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This site is a good resource for dealing with difficult parents. Topics include, but not limited to: Defining Parents' Involvment, How Does Parents' Involvment Help Kids,, Implementing Parent-Involvment Programs, and Pitfalls. Any teacher will find this site useful.

TThis site is an over view of bahavior management surveys, classroom managent rules, and classroom managent rules involving students. It also have a list of links techniques to a better classroom discipline, behavior mangement, and classrom discipline tips.

This a great tool to use and has many different ideas to use for classroom management. It's essential to start off on the right foot in the classroom and continue good behavior throughout the entire school year. The website gives numerous tips on involving parents in your students homework to using rewards to promote good behavior. It also provided various ways in dealing with poor behavior and utilizing your time to get more teaching and learning in opposed to spending more time with discipline issues.

This is a great site for learning about using democracy in the classroom. Alfie Kohn has written many innovative books on classroom management and ways to involve students in classroom management decisions. This site not only gives you the opportunity to order his books, but you can also use it to read articles and find additional information about his theory. This site can be extremely useful for a teacher looking to implement the ideas of removing rewards and punishments and moving toward greater democracy.

Dr. Dennis Mills has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and is a professor at the Philadelphia Biblical University. Dr. Mills gives theories of classroom management using a Biblical perspective for teachers in private, religious organizations. Much of this can be applied to public school teachers. Dr. Mills takes a firm focus on leading by example, consistency with the rules, and parental involvement. Dr. Mills lays down 9 important principles for teachers to use during the first weeks of school to establish classroom management. Dr. Mills is a well studied professor who has set out a well written plan for classroom management. Mills, D. (1997) Classroom Discipline: A Management Guide. Retrieved May 22, 2008, from http://www.csrnet.org/csrnet/articles/classroom-discipline.html.