This document discusses strategies for effective classroom management. It recommends that teachers establish clear expectations for student behavior by limiting rules to five that are either general or specific. Teachers should explain to students the reasons for rules. When disciplining, teachers should use positive language, focus on the behavior not the student, and ensure consequences are consistently followed through. Effective classroom management allows both teachers and students to teach and learn effectively.

1. “At-Risk”
• What is at-risk?

2. • Partner Activity
• Messengers locate information
• Scribes write information “delivered” by the
Messenger
• Benefits-
– Communication
– Active Involvement
– Competitive
– Collaborative

3. Classroom Management
• “Students will perform better when
they know what the teacher expects of
them. Being prepared is the best strategy
to use to prevent problems, because
If you do not structure your
classroom, the students will structure it
for you.”
– Wong & Wong

4. The Truth About Classroom Rules
• Limit of Five
• General or Specific
• Teach Why
• “If you make it so I can’t teach effectively
or you or other students can’t learn
effectively there is a problem.”
– Foley

5. What To Say When Disciplining
• Use positive language
• “I need you to…” “I expect you to…”
• NOT “Stop doing that…”
• Let students decide there own fate
– Choice
• Focus on the behavior, not the student
– “I like you, it’s your behavior I don’t like.”
• Don’t take away their dignity

6. Follow-Through
• If a consequence is given, you must
go through with it

7. Consistency
• Highway patrolman

9. • Multiple Intelligence Self-Assessment
• http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_
ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm

11. • Create a learning activity based on the
type of intelligence your group picked. Be
ready to describe the activity to the class.
Also be ready to explain which level of
Bloom’s Taxonomy your activity would fall
in. Use the information provided. You can
use other prior information you have as
well.