will cut out your classroom chaos and work for all grade levels. Attention getters in the classroom are the perfect solution if you are...
Have you ever had a class that just tried your patience day after day? Have you ever felt like you could walk away from teaching forever tom...
Tips for Classroom management! Behavior is the most important aspect of a strong classroom. Learn how to get control of your new class- even the tough ones!
When trouble is abound in your Preschool or Kindergarten classroom, Sandi is here to save the day! Sandi is an incredible, seasoned, and passionate Kindergarten teacher here to solve your preschool classroom management woes once and for all! Here are Sandi's 7 tips for making sure your Preschool classroom is running smooth and peaceful. Preschool
If you work with children, I can promise you that you will come across at least one student that has these difficult behaviors. Not only are they really stressful for the teacher but they impact the student’s life in many ways. Behaviors like disrespect and defiance can make classroom's chaotic.
Stop taking away recess and using other punishments to control your students. Find success with 10 powerful classroom management strategies!
You’ve probably tried all the commonly recommended ways to quiet a chatty class, only to be left frustrated by the lack of results. If you’re anything like me, you’ve tried everyt…
These call and response attention grabbing posters are a fun way to handle classroom management in your classroom. These posters are a reference for students, teachers, and substitutes for how to quickly get the classes attention. The pictures allow younger students to remember and learn the call and response saying. They also allow them a visual choice as to which attention grabber is used during the day. (You could make choosing an attention grabber a daily job and have the saying for the day displayed on the board!) Product Includes: 10 sayings in three sizes - full page, 5"x7" and 4.5x3.5".
Learn how to manage one of the biggest challenges of teaching: Six disrespectful students in the same class. Yikes!
Using positive classroom management is important in establishing a safe environment in which students can learn, collaborate, and create.
Does hallway behavior disrupt your classroom learing time? Use these hacks to keep your primary students well behaved and ready to learn.
This pack of 5+ 'Behaviour Bingo' Game Boards are a fantastic, engaging strategy for whole-class behaviour management. Instructions: Students can earn a designated number of stars as a whole-class throughout the day When the class are showing the expected classroom behaviours, they can earn a star At the end of the day, a special student may select popsticks (labelled 1 to 100) from a jar/cup, depending on how many stars the class earned throughout the day. For example, if the students earned three stars, they may select three popsticks The selected numbers are then crossed off the Bingo Board using a whiteboard marker The aim of ‘Behaviour Bingo’ is to fill a complete row of ten. Once achieved, students may receive their reward! If you like this resource, please check out my other resources below: Editable Literacy Review Slides for Daily Reviews Heart Words Write & Wipe Activity + Word Wall & Lettering for Bulletin Board Connect 4 Phonics Game Board: Alternative Spellings Connect 4 Phonics Game: EDITABLE Version! Editable & Interactive Phonics Bingo for Use with ANY Word List! Our Class is a Family Writing, Craft & Bulletin Board Pack
Today I wanted to share some ideas for students who need frequent reminds to stay on task, complete their work, and use safe hands and feet. During my first few […]
Using positive classroom management is important in establishing a safe environment in which students can learn, collaborate, and create.
You feel like you're doing everything right. You're friendly and consistent and your students know what is expected of them. And yet, you still struggle.
Individual behavior management with individual bingo boards to help students reach behavior goals in a fun and effective way.
Some school years we have classes that are chattier than average. Although notably more exhausting, I always find these years to be the most enjoyable because chatty students are more willing to share their ideas and display their curiosity.
Just because your classroom is chaotic now doesn't mean it has to stay this way. You can have a controlled, effective classroom. And when you do you can stop stressing and start enjoying teaching.
Functional Critical Skill Key-ring Support This Visual support tool for Classroom Management has been used with our students to learn new skills such as requesting "break please", "help" and "wait" as part of my Behavior Management strategies. There are handy visuals on them for your student to have questions they need answered and things they may need to help. Some cards have blank spaces for you to add your own visuals to support individual needs. ************************************************************ Included:- 2 help cards with visuals 2 help cards with spaces for visuals 2 wait cards with visuals 2 wait cards with spaces for visuals 2 stop cards with visuals 2 stop cards with spaces for visuals 2 break cards with visuals 2 break cards with spaces for visuals 2 A4 pages of extra visuals NEW CUTE KEYRING SUPPORTS ADDED 2 X "HELP" "BREAK" "WAIT" "STOP" ************************************************************ The Picture Communication Symbols ©1981–2015 by Mayer-Johnson LLC a Tobii Dynavox company. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Used with permission. Boardmaker® is a trademark of Mayer-Johnson LLC.
