Classroom Management
MoreCreating Healthy Learning Environments
Dealing with Mistreatment, Bullying, and Harassment
Whatever you call it—bullying, mistreatment, harassment—the basic issue will always persist: kids can be really stinkin' mean. Since your students spend a large percentage of their waking hours...
Physical Classrooms
With all the time you spend in the classroom with your flock of students, the last thing you want is any intruding toxins, problems with cleanliness, or worst of all, poor feng shui. That's why it'...
Teacher Tone
Here's how you don't want to sound. Sure, we loved the Charlie Brown teacher voice when we were kids, but no one wants a teacher with the wah-wah-wah voice for real. What's more, research articles...
6 Ways to Encourage Your Students to do Their Best Work
All educators want their students to produce high-quality work. Could we get any more "duh" up in here? But what are the best ways to ensure that they actually do? We've rounded up 6 tried-and-true...
Plans for Substitute Teachers
The dreaded substitute teacher. The kids dread the sub will be mean. You dread that the kids will be mean. And the sub—well, the sub probably dreads that you'll come back and they'll be out of a...
Humor in the Classroom
Knock, knock. Who's there?More.More who?You've got it backwards—who more. As in, "Humor in the Classroom," which just so happens to be our topic today…If you're still with us, you've learned th...
The Pros and Cons of Assigned Seating
Ah, the seating chart. Spawning many a sleepless night for the teacher and many an enmity among students. Okay, okay, or friendship.Maybe you've got rows. Maybe you've got a bunch of desks side-to-...