Classroom Management Strategies
Classroom Management Strategies for teachers and lecturers
This is a big problem in tough classrooms – rude students making it their mission to offend or embarrass a teacher by asking personal, probing questions. One of the worst things you can do in response to such comments is show that you’re bothered. If you give them an emotional response of any kind you’ll [...]
i) Make sure you have their full attention before giving instructions Make sure they are looking at you and not fiddling with a pencil, turning around, looking at a book, etc. One quite ingenious way of getting eye contact is to hold your pen up in front of you and then move it slowly [...]
If you struggle to get your students’ attention during lessons I’ve put together a nifty collection of ideas which may help. This sample of classroom management strategies has been taken from the full ‘55 Ways to Get Silence from a Noisy Group’ which is available with our Take Control of the Noisy Class teacher pack. [...]
Wey Hey! Here’s a bumper (and ever-growing) collection of strategies to keep noise levels down in your classroom. Read them, try them out and let us know how you get on. You can also help us grow this collection for teachers around the world by leaving your best classroom management strategy for getting noisy [...]
What better way to start the day than with another excerpt from our Take Control of the Noisy Class program. Today I thought I’d share a few novel ways to get student attention when you present them with work tasks. We’ve included more than 50 in the full program but these should keep you [...]
Most teachers know that positive reinforcement is a very powerful classroom management strategy – it’s certainly the approach we recommend in Needs Focused Classroom Management. The problem is, praise phrases such as ‘well done’ and ‘This is fantastic Jonny’, tend to get very tiresome by the end of a lesson and they lose their [...]
How to Get Students Sat Down and Ready to Work… I’ve just posted the next video in the series which you may be interested in… This video explains a four-step process to get students in the classroom, sat down and ready to work with minimal fuss and disruption.
Noisy students? REALLY tough student groups? I’ve just posted a video online which you may be interested in… This video explains a little-used, often-forgotten but very effective way of taking control of really tough groups of students right at the start of lessons. This method is for really challenging, noisy groups that take ages [...]
This sort of disruption can be like water torture to the teacher, that incessant symphony of pencil tapping, silly noises, poking, bogey-flicking, giggling, inappropriate flatulence, paper-passing, ruler-slapping, desk shoving, hair-pulling, and general fidgeting. Kids will be kids, and in themselves many of the above are all fairly harmless activities (though those involving bodily functions [...]
There are always going to be students who try to make us feel uncomfortable by asking increasingly personal, inappropriate, silly questions. This is especially common when we get a new class to teach – whether it’s the start of term or a cover lesson and it is a scenario which must be dealt with [...]
This is one of those seemingly unimportant classroom management issues which is often swept under the carpet by a teacher who is frantically trying to concentrate efforts on more serious issues. In a lively class, when you’ve got Mary and Matilda cat fighting, Liam smoking, Carl spitting on Graham, Steven chucking text books at [...]
Have you ever asked students to get on with their work only to turn round five minutes later and see that they’ve totally ignored your instructions? (Hint: if you say no, we probably won’t believe you!) And then when you ask them why they aren’t doing as you asked do they just say “I didn’t [...]
Before trying to find solutions to any problem it’s a good idea to look at the reasons why the problem is occurring; knowing why a problem is happening gives clues as to how to address it. Today we’re going to look at classroom management strategies to get support from unsupportive parents. There are many reasons [...]
Policies regarding mobile phones vary from setting to setting so the way you address this problem will depend on the school/college’s overall viewpoint. If the establishment you’re working in has a definite rule and consequences in place regarding use of phones you can treat this as any other behaviour problem and consistently stick to the [...]
You may have noticed that most of our free classroom management resources have been removed from the Behaviour Needs website. The reason for this is that we want to improve them and add to them. Remember yesterday I said I wanted to focus on giving you all valuable free content? Well this is one area [...]
Hi everyone, As it gets toward the end of term I thought I’d continue with a few classroom management tips – you may find them useful for next term if not for this one. This is one of Rob’s tips on verbal responses I found on our server … Early in my teaching career I [...]
Wow, this is one of our most targeted, practical resources to date on behaviour management strategies. Packed with relevant, useful ideas, tips and strategies our Take Control of the Noisy Class recorded webinar is a must for any teacher who wants more control in the classroom. I’ve added a STACK of bonuses which you can [...]
Hi everyone, I’ve just spent an hour on a conference call with Finton O’Regan and I have some fantastic news… Finton and I will be producing a new training course at the end of this month covering everything you need to know about managing, coping and succeeding with students who have ADHD in your classroom. [...]
This last step might prove a little difficult. When we’re angry, we have a tendency to spew out profanities or speeches that really don’t get us anywhere, even if what we’re saying is true or productive.
Do you have students dragging themselves along the corridor to your lessons moaning all the way about how they’d rather be doing anything rather than come to class? Do you have some students who hate your lessons? Here’s something you can do to improve the situation and have those same students arriving in a positive [...]
1. Offer support Often pupils are defiant because they are afraid of failure – they don’t want to look stupid in front of others. I’m not saying this is always the case – they may be acting out of revenge, for fun or because it gives them a sense of power but in any circumstance, [...]
Here are some classroom management strategies for dealing with students who are late for lessons: 1. Have clear rules on punctuality Students need to know that there is a clear rule in place with regard to punctuality. They need to know what the consequence is for being late and they need to know that this [...]
Here are some classroom management strategies to help deal with students who ‘forget’ to bring materials and equipment to class… 1. Offer to loan them some of your equipment in return for ‘collateral’ such as a shoe. 2. Give a brief period of time at the start of the lesson for pupils to borrow items [...]
Here are four useful strategies to help deal with the class that just won’t settle: 1. Allow some cooling off time of a few minutes after transitions and breaks to allow them to settle. Use this time to chat to individuals and small groups, settle them, deal with any problems and establish a calm, relaxed [...]
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