Classroom Management
In class we are all together to learn! Celebrate each and every individual as an important piece in the learning process.
Success of the school year has a strong connection to how well a classroom is managed. I will be prepared by spending time planning, organizing, creating class procedures and rules that will help through-out the school year. Harry Wong's book "The First Days of School" assists teachers in preparing for the start of the school year and beyond. Here is a check list of Harry Wong To-Do the summer before school, in the first day and through-out the year.
Scholastic has a wonderful Classroom set-up tool which assists in visualizing your room, saving space, and creating atmosphere.
Link to "the Really Best List of Classroom Management" this site is a little hard to navigate around but has wonderful tips and resources on everything to just getting started into work routines, to prevention of bullying.
Here is a valuable resource for teaching and establishing procedures in differentiated classrooms. Further information and resources can be found on Carole Tomlinson's website, a guru on differentiated classrooms.
Discipline issues can be curbed before they even begin with well known and practiced class rules and procedures. I agree with nearly all the techniques used for smoothing out bumps in the road to learning that are described in this article called "The Law of Least Intervention" by Adam Waxler.
Classroom Management links from King William County Public School with excellent links and resources.