Classroom Management

CLASSROOM JOBS & MOBY DICK

By |2025-07-04T16:02:34-06:00July 4th, 2025|

Classroom jobs let you do your job. In Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick there is a short chapter entitled The Dart that correlates with teachers' need to assign classroom jobs. The chapter talks about the role of the harpooner on a whale hunt. The role of the teacher in the classroom [...]

MUY BIEN Y MÁS: Praise and Encouragement in Spanish

By |2024-08-06T15:33:09-06:00August 6th, 2024|

(Download this as a pdf here.) Showing approval and giving positive feedback are important skills for teachers. Students cannot get too much praise. It is a way to engage and connect that is often overlooked. Students also need to learn how to praise and encourage one another. There is [...]

EVERYBODY DEALS WITH THESE ISSUES…

By |2022-09-19T06:31:29-06:00September 19th, 2022|

A coaching client asks: How to handle a kid wanting to go to the bathroom/nurse to avoid a game or interactive activity in class? FVR- How do you manage to keep the books organized so that kids can find their books the next time they go to read them? [...]

ON STUDENT SELF-ASSESSMENT

By |2025-04-21T19:25:20-06:00March 13th, 2022|

Sarah, a Spanish teacher who has been using some of our self-assessment tools for students (such as the Independent Reading Rubric, the Interpersonal Communication Self-Assessment, this Higher Level Thinking Assessment Example, and this Higher Level Thinking Book Report Example) writes: . Hi Bryce, Do you put the self assessment [...]

PANDEMIC-INDUCED ADHD (Re-published)

By |2022-01-21T16:46:54-07:00January 21st, 2022|

Many teachers have been struggling with my pandemic-influenced kids who not only aren’t getting the input they need but are distracting other students. Most of the class is smiling/laughing/engaged… so the compelling aspect may not be the problem… but some students just won't pay attention long enough to give [...]

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