This document provides classroom management tips for teachers of children and adolescents. It suggests understanding learners' developmental needs and attention spans. Tips include going in with a positive attitude, changing the environment to learning stations, and differentiating activities. The document also recommends coming up with rules together, allowing breaks, and communicating nonverbally. Finally, it discusses using digital badges to recognize achievements and the importance of parent partnerships.

1. Classroom Management Tips
for Children & Adolescents
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"Today I will behave as if this is the day I will
be remembered.” - Dr. Seuss

4. Kids act up for all sorts of reasons!

5. I’m tired
I’m hungry
I don’t understand
I’m have ADHD
My parents are
getting a divorce

6. Understand your learners’
developmental needs
Attention Spans:
• Ages 2-3= 3-4 minutes
• Age 5= 5 to 10 minutes
• Ages 6-8= 15-20 minutes
• Ages 9-12= 22-35 minutes
Sciencemaster77.blogspot.com/2011/01/
attention-spans-revisited.html

7. Go in with a positive attitude!
We’re going
to rock this
year!

8. Put yourself in a better mood before class!
Exercise
Give yourself pep talks
Relax with music
MeditateEat breakfast

9. Change the
environment to
help you facilitate!

10. Image CC Classroom View by Kathy Cassidy, Flicker
Learning Stations
Group work
Individual work Whole class

11. How do I
manage this?

12. Activity Logs

13. Calendars

14. • Give each group a stack of
yellow, blue, & red cups.
• The top cup is their status.
• Yellow= sunny & bright,
everything's all right
• Blue= we're through, what
should we do?
• Red= we have a problem
we cannot solve alone
The Cup System
Theorganizedclassroomblog.com/index.php/blog/cup-management

15. Differentiate activities
Move around Include rest
periods
Balance out activity
and inactivity
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16. Suggested Activities for Kids
Games
Closing song/dance
BreaksDance! Sing!
Hands-on activities
Story time
Hello song
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17. Suggested Activities for Adolescents
Pair or group mini tasks Circle discussions
Games
Scavenger Hunts
Surveys Videos
InterviewsJournal
Hands-on activities
Polls
Podcasts
Blog
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18. Come up with the rules together
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19. • Arrive on time
• Be nice to others
• Share
• Clean after myself
• Listen

20. Communicate
nonverbally!

21. Allow them to
take a break
and do
something
calming

22. Talk to them
about their
actions.

23. Digital Badges
(Girl) Scout Troopers by JD Hancock, Flic.kr/p/8jBfQv
“Celebrate
what you
want to see
more of.”
- Thomas J.
Peters

24. Girl Scouts visit Mayor Summey for Girl Scouts Week by North Charleston, Flic.kr/p/kVYxBZ
They mark a certain
achievement ... when
one girl sees a badge on
a sister Scout's arm, if
that girl has won the
same badge, it at once
awakens an interest and
sympathy between them.
- Juliette Lowe
Humanize digital learning

25. Openbadges.me/designer.html

26. Futureofeducation.com/page/rscon5-digital-badges

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29. Credly free iOS app

30. Pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/digital-badges/id11953981

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“At the end of the
day, the most
overwhelming key to
a child's success is the
positive involvement
of parents.”
- Jane D. Hull
Parent partnerships

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