Launch Your Classroom Management

Classrooms can be unpredictable places, but with this book you will be able to maintain a disciplined and productive learning environment. ""Launch Your Classroom! is a powerful resource that will surely help teachers have a successful school year."-Martha R., Science Teacher "Launch Your Classroom! is a good resource for improving your teaching experience."-Sonia G., Spanish Teacher Launch Your Classroom Management!: Creating a Well-Run Classroom is a comprehensive guide for student behavior management and classroom discipline. Designing a clear classroom management plan early on will help you maximize student engagement and learning throughout the school year. In the second book of the Launch Your Classroom! Series, we give you all the essential tips and strategies for preventing student misbehavior and intervening when they occur. Reading this book, you will learn about developing effective rules with logical consequences, establishing procedures and transitions that discourage misbehaviors, and how to appropriately react to student disruptions. Launch Your Classroom Management!: Creating a Well-Run Classroom includes: Habits of effective classroom managers Guidelines for creating effective rules Behavior tracking checklists Case studies for specific misbehaviors Sample behavior contracts The Launch Your Classroom! Series is designed to offer new teachers ready-to-use, teacher-created resources. We pick up where many teaching orientations leave off, giving you research-based teaching strategies to improve classroom setup, classroom management, student engagement, and more! Going beyond instructional theory, we provide you with relatable examples, sample teaching activities, and opportunities for advanced study and practice. Launch Your Classroom! is a multi-platform resource, utilizing books and instructional videos to equip new teachers with critical information about how to succeed. Our proactive approach will help you set up a classroom network that will support learning and confront problems before they begin.

Disruptive behavior, power struggles, lack of motivation, attention deficit disorder—at times the list of obstacles to teaching seems endless. That’s why thousands of teachers and child-care providers have turned to the solutions in Setting Limits in the Classroom. This fully updated and expanded third edition offers the most up-to-date alternatives to punishment and permissiveness—moving beyond traditional methods that wear you down and get you nowhere. Topics include: • Eliminating power struggles and handling disruptions quickly • Establishing an effective environment for learning • Using natural and logical consequences to support your rules • Conducting proactive, focused parent conferences • New research and techniques for supporting special-needs children With its new focus on younger students and special tools for handling “strong-willed” children, this edition offers schoolteachers the tools they need to gain control of their classrooms—respectfully and effectively.

Improve student behavior and motivation with this comprehensive resource Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Positive Approach to Behavior Management, 4th Edition is an insightful treatment of the always-challenging topic of discipline in the high school classroom. The newly revised edition of the book incorporates a renewed focus on classroom management plans, handling the use and misuse of electronic devices in the classroom, and adapting instruction for a virtual classroom setting. Discipline in the Secondary Classroom discusses other issues crucial to the successful management of secondary classrooms and include: • How behavior is learned • Managing student work • Managing the use of technology and electronic devices in the classroom • Active engagement strategies for teacher-directed instruction (both the physical classroom and the virtual classroom) • Corrective strategies for misbehavior and inattention • Maintaining a Cycle of Continuous Improvement to be a better teacher each year Perfect for grade 9 to 12 classroom teachers and educational administrators—including principals, assistant principals, staff development professionals, and consultants— Discipline in the Secondary Classroom constitutes an indispensable resource for anyone aiming to achieve a civil, safe, and fair classroom environment.

Are you preparing for your first year teaching and confused about where to start? Launch Your Classroom! can help. "Launch Your Classroom! prepared me to deal with my new school culture. It helped me adjust quickly to the new environment."-Nicole D., 4th-grade Teacher "Launch Your Classroom! is an amazing tool for classroom management and teacher professionalism that anyone can benefit from." -Kerry-Ann F., Language Arts Teacher Launch Your Classroom!: Building a Foundation for Learning is a quick-start guide for new teachers and returning teachers to master the USA classroom. In the first book of the Launch Your Classroom! Series, you will learn everything you need to know to ensure a successful school year before the first day of class even begins. We start with the basics, covering essential information about the USA education structure, as well as approaches for adapting to your school's culture, designing your classroom and building rapport with students, parents, and coworkers. In Launch Your Classroom!: Building a Foundation for Learning, we give you all the resources to get started, including: * Classroom setup charts * Classroom supplies checklist * Ice-breakers for teachers * Instructional videos The Launch Your Classroom! Series is designed to offer new teachers ready-to-use, teacher-created resources. We pick up where many teaching orientations leave off, giving you research-based teaching strategies to improve classroom setup, classroom management, student engagement, and more! Going beyond instructional theory, we provide you with relatable examples, sample teaching activities, potential setbacks, and opportunities for advanced study and practice. Launch Your Classroom! is a multi-platform resource, utilizing books and included instructional videos to equip new teachers with critical information about how to succeed. Our proactive approach will help you set up a classroom network that will support learning and confront problems before they begin.

