Classroom Management

Intentionally fostering collaboration in the classroom has a variety of benefits, including increasing students’ level of academic engagement.

Students’ critical comments may throw new teachers off, but they can be useful for sparking engagement and learning.

Strategies tailored to the special challenges teachers face when they work together in the classroom.

A three-phase process helps build strong teacher-student bonds, which can reduce disruptive behavior.

Greeting each student at the door with a positive message brings benefits for both students and teacher.

Strategies for ensuring that students in every grade feel like they’re part of the classroom community.

Most teachers use silencing methods, such as flicking the lights or ringing a call bell. This article explores some additional ideas categorized by grade bands.

Any student may refuse to cooperate at times, but handling students with oppositional defiant disorder requires that teachers have a plan.

I'm a firm believer in keeping the focus on what's really important: the students. If student motivation and higher engagement is truly the desired end game, then we as teachers must adapt right along with our students in our classrooms.

The year I started teaching seventh- to twelfth-grade English in Minneapolis, Prince launched his song about urban ruin, "Sign o' the Times." That song was an apt musical backdrop for the lives of my students, most of whom lived in poverty and challenged me daily. Fortunately, classroom order improved when I learned that successful classroom management depends on conscientiously executing a few big strategies and a lot of little ones.

Teacher-tested ideas to help students quietly fidget.