Classroom Management Secrets

Classroom Management Secrets Problems Module 1
Creating a Positive Learning Environment

This module gives an overview of “The Classroom Management Secret” as defined by the author of the textbook.  Items of interest include how to create a positive and warm learning environment, the importance of teaching students your classroom management plan, and how to use your personality effectively in order to elicit appropriate student behaviors.

• The Classroom Management Secret
• The Biggest First Day of School You Can Make
• How to Teach Your Classroom Management Plan
• Classroom Management and the Power of Your Personality
• How Your Classroom Environment Can Improve Behavior

Classroom Management Secrets Module 2
How to Manage Difficult Students and Conflicts

This module addresses many issues for coping with difficult students when classroom management plans are not adhered to by the difficult students.  It also addresses how to manage student conflicts among each other.

• Why You Need to Draw a Line in the Sand with Difficult Students
• Why You Shouldn’t Ask Misbehaving Students to Explain Themselves
• Soul-Searching Things to Say to Difficult Students
• Ways to Build Rapport With Difficult Students
• How to Handle Student Drama

Classroom Management Secrets Module 3
Improving Intrinsic Motivation                                                          

This module offers specific strategies with regard to improving intrinsic motivation in students.  Some items of interest include student boredom, why micromanaging is not effective, and how to improve student attention.

• Why Reminders Make Classroom Management More Difficult
• Simple ways to Improve Listening
• Things Teachers Do to Cause Boredom
• Ways to Capture Students’ Attention
• How to Fuel Your Students’ Intrinsic Motivation

Classroom Management Secrets Module 4
Restarting Your Classroom Management Plan

The final module describes how teachers can “restart” their classroom management plan in the middle of a school year if things are going badly.  It gives simple advice on what to do if you have lost control of your classroom.  It also encourages teachers to monitor their own personality traits that may impede their classroom management plan.

• What to Do When You Realize You Have Lost Control of Your Classroom
• How to Press the “Restart” Button on Classroom Management
• Improving Classroom Management By Doing Less
• Why You Should Never, Ever Yell at Students
• Ways to Be a Calmer, More Effective Teacher