Do you enjoy swapping ideas with other teachers? Do you find the staffroom is the best place to learn? Do you wish you had time to attend classroom management seminars? The exchange of ideas often allows teachers to fine tune strategies for managing their classrooms by listening to others who have successfully overcome similar challenges. This inspiring collection of advice from award-winning teachers now brings the best of classroom management practice to your classroom. Best Classroom Management Practices for Reaching All Learners compiles strategies, suggestions, tactics, and plans for improving classroom management approaches. By observing the best run classrooms through the eyes of our best teachers, Stone brings us solutions to teachers' everyday questions and issues. learning experiences in today's diverse classrooms by covering such topics as: Building classroom community, working with challenging students, and communicating with parents; Rules, rewards, discipline, silence, and shared responsibilities; Homework, posters, newsletters, and reading groups; Computer labs and classroom technology; Invite Randi Stone and 29 expert educators into your classroom and find a virtual staffroom at your fingertips!

An instructional guide for secondary school interns, student teachers and teachers to-be. A vehicle for evaluation and change for experienced teachers. This clearly written and user-friendly guidebook can be your "launch pad" to mastery in the classroom. The book shows you how to plan the daily lesson, institute classroom rules, use a variety of lesson types, establish and maintain the class record book, develop positive questioning techniques, establish preventive discipline procedures, design meaningful tests, teach across the curriculum and more. This book will inspire confidence in the user! The new teacher will not fear entering his/her classroom the very first time! This book is also a staff development text that will aid staff developers by: training teachers, being cost effective, improving staff morale, diminishing student absenteeism, and setting a positive school tone. Teaching and the Art of Successful Classroom Management will greatly assist an academic or vocational supervisor who seeks to uplift classroom instruction within his/her department. The book is an outstanding supplement for secondary school methods students at the university level. It will reinforce an Education professor's instruction, provide students with the means for meeting complex daily routines in their future classrooms and lay a foundation for new teachers to be "skilled goal achievers".

Launch Your Classroom Engagement! Helps You Achieve Student Investment in Learning. Launch Your Classroom Engagement!: Fostering a Culture of Learning is a foundational handbook for principles of student engagement. In the fourth book of the Launch Your Classroom! Series, we address the key issues regarding engagement and give you proven methods for maintaining a focused classroom. As group work is often a large element in an engaged classroom, we also cover how to organize effective group activities that will contribute to student learning. Some teachers may hesitate to incorporate group work into their lesson plans, often with concerns about student productivity or behavior, but we provide the tools to help you create a successful collaborative learning environment. Launch Your Classroom Engagement!: Fostering a Culture of Learning includes: The neuroscience of engagement Strategies for redirecting student attention Example activities designed to hold interest Systems for creating productive student groups The Launch Your Classroom! Series is designed to offer new teachers ready-to-use, teacher-created resources. We pick up where many teaching orientations leave off, giving you research-based teaching strategies to improve classroom setup, classroom management, student engagement, and more! Going beyond instructional theory, we provide you with relatable examples, sample teaching activities, potential setbacks, and opportunities for advanced study and practice. Launch Your Classroom! is a multi-platform resource, utilizing books and included instructional videos to equip new teachers with critical information about how to succeed. Our proactive approach will help you set up a classroom network that will support learning and confront problems before they begin.'

Writing your next lesson plan? Launch Your Classroom Instruction can help! Launch Your Classroom Instruction!: Planning and Delivering Effective Lessons is an all-inclusive handbook to writing a lesson plan and delivering content to maximize student engagement for all learning styles. Designing meaningful lessons that align with learning objectives is a critical aspect of teaching, and we provide you with all the strategies to encourage active learning in your classroom. In the third book of the Launch Your Classroom! Series, we give you information about current best practices in pedagogy and lesson planning, tips for effectively executing your lessons after you have written them, and guidance on how to use varying assessment strategies to evaluate student learning and implement differentiation successfully. Launch Your Classroom Instruction!: Planning and Delivering Effective Lessons includes:* Components of a lesson plan * Class warm-up exercises * Interactive classroom activities * Sample mental models for students * Active learning techniques The Launch Your Classroom! Series is designed to offer new teachers ready-to-use, teacher-created resources. We pick up where many teaching orientations leave off, giving you research-based teaching strategies to improve classroom setup, classroom management, student engagement, and more! Going beyond instructional theory, we provide you with relatable examples, sample teaching activities, and opportunities for advanced study and practice.Launch Your Classroom! is a multi-platform resource, utilizing books and instructional videos to equip new teachers with critical information about how to succeed. Our proactive approach will help you set up a classroom network that will support learning and confront problems before they begin.