This document provides tips and strategies for effective classroom management. It discusses building community, creating a safe and well-managed environment, involving students in rule-making, addressing conflicts quickly and wisely, integrating positive rituals, knowing your students, being consistent, and partnering with parents. Consistency, proximity, and using 30-second interventions to collapse conflicts are emphasized. Teachers are reminded that they will have bad days but should strive to get help and model the behaviors they want to see in students.

2. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
 "Will what I am about to do or say bring me closer
to the person with whom I am communicating—or
will it push me further away?"
Five Questions that will improve your teaching, by Larry Ferlazzo

3. TEN TIPS…
① Build Community
② Design a Safe, Friendly,& Well-
Managed Classroom Environment
③ Include Students in Creating
Rules, Norms, Routines &
Consequences

4. HOW?
 Have students brainstorm characteristics of both a
“good” student and a “good” teacher.
 Collect their responses.
 Share the most common responses with students
(weed out the ones you can’t live with)
 These characteristics can help to develop rules
and guidelines for how the class will run.

5. TEN TIPS…
④ Create a Variety of
Communication Channels
④ Always Be Calm, Fair &
Consistent

6. CONSISTENCY
“We are the authors of what happens in the
classroom. Students follow our lead and
behave in ways that we unconsciously
allow.”
From, Conscious Classroom Management, Rick Smith
 Beconsistent with procedures. When
students call out, we need to honour the
procedure rather that the content.
 Get all students actively on task before
handling individual conversations with any
of them.

7. CONSISTENCY
 Stay focused on your topic even as students try to
change it.
 Teaching and re-teaching procedures.
 Enforcing and following through with
consequences.
 Starting and ending class on time.
 Welcoming and encouraging students.

8. RELAXING INTO CONSISTENCY
 Being consistent doesn’t mean being a
robot or machine. It arises out of our caring
for our students and caring for their
learning. As we combine an open resilient
quality with a commitment to teach students
content, behaviour, and procedures, we
naturally become more consistent without
losing our humanity or spontaneity.
Conscious classroom management, Rick Smith

9. ⑥ KNOW THE STUDENTS YOU TEACH
Take a few minutes to complete the needs inventory
sheet. (Restitution Focus)

10. KNOW THE STUDENTS YOU TEACH

11. LOVE & BELONGING….

12. POWER…

13. FREEDOM…

14. FUN…

15. ⑦ ADDRESS CONFLICT QUICKLY & WISELY…

16. WHAT ARE SOME REACTIONS OF PEOPLE
WHEN FEELING CONFLICTED?
 Group brainstorm

17. ⑦ ADDRESS CONFLICT QUICKLY & WISELY
Tootsie Pop Brain
Collapse Conflict
30 Second Interventions

19. COLLAPSING CONFLICT USING 30 SECOND
INTERVENTIONS
 What is your job right now?
 What do you need to get started?
 What can I do to help you so that you can…
 It looks like you have a problem. What can I do
to help you with this?
 Is what you are doing now helping or hurting
the lesson and learning for others?
 Is this the kind of person/student you want to
be?
 What is our rule? Can you do that?

20. PROXIMITY
 Proximity is the best method of ensuring that
students are engaged and maximizing learning
time.
 Helps to keep them focused.
 You can go near inattentive students when they are
talking.
 Remember to move away from them when they are
contributing so that the whole group can hear.
 You can pause in your proximity procedure long
enough so that disruptive students don’t just pause-
--they stop.

21. TEN TIPS…
⑧ Integrate Positive Classroom Rituals
⑨ Keep It Real
⑩ Partner with Parents and Guardians

22. PLEASE ASK FOR HELP….
Synonyms for help…
 Advice
 Collegiality
 Collaboration
 Educational Consulting
 Professional Development

23. FINAL THOUGHTS…..
What do we believe to be the
characteristics of a good teacher?
Image from Learn This, http://learnthis.ca/2009/05/6-steps-to-setup-an-
effective-brainstorming-session/

24. HOW ABOUT….
Sometimes makes mistakes
Sometimes has bad days
Sometimes feels helpless
Sometimes feels overwhelmed
Sometimes feels stresses
Sometimes feels unappreciated

25. LESSONS FROM GEESE

26. From Dianne and Julie

27. SOURCES
 Conscious Classroom Management, Rick Smith
 The First Days of School, Harry Wong
 Google Images, Google
 Larry Ferlazzo
 Restitution, Diane Gossen