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This website is a fantastic resource for teachers. The user can choose by grade, by subject, or by lesson plan. Teachers can also download printables, lesson plans, and classroom management information. There is even a section to help first year teachers. This site does have subscription fee ($39.95/year) and has a 7-day free trial available.

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 very useful website for teachers dealing with students that are ADD. It discusses ways to deal with managing the students behavior as well as using positive and negative reinforcement with the students. Each student is different as an individual and as teachers we need to be able to react and help students learn new behaviors. This website also gives a few strategies to help teach new behaviors that are positive.

This site I thought was very easy to navigate. It is a site for first year teachers. It gives insight and some ideas and other links to help in the first year. It also gives a bit of encouragement.

This site was a bit different in that it provided a report from 2334 teachers from 49 districts in Distruct of Columbia that gave a breakdown of teacher needs inlcluding classroom management. It was very interesting to see their responses!!

This website gives an excellent breakdown of issues and solutions that teachers can use on daily basis. It gives tips on preventing poor behavior before it even begins. It provides practical ways in dealing with students who can be disruptive and even a danger to other students in the classroom. It also provides a list of of positive and negative behaviors that can be handed out to students to make them more accountable to their fellow classmates and the teacher.

This is a great site for all teachers. It deals with bullying, violence prevention, and personal safety in the schools. This site is excellent for help with enacting the safe school movement. Many of the activities are geared toward elementary and middle school aged children. Some of the resources, such as downloadable brochures, are free. Teachers can use these resources to make their schools a safer place and to reduce bullying.

This site is written by Howard Seeman, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Education at City University of New York, Lehman College. He teaches classroom management, educational psychology, methods, and has had a hand in the supervision of teachers and student teachers since 1970. He also wrote a book on the subject and is in circulation today.

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 site offers a plethara of different information that ranges from teaching practices to child development. It also has a blog component to talk to other teachers and share experiences and thoughts.

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 is an excellent resource to use for creating classroom procedures. As teachers, we know that without classroom procedures, learning time can be lost. This website gives ideas for first day and instructional procedures as well as procedures for secondary students. It also provides a printable worksheet for procedures to use for your own classroom.

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.

This is another site for first year teachers. It provides articles, discipline ideas, and things like learning the students names. IThe site is very clean and structured so therefore easy to get to what you want quickly.

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 website provides beginning teachers some great ideas for developing a classroom management plan. It even gives some great pointers on classroom design and where to situate your desk in relation to the students desks. It discusses the 3 major components of controlling and promoting good behavior: preventative, supportive, and corrective procedures. It also provides rationale for the procedures used in the website.

This is a great website for providing teachers with interventions to support positive behavior in the classroom. The classroom management practices provided are to promote positive behavior and have also been researched and have been proven to be effective in the classroom. The website also points out the important factors to consider in order to encourage positive behavior in the classroom.