Classroom Management
Being able to ‘manage’ your classroom – in order to provide a safe and productive learning environment for all learners to learn is a key part of teaching.
Guidelines
- Student safety and risk management (
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Housed on DEECD website - provides details of current policies and procedures relating to excursions including obtaining parental permission, and guidelines that teachers must follow. - Safety Guidelines for Education Outdoors / Forms and Policies
Portals / multiple links
- Classroom management (ACHPER / SA)
Lots of weblinks to sites related to classroom management are provided on this site. You’ll need to consider or define your search in order to make use of these links. Many are American. - Classroom Management (National Education Association)
Highly useful – although you’ll need to search carefully. Provides access to resources about all sorts of aspects of classroom management including how to arrange your classroom, monitoring behaviour, strategies to use at the start of the year, and ways of establishing classroom rules. American. - Sites that Help Classroom Teachers
Useful but you’ll need to search carefully. Lots of links to tips about handling difficult students, developing a discipline plan and anger management. - The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources
Strategies
- Teaching with Bayley
Behaviour management guru John Bayley works with teachers to help them improve their classroom technique (UK) (38 videos in the series) - Better Behaviour Better Learning / Skills for Classroom