Education - Classroom Management

Cultivate a thriving classroom and reignite a love of teaching. Gain effective strategies to understand student behavioral patterns in relation to brain development. With thoughtful suggestions on how to implement and adapt proposed strategies as needed, K-12 teachers will create and manage a classroom...

Loose parts cross the boundaries of gender, age, abilities, and socioeconomic challenges. Loose Parts 3, the newest addition to the wildly popular Loose Parts series, helps teachers make a conscious effort to create culturally sustainable environments that allow children to grow and to conquer...

Play is a magnificent activity that sustains life and promotes joy and hopefulness. Loose Parts for Children with Diverse Abilities addresses the importance of play while providing appropriate accommodation to support young children with diverse abilities. Award-winning author and educator Miriam Beloglovsky advocates for...

Making Things Right is designed to be used in several ways:1. To train students to become mediators and peacemakers in their classroom and at home and as peer mediators for their school.2. To train students to understand and participate in a restorative justice/discipline structure...

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than...

About Management in the Active ClassroomA well-managed classroom almost runs itself. Students are focused and respectful, whether they are silent at their desks or active throughout the classroom-collaborating, experimenting, discovering, and creating. This book is a guide for teachers who want their classrooms to...

Minimize problem behavior and maximize student success! Acting-out behavior by students manifests in ways that make classroom management and teaching very challenging. Building on a model using seven phasAuthor: Geoffrey T. Colvin,Terrance M. ScottPublisher: Corwin PublishersPublished: 12/15/2014Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.80h x 6.90w...

The goals of restorative practices are twofold: 1) build and maintain relationships and 2) repair relationships that have been harmed. Restorative practices are helpful for Creating a respectful classroom. Developing rapport with students. Managing conflicts. Establishing routines and expectations for positive student behavior. This...

Help students meet the math standards with 25 skill-building card games and activities! Games motivate kids to play again and again, helping them develop automaticity in computation. Covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, decimals, averages, coordinate geometry, and more. Includes easy step-by-step directions and reproducible...

A complete guide for improving the focus and engagement of your special education students by starting the day off right Use a morning meeting to jump-start your students' day! This simple but effective classroom technique has been proven to help students learn better, build...

In the second edition of this valuable resource, Allen Mendler offers both time-tested and newly developed strategies for how to reignite enthusiasm in even the most unmotivated students. Educators gain fresh ideas on how to integrate social-emotional development into daily classroom instruction, use technology...

Teach children how to manage their thoughts and words without interrupting.The perfect companion to Julia Cook's My Mouth Is A Volcano! picture book.This supplementary teacher's guide will further help you teach your students how to manage their rambunctious thoughts and words. Through discussion questions...

What Every New Teacher Really Needs to KnowVeteran teacher Shannon Hazel shares the lessons she learned from more than two decades in the classroom to help prepare new teachers for the realities of a career in education. If you're new to teaching and want...

With this book, educators will recognize that it doesn't take better or different curriculum, more staff, or more dollars to bring about amazing and sustained transformations in classrooms and schools. Instilling inner wealth in students takes only a few minutes of intervention each school...

Create and sustain a learning environment where students thrive and stakeholders are accurately informed of student progress. Clarify the purpose of grades, craft a vision statement aligned with this purpose, and discover research-based strategies to implement effective grading and reporting practices. Identify policies and...

Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, this instructional guide provides explicit steps, examples, and adaptations to help educators effectively teach students how to actively process content in groups.Author: Deana SennPublisher: Learning Sciences InternationalPublished: 06/24/2015Pages: 124Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.80h x...

Help students become confident, fluent readers using poetry. Compiled by a reading specialist, this book includes 50 engaging poems specially selected for building different aspects of oral reading fluency: poems to build intonation and phrasing, poems to build phonics patterns and sight words, and...

The perfect companion to Julia Cook's Personal Space Camp picture book.This supplementary teacher's guide will further help you teach your students how to recognize and respect the personal space zones of others. Through interactive discussion questions and exercises, you'll be able to teach children...

Take back the classroom and make a positive difference in your students' lives. Many teachers today are facing problems and discipline issues they never dreamed of when they decided to become teachers. Combine violence, behavioral disorders, and downright defiant attitudes from students with the...

Do you dream about increased student engagement and more effective classroom management? How about reducing teacher stress and overwhelm? Or leaving campus at a reasonable hour without dragging a cart full of lesson planning and papers to grade in tow?If the answer to these...