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With over 500,000 page views, How To Handle Disrespectful Students is one of the most popular articles on this website—and for good reason. A disrespectful student can get under a teacher’s skin like almost nothing else. When confronted with disrespect, it’s easy to take ... Read more
Whole class rewards are perfect to encourage classroom culture and a team approach to learning! I have the perfect (and super easy) printable to be used as a whole class reward system... STAR JAR!
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Spring is here and we all have spring fever! Energy levels are higher. Students seem restless. Behaviors that have never been seen before appear. And your once quiet class becomes chatty. Every year I remind myself that this is normal. And to be expected… But that doesn’t mean we can’t remedy the situation. In this ... Read More about 10 Effective Strategies for a Chatty Class
Encourage positive behavior, time management, and student engagement with these items to add to your classroom management toolkit for back to school.
"My class won't stop talking. How can I get them to be quiet?" Even experienced teachers make three mistakes that result in an unruly, disrespectful class. Find out what these mistakes are and what you can do to get your class to be quiet in this post!
Best classroom management tool ever! This free Behavior Reflections graphic organizer from Laura Candler is a great way to teach kids to accept responsibility for their choices.
What they don't teach us in education courses is just how freaking much students talk, and how hard it can be to quiet them down. Help is on the way.
Got a talkative class? Check out these 5 ways to quiet the chatter!
Effective classroom management is the key to success in any elementary classroom. These teacher-tested phrases will help to give your classroom management!
A behavior notebook is a whole-class management technique for recording classroom misbehavior that integrates student reflection & ...
Simple strategies to monitor and manage classroom behaviors and turn your classroom management style into a positive learning environment.
Classroom Management: Using a WOW Board No comments Classroom Management, student recognition, WOW board Have you heard of the WOW board? This tool is not a brand new idea, but I only started using it last year. And, I intend to keep using it! Using a WOW board is a great (and super easy) way to recognize individual students and reward their choices, achievements, and efforts. It is also a great way to boost self-esteem too. What is it? The board is simply a table that is printed onto poster sized paper. The table is labeled with letters along the bottom, and numbers along the side, creating cells. It is laminated so it can be used again and again. I printed my board using the standard poster size setting on our poster maker. I know that some schools may not have a poster maker, but there is no rule that says your WOW board has to be poster sized! How do you use it? When you see a student making a smart choice, setting a good example, making gains, or whatever you feel should be recognized, they add their name to the board. They can choose any space they want and write their name in the selected space. Many WOW boards have 100 spaces, but I like for it to fill up quickly, so my board has only 25 spaces. Since I use other means of recognizing students, like reward tags, I didn't want a board with 100 spaces. Since the board is laminated, students can use an Expo Vis-a-Vis marker to add their name. This makes it easy to erase and start over when we're ready to do so. What do you do when the board is full? When the board is full of students' names, I choose 5 students to receive a "prize." Really, they get to choose a classroom reward coupon. Prize buckets and I don't get along (#clutter). The classroom rewards cost me nothing and the kids love them. You can find all sorts of classroom reward options on TPT. Then, I erase the board and we start filling it up again and the cycle repeats. How do you choose the winners? I usually just pick five random cells and write them on a sticky note, without looking to see whose names are in those cells. For example, I might write down A3, C4, B5, D2, E1. I call out the cell number and identify the name of the student written in that cell. They're a winner! You could write all your cells (i.e. A1, A2, A3, etc.) on color tiles, small slips of paper, or anything else you can fit into a small bucket. Then, when it is time to choose your winners, you just pull a tile, slip of paper, etc. out of the bucket and match it to the name in that space on your board. Using a Wow board is just another way to recognize your students and motivate them to do their best. If you'd like to give it a try, you can download my free template. If your school doesn't have a poster maker, don't dismiss the idea of using a WOW board. You could easily print this on regular paper and just use a smaller sized version. The kids will still love it! DON'T FORGET IT, PIN IT! Share It:
Dealing with disruptive behaviors in the classroom is one of the most challenging tasks that teachers face. These behaviors can be caused by a variety of factors, including students’ personality traits, learning difficulties, or even external factors outside of the classroom. Regardless of the cause, these behaviors can disrupt the learning environment and hinder the progress of both the disruptive student and their classmates.
Unwanted talking is near the top of the list of teacher frustrations. In this article, learn the actual strategies to finally get rid of it for good.
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If you struggle with classroom management no matter how many different strategies you try, there's a chance you're doing something to get in your own way.
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Using positive classroom management is important in establishing a safe environment in which students can learn, collaborate, and create.
