CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Top 10 Most Effective Teacher Phrases
- Pass your papers forward
- Listen up/This is important
- Pencils down and look up here
- Attention!
- You may begin
- Start wrapping up
- This is due at the end of the period
- Asking any question and cold-calling
- Cheating is not worth it. If you’re worried, prepare better next time.
- We have a lot to do today.
Essential Classroom Rules
1. Listen to the speaker at all times and follow teacher instructions promptly.
2. Respect yourself, others, and the school property.
3. Raise your hand for permission to speak or to leave your seat.
4. Be seated in your assigned seat with materials ready when the bell rings.
5. The teacher dismisses you, not the bell. No packing up until she gives you permission.
6. No gum and no cell phone use in class.
Top 10 Classroom Procedures to Teach
- Tardy policy
- Bathroom policy
- Turning in Late Work
- Speaking in class
- Bellwork
- Passing forward paper
- Receiving behavioral consequences
- Correcting homework
- Test taking
- Finishing work earlyTop 5 Most Effective Behavioral Corrections for Whole Class
- Wait time - wait silently and authoritatively for students to quiet down
- Keep talking and let students shush each other
- Narrating compliance: “I see Erin working quietly, I see Ron…”
- Approach students and ask smaller groups to pay attention until whole class gets the message
- Ask the students to be quiet, talking louder to be heard
Top 5 Most Effective Behavioral Corrections for Individuals- Asking the student: “What should you be doing?” Re-explain directions if necessary
- Announcing progress toward desired compliance: “I need 3 more eyes up here and mouths closed”
- Eye contact with student followed by a disapproving look
- Stand closer to the student
- Call out the student by name
10 Disciplinary Measures in Increasing Seriousness - Verbal Warning (see above)
- Lunch Detention in your classroom + phone call home
- Move the student to another seat
- Make student leave the classroom and have conversation with him/her after
- After school detention
- One period-suspension
- Parent-teacher meeting
- Parent-teacher-administrator meeting
- Suspension
- Expulsion
Top 10 Achievement-Gap Closers
- Call parents
- Meet with student after school
- Learn about the student’s interests
- Ask how student is doing/if he’s ok
- Discipline student - relentlessly give consequences
- Discover the reason behind absences and misbehavior
- Write down thoughts
- Positive peer relationships
- Know the other people in his life
- Encourage and praise him
Top 10 Things on Adolescents’ Minds
- Friends/Social Media
- Grades/School
- Family
- Money
- Obtaining the latest technology/clothing
- Music
- Cars
- Movies/TV
- Books
- PoliticsTop 10 Teaching Philosophies
- Learning is the sharing of minds
- Memory is the residue of thought
- We are a community of scholars
- Knowledge is power
- The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of happiness
- Kindness
- Respect yourself to gain respect
- Back up your view with evidence
- Consider the other side
Top 5 Ways to Focus on Lesson Objectives- Title your lesson
- Write down the objective on the board
- Verbally declare the objective before or after the lesson
- Weave it into all elements of your lesson
- Assess it at the end of class
Top 10 Most Common Lesson Objectives (in Layman’s terms)- Restate an author’s main points
- State arguments for a position and its opposition
- Explain a theory/concept
- Give/identify examples of a theory/concept
- Use vocabulary correctly
- Closely parse out the structure of a case study
- Come up with questions for further study
- Write a clear essay answering a question with evidence
- Quickly solve a problem in allotted time
- Make connections between a detail and a wider implicationTop 5 Instructional (Demonstrational) Techniques
- Powerpoint
- Verbal lecture
- Board notes
- Video
- Textbook reading/notetaking
ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING SKILLSTop Academic Skills- Metacognition
- Time Management
- Speaking
- Listening
- Reading
- Writing
- Composing emails
- Presentations
Top Ways to Build Writing Skills- Freewriting
- Peer editing
- Rewrites
- Teacher Demos
- Outlines/Graphic Organizers
- Reading good writing
- Identifying strategies of good writers
Top 10 Literary Discussion Activities
- Reading groups with assigned roles
- Fishbowl socratic
- Debate
- Four corners
- Socratic
- Discussion quiz
- Reviewing Questions, free form discussion (see independent practice list)
- Save the Last Word for Me
- Quiz answers
- Pair activities (see guided practice list)
Top 10 Guided Practice (Collaborative Learning) Activities
- Think-Pair-Share
- Group quiz
- Save the Last Word for Me
- Peer Editing
- Literary Circles
- Write around
- Pair Squares
- Group Presentations
- Skit
- Advertisement
Top 10 Vocabulary Activities
- Vocabulary skits
- Antonyms/synonyms
- Use in a sentence
- Draw a picture
- Part of speech/etymology
- Dictionary hunt
- Acting out
- Repeated use
- Yes/No Questions
- Replacements
List 13: Top 5 Gamification (Competition) Ideas
- Jeopardy
- Demotion
- Whiteboard Race
- Booklympics
- BaseballTop 10 Projects (English)
- Alternate ending
- Acting it out
- Change the genre: commercial, modern-day, social media, diary
- Video project
- Speech
- Book report
- 3D model
- Rap/song
- Book jacket/collage
- ParodyTop 10 Independent Practice Activities
- Dialectical Journal
- Outline
- Drawing with written explanation
- Write own questions
- Change the genre - Facebook, Twitter
- Close reading/Literary Devices
- Answering questions
- Diary entry
- Historical research
- Theme identification
Top 10 Summarization Activities - Write a tweet
- One-sentence summary
- Title each chapter
- Comic book/collage
- Mind map
Top 10 Ways to Respond to a Hard Day
- Connect with friends/family
- Connect with colleagues
- Reflect on the day in a quiet space alone
- Enjoy favorite movie/book/music
- Exercise
- Take a bath/massage after school
- Play a movie
- Silent work day
- Take a day off
- Draw/paint/write