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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.

This article talked about a positive parent-teacher conference. I believe like the article suggest meetings should be done in the beginning before there are any problems. Get the parents on your side in the beginning.

This website is an excellent resource for all teachers. With the use of mainstreaming, almost all teachers have at least one ESE student in their day. This website is an excellent resource for dealing with learning disabilities. It has links for parents, teachers, and kids to help them to understand different exceptionalities. LD Online is run by the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities and has many articles written by doctoral level specialists.

It seems that teachers are having more of a problem with disciplining students than ever before. As teachers, we wonder why our students present such poor behavior. This website talks about the importance of positive discipline and gives various ways of incorporating positive discipline into the classroom.

This is a great website that explains all types of discipline issues that may be encountered as a teacher or a parent. Each behavior is broken down through various characteristics displayed by different types of children. The site then enables the user to find alternatives to correcting the issues. Basic human needs are explained though each characteristic which can then be understood and converted into a solution by providing a better approach to meeting these needs of the child other than through their display of misbehavior.

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 site talks about topics such as fostering self esteem, behavior, social skills and managing AD/HD. This is not just geared towards a teacher but also parents dealing with issues. This also had a bit of an interesting componet in that it added a correlation between famous people with dyslexia and other learning disabilties and children.

American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities http://www.aamr.org/. This site does not deal specifically with classroom management. It does, however, address many of the issues that are faced in schools on a daily basis. This is an incredible resource for teachers working with students with developmental disabilities. This site can give teachers and parents professional help in understanding their students' disorders which will lead to better classroom management.

This website is an excellent source for disciplining all ages. It discusses discipline stategies, what not to do when disciplining your child, and strategies for disciplining teenagers. It also provides information on determining what disciplinary style you are and techniques that can be used to deter bad behavior.

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.