-The Really Best List of Classroom Management Resources This site contains a list of many resources and web sites on successful classroom management.
-Starting the Morning Right How do you kick off the morning? Across the board, many of the methods are similar. Board work is a popular way to get students focused as they take their seats, and relaxing music is also popular. Web site gives many, many ideas for getting students started off each day, each class with an educational activity.
-Task Management Classroom management ideas that assist teachers in keeping students busy and on task with assignments. Fun assignments.
-Incorporating Technology Technology tips for teachers. This site includes PowerPoint slide shows and handouts from Tammy's sessions. Interactive databases you can use, including a Busy Teachers Recipe database. Software and resource books developed by the creator of this web site.
-Classroom Management Plan Includes classroom management principles to manage classroom and prevent discipline problems.
-Classroom Management Profile What is your classroom management profile? Teachers take classroom management style profile to find out how they manage their classrooms. Helps in changing ways to manage classrooms and hints for ways to improve.
-Discipline Help Before you can try to change a student behavior, you must properly identify that behavior. The identification must be specific; for example, the talker, the cheater, the bully. Therefore, in the first step, you must specifically identify the behavior based on its characteristics.
-Responsible Learning How leaders, teachers, and parents promote responsibility & learning.
-Behavior Management Management of student behavior is a major concern of teachers and para-educators because of its importance in establishing a positive learning environment. Creating the opportunity to learn and develop both academic and behavioral skills is essential to an effective classroom
Career and Technical Student Organizations are a vital part of teaching accountability and responsibility. Students gain self-discipline and grow in knowledge as they participate in the many projects and activities offered in each organization.
-DECA Distributive Education Clubs of America
-FBLA Future Business Leaders of America
-FCCLA Family, Career and Community Leaders of America
-FFA Future Farmers of America
-HOSA Health Occupations Student Association
-TSA Technology Student Association
-Skills USA-VICA
Other References:
One-Minute Discipline: Classroom Management Strategies That Work!, Arnie Bianco, Jossey-Bass (a Wiley Company) Publishing Company, www.josseybass.com, (or from Amazon.com).
Excellent source of activities and ideas on effective classroom management. Topics include Philosophy of Classroom Management, Know Your "Clients", Home and School, The First Week of School, Techniques, Strategies and Good Ideas, Teaching Skills, Great "Little Gems", Survival Skills, Forms for a Substitute Teacher and Vocabulary.
Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Problem-by-Problem survival Guide, Randall S. Sprick, PhD., The Center for Applied Research in Education, West Nyack, New York 10994 (or from Amazon.com).
Practical resource that gives teachers techniques for dealing immediately with classroom behavior problems and developing more effective discipline policies and procedures over time. Included are dozens of useful management forms, letters, and record sheets, plus quick and easy guide to solving 42 specific misbehaviors.
The Essential 55, Ron Clark, Hyperion Publishing Company, New York, (or Amazon.com).
Ron Clark was the national Teacher of the Year in 2001. In this book he covers all aspects of life, from the classroom to the world, from human interactions to the most frightening of all – cafeteria and bathroom manners—and shows that with determination, discipline, and regular rewards, the young people you stick by will be the young people you eventually admire.
Unauthorized Teacher's Survival Guide, Jack Warner and Clyde Bryan, with Diane Warner, Park Avenue Publishing Company, 2001, (or Amazon.com).
This reference is well organized and informative for teachers, and beginning teachers in particular. Loaded with helpful suggestions for improving interpersonal relationships with students, parents, and various staff members.
Setting Classroom Limits in the Classroom, Robert J. MacKenzie, Ed.D, Prima Publishing Company, www.primapublishing.com, 2003.
Disruptive behavior, power struggles, lack of motivation, attention deficit disorder—at times the list of obstacles to teaching seems endless. This book includes solutions for many of these problems and more.
Classroom Discipline Problem Solver, George Watson, The National Center for Applied Research in Education, West Nyack, New York, 1998 (or from Amazon.com)
This book is a 100 percent benefit for teachers. It includes techniques and guidelines for dealing with school discipline problems. The ideas in this resource help to create that disciplined environment we all need. The concepts and strategies were chosen because they were very practical. These examples work!!
The First Days of School, Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong, Harry K. Wong Publishing Co., www.EffectiveTeaching.com, 2004 (includes CD.
This book is one of the most popular books sold in developing classroom management techniques. Effective teaching makes effecitve teachers. It is like an automobile owner's manual. You will be able to turn to the right section to solve a problem if something doesn't work right. A must have reference.