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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.

This site offers a plethara of information from "I" messages to classroom tips.There are documentaries and Web episodes geared towards middle and high school students. There are also lesson plan ideas and resources.

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 is an excellent website to use for getting ideas on developing a behavior intervention plan. It discusses the importance of assessing the student along with addressing the student's possible skill and performance deficits. It is a great source for beginning teachers that may be dealing with students having behavior problems.

A good explanation of Behavior Intervention Plan and some other ideas about its use.

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.

Several good articles on different kinds of problem behavior and suggestion on how to solve them .

Page includes: classroom management sites, preventing classroom discipline problems, inforcing classroom rules, helping students succeed.

This page displays an overview of the five Ps" of classroom management: Positive, Powerful, prerequisites, participation, and perameters. A list of classroom posters and signs, handouts and activity sheets, Absence of threat, and and a character educational link.

Youth Change is a website devoted to helping educators and other "youth professionals" solve problems with kids. It has many articles and tips available for free. It also has links to live chats and in-person workshops. E-books are also available for download from this site. The site is mostly commercial but has excellent free resources available and some of the paid resources may also be a worthwhile investment.

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 a bit of a different take on a study done on elementary classrooms from March 2007. It is written from a scientific outlook based on students "experiences" in the classroom.

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.