Are you wondering how to get students to stop talking in class? A chatty class, or even just one talkative child in class, can have a negative impact on learning for all students. This blog post will share strategies for a chatty class and explain how to turn chattiness into
Behavior management and classroom management are the most important parts of running a smooth classroom. They are the foundation for everything. Without those two pieces, it doesn’t matter how great your lesson plans look or how well you differentiate your instruction. It all comes down to one thing: Managing student behavior quickly and
Teachers are often searching for systems, tools, and strategies for managing classroom behavior. Like most teachers, I experimented with many different behavior management systems over the years. This post will focus on one specific system: Classroom behavior clip chart system. Let me start by saying that there is no one
Teachers use classroom behavior management systems to keep students on task and to create a safe classroom community where all children can learn. This post shares ideas and strategies teachers can use for group behavior systems as well as individual behavior plans. Read below to learn more! 5 Behavior Management
When you have a classroom with a handful of students who exhibit behaviors consistently, it can be very challenging juggling modifying, documenting, and communicating the behavior. At the same time, you are working hard to meet the needs of all your learners across disciplines. It can be exhausting! This blog
Imagine this… Your class is filled with loud chatter, laughter, and perhaps even some singing. You do one little thing. Just one. And then everything changes. All you hear is silence. (And no, it is not screaming on the top of your lungs.) MAGIC. That is the only word that
Kindness is not part of our academic standards; however, it is so important to designate time to teach students about this concept. One way to do this is to teach students to become “bucket fillers.” The idea of bucket fillers is based on Dr. Donald O. Clifton’s metaphor of the
