Created by Ed Fox SAIS New Teacher Institute 2014

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