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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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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? This was such a treat for him!

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

ED Surge

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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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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A System for Meeting Absent Students’ Needs (and Everyone Else’s Too)

Cult of Pedagogy

You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. Come back for more. Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun.

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Have you seen “What Works” for your schools? Amplify success with a video library of teaching

Edthena

Or classroom management. Or even teaching fractions in a late-elementary classroom. New toolsets from Edthena allow any district to curate a video library of searchable lesson segments, tagged to teaching standards, and shared securely to all staff members within the district. Classroom videos featuring your own teachers.

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How Semantic Pulse Surveys Can Boost Your School Climate

Cult of Pedagogy

When the surveys are complete, school leaders get a simple report with insights on how their staff is feeling that month, along with suggested action steps and selections from Alpaca’s excellent library of resources for supporting teachers. Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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