Technology Tools for Effective Classroom and Behavior Management

Socrative is a smart student response system that allows teachers to engage their students through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Teachers control the questions and games on their laptop, while students respond and interact. Socrative is simple to set up and there are a variety of options for you to use. You can ask multiple choice questions, have exit tickets to gauge understanding, you can include pictures in your questions, and you can also have short answer questions as well. This allows for effective and easy classroom management.

Instead of signaling traffic to "go", "slow down" or "stop", The Yacker Tracker signals too much noise in the classroom. Teachers may select the appropriate sound level for any given situation and let the Yacker Tracker be an audio-visual reminder when the noise level gets too high.

Visual schedules, picture schedules and more for teaching students behavior skills, behavior management, and classroom management.

Time structuring tools for helping students with time management skills and behavior management skills.

This is an example of a "Stoplight" bulletin board used for classroom management of behaviors. According to the website, "Post a stoplight pattern like the one shown above on the board and staple enough library card pockets next to it so that each student will have one. Number the pockets and assign each student a number. Place one green stoplight tag in each pocket. Cut out a dozen tags in yellow, orange, and red, and place them in pockets near the base of the stoplight. Students start each day with a green tag. When a student engages in an off-task behavior, place a yellow tag in his or her pocket as a caution. If another incident occurs that day, place an orange tag in the pocket and follow up with a previously determined consequence. For serious infractions, place the red tag in the pocket. At the end of the day, record the colors shown in each pocket on a class chart. Remove the yellow, orange, and red tags so that everyone will have a fresh start the following day."

These printable awards and certificates will help teachers recognize effort, achievement, and/or progress of students. Specifically, behavior awards will encourage acts of kindness and promote good citizenship in the classroom. Students of all ages will appreciate the acknowledgement of their hard work.

This blog highlights an activity that can be used to get parents involved in behavior management in the classroom.

This token system was designed for primary grade students. It was designed to be the "world's easiest token system" since many token economies are exhausting and hard to implement within the classroom.

This website has numerous amounts of free behavior charts and classroom printables in which teachers may use in their classroom.

This worksheet can be used at any grade level from K-12. It allows the teacher to organize his/her thoughts pertaining to classroom activities prior to being completed. It allows teachers to anticipate how the activity will follow through within the classroom. It highlights how the teacher wants students to engage in conversation, what should be done if the students need help, what is the expected product of the activity, what kind of movement is permissible, and what constitutes active participation.