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Mutual Respect, The right to pass, No putdowns and attentive listening. All of these concepts are strategies for creating a positive classroom environment.

This article looks at four areas of classroom management: -establishing classroom climate -conducting class efficiently -reaching all students -establishing discipline

An article that uses coaching as a means of classroom management. It speaks about the importance of balancing offering support to students and challenging students.

This short article lists things to consider when setting up your classroom and briefly describes some basic classroom layouts. Read this before using the classroom architect tool bookmarked below. Both of these tools are useful for our classroom management assignment and for our future classrooms!

This site describes different behaviour types. As well it talks about classroom management strategies for different types of behaviours and common mistakes made in the classroom.

Regain control AND keep everyone entertained! Perhaps not appropriate in every school or classroom, but this teacher seemed to have fun with it. And his students even got in on the action by supplying more powerful 'weapons'. Apparently, it's not only good for cats. Who knew?

A website that outlines potential lessons and resources that can be used in order to promote awareness about cyber bullying in the classroom.

In part 3 of this free online resource the need for empowerment for students is featured. Offering authentic praise and encouragment is a proven way to encourage students to work hard and repeat appropriate behaviours. Tips on offering authentic and appropriate praise are offered in this section.

Part 4 of this free online resourse dealves deeper into the need for students to feel empowered and using praise and encouragement to help meet this need and in turn prevent classroom management issues. It offers specific strategies to improve praise including how to structure it and when it is appropriate.

I came across this incredible free resource online. It is a mini-course about classroom management that takes a "needs focused" approach to prevent classroom managment issues and to deal with them effectively when/if they do arise. Part one focuses on the need of students to "belong" and contains strategies to build a "classroom community" including student meetings and team building activities.

This website is a little like a blog with teachers from all over the world sharing their strategies on dealing with behavior problems

This page outlines common mistakes of all teachers, as well as tips and ideas to avoid finding yourself in a bad situation. The first 3 pertain particularly to issues of classroom management.

This article speaks to all of the components that we talk about in class: environment, expectations, motivational climate, and maintaining a learning environment. It gives great strategies on how to keep your classroom running smooth.

This site outlines eight points about what teachers can do to keep their students engaged and, therefore, quiet. While it doesn't target specific strategies, perse, it does hit upon some broader practices. There are also some great links such as "How do I Keep My Students Away from Me?" posted before the article's main text.

When you feel like you are loosing them, get them standing and doing a Brain Break. They take only a minute or two, need no real preparation or fancy supplies and they can contribute huge dividends to your classroom management by allowing students to re-engage after a mental shift. They can be done with students of any age, usually make you laugh and challenge your brain often by crossing your mid-line thus engaging both hemispheres. They have even been suggested for use during exams and standardized tests. They are backed up by some action research I found on http://abllab.com/ which even shows some cool brain scans illustrating the difference in mental activity when someone was active right before or not! Definite food for thought to do more than your DPA to keep them engage, learning and not creating mischief!

Another short set of high school classroom management techniques. This author outlines some elements affecting older students' lives that do not as often pertain to primary, junior and intermediate students. Building on these, the article emphasizes good connections with students, and positive environments, suggests use of humour in class, but recommends sticking to private praise and discipline.

The following video provides three classroom management strategies for new teachers. These strategies include: planning ahead, classroom organization and being consistent. These strategies are helpful and can prevent classroom management issues.