Classroom Management

An Effective Guide for Classroom Management

Do you need help with classroom management? Whether you are a first time teacher or a seasoned veteran, managing a classroom can be tough. In this comprehensive Bright Hub classroom management guide you will find suggestions on how to establish a...

Tools for Making the Classroom a Place of Tolerance

Teachers, today, struggle to find ways to manage their classrooms without taking precious time away from their curriculum. Contemplative practices are useful tools that help develop classroom unity by teaching tolerance, compassion and respect for self...

Seven Easy Steps for Creating an Accountability System in Your Classroom

Accountability is one of the most important concepts to teach a child. Teaching students how to respect one another and work together as a team will help them succeed throughout their academic and working career. This article provides steps to help create...

Targeting Behavior: An Overview of Kagan’s Win-Win Discipline Strategies to Aid in Classroom Management

Do you need effective approaches to classroom management? Kagan's Win-Win discipline is the way to go. Filled with innovative discipline strategies, Win-Win is sure to lead you on the right track to effectively managing your classroom. Read about...

Create Desk Tags for Your New Class

Elementary age students love to see their names printed on a desk. It gives them a sense of possession and personal space while at school. It is a teacher's job to be creative and make some desk tags that the kids are sure to love.

Classroom Rules for 1st Grade

First graders are often still adjusting to attending school for a full day, so establishing an effective set of classroom rules is essential. Be clear and consistent from the start and your year will be successful.

How to Maintain Order While Respecting Students in the Class

This article offers a technique that teachers can use in their classroom to create a good learning environment. This technique involves providing a habitually disruptive student a quiet place in the classroom so that other students can learn.

Students and Text Messaging Addiction

Teenagers today are too often addicted to text messaging. They send hundreds of messages a day. The school day is often disrupted due to malicious gossip spreading via text messaging. This article provides tips for teachers to help stop the use of text...

Can I Have your Attention, Please?

Can I have your attention, please? A simple statement, but one that is a challenge in a world where there is so much competition for the attention of our students. This article has a simple equation to increasing attention span and engagement in the...

Make Your Students Aware of Their Personal Responsibility Levels

The beginning of the school year is the ideal time to set the expectations for behavior in your classroom. This list of levels of responsibility gives students a guideline to evaluate their own actions.