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When Your Classroom Management Goes Off the Rails

Cult of Pedagogy

Little by little, the kids got noisier and more distracted, the classroom started to get chaotic, you found yourself yelling more, running out of time for planned activities, and generally feeling completely run down. It can happen to the best of us classroom management deteriorating over time. Be the calm presence.

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Overcoming Language Learning Barriers With Classroom Management Tools

TeachThought

Use Classroom Management Platforms and Other Tools to Overcome Barriers in Learning a Language contributed by Al Kingsley, CEO of NetSupport Teaching a language, whether for ESL students or those learning something new like French or Spanish requires largely the same teaching skills as any other subject. Challenge No.

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5 Activities for Early Finishers in Social Studies Class

Thrive in Grade Five

Ummm, no, that’s just asking for classroom management nightmares. If students leaving to go to the library or logging into computers drives you nuts, just have books or printouts already available for them. What should you do with them? Let them hang out and talk?

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What Constitutes Good Instruction?

A Principal's Reflections

The feedback a teacher receives really depends on the training a particular administrator has received, District vision, and what books or research have been read. Tied to this are classroom management techniques that afford all students the opportunity to learn. In general, the observation process is quite arbitrary.

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A Needed Revolution

A Principal's Reflections

Josh’s book outlines and discusses five key areas that teacher’s should focus their energy on if they want to see change and start this revolution. Classroom Management - Simply put, teachers cannot force a child to do anything they do not want to do.

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Some Thoughts on Teachers Crying in the Classroom

Cult of Pedagogy

I was in a new seventh grade language arts position, one I’d started in January after a teacher retired mid-year, so I hadn’t had enough time yet to build the relationships that are the foundation of my approach to classroom management. The answer to this question is complicated, and not everyone agrees on it.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

I was more of a periodical girl, with the magazines and the newspapers and an occasional novel or self-help book. I was hired and became a school librarian but I thought I wanted to make a bigger impact by becoming a classroom teacher. So research skills, those foundational skills, are a part of it, and that involves parts of a book.

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