This document provides tips and guidelines for classroom management and procedures for middle school teachers. It discusses establishing daily outlines, classroom rules and procedures, timing lessons effectively, and using fillers and review activities. It also offers suggestions for maintaining control through consistent enforcement of rules, handling disruptive behavior through techniques like proximity and private conferences, and establishing an honor code for assignments. The document emphasizes starting with strict expectations and addressing discipline issues yourself when possible.

1. Classroom Management
Stuff You Can Use
#SYCU
2014 edition

2. Post Daily Outline

3. Post Daily Outline
Example,
• Go over HW
• Daily outline
• Classroom Procedures
• Timing
• Control

4. Classroom Procedures: What do they need to know?

5. Classroom Procedures
• Need-to-know basis
• Seating chart
• Desk arrangement
• When they enter classroom…
• Going to the bathroom
• Pen v. Pencil
• What materials to bring every day
• Sharpening pencils
• Posting procedures
• Leaving the classroom

6. Timing: the toughest thing ever.
• How do you fill every minute of every class
period every day?
• How long should you teach a unit before
giving a test?
• Fillers

7. Fillers and/or Review Ideas
• YouTube [Hey, Ed, mention FLS here]
• Twitter
• Geoguessr / QuizUp
• Vine (or IG or iMovie)
• Question no one can miss
• Recycle Ball

9. Double RPS

10. Control (a.k.a. Classroom Management)
• Giving directions
• ***RULE of 3s***

11. Handling Bad Student Behavior
• The most important rule for you…
• Some techniques

12. Some techniques: Hey, these things work!
• Grow a scary goatee
• The Look
• Quick name call (use with The Look)
• Proximity
• The Whisper
• The Quick In-the-Hall Conference
• Hold after class
• The note (email) home

13. • It’s always easier to start tough…

15. Some Words You Really Should Not
Use in a Middle School Classroom
• Wood
• Balls
• Hard
• Duty
• Uranus. Joint. P- and S-waves.
• Jacket
• p. 69
• Period
• Any questions whose response can be “TWSS” or
“Your mom.”

16. Handle your own discipline,
except for…

17. Honor Code

18. Honor Code
• Read it
• Don’t handle violations yourself
• Know where they should go and the
procedure for handling them
• Don’t ignore them if you see them
• Try not to put your students in a precarious
honor position. Make directions clear.
• You can go years without seeing one

20. Homework
• Why give it? The Homework Myth
• Grading it
• Work together? Make it clear.
• How do they know what the assignment is?
• Accept late work? Any school policy?
• Absences
• Do not give as punishment

21. The End