M401 Fall 2014

One of my concerns is having a unorganized classroom, where the set up seems clustered rather than welcoming and homey. This blog helps with just that and gives 9 different tips to keep in mind. The comments as well provide helpful tips.

I love the idea of having students use whiteboards in class, whether it be for reading or math. This blog shows a way to get rid of the mess of tissues as erasers!

This contains different ideas of finger plays and songs that teachers can use to get the attention of their students.

This website explores the benefits of using random reward in the classroom to improve classroom management.

This is a collection of resources that can be used for behavior management in the classroom. There are different activities and printables to use.

This website lists the pros and cons of common core standards and contains articles about the recent problems.

This link connects you to a book that has answers to over 100 interview questions that are common in teacher interviews. There is a mobile version of the book as well.

This website contains important procedures that need to be taught during the first week of school and how to teach them.

This blog contains brain break activities that are based off of the show "Minute to Win It".

This is a big list of books that are great for the first few days of school.

This website just contains tips for how to document the behavior of students in the classroom and keep it in a record.

An example of a behavior management technique based off of the clip chart. The mini clip chart allows for the same things except that it's much smaller and kept private so the student is not embarrassed.

This blog contains multiple resources and links to help teachers organize their classroom based on reading level.

This is another website with ideas for classroom organization. It has pictures and suggestions from teachers all around the United States.

It's a blog for teachers that has effective ideas and tips for organizing the classroom including how to change it up each year.

This website contains a lot of various advice for new teachers. One of the interesting sections contains information on current and popular topics in education.

Use these resources and tips to help prepare your child for the new school year.

Not all of us will get teaching jobs right away, which means we will be subbing. These are GREAT tips for classroom management as a substitute teacher because we all know how difficult that can be.

Charity Preston takes you through her 6 motivational styles that helped her improve classroom management.

This article talks about how punishment doesn't work for behavior management and a nice alternative is empowerment, which the article explains how to implement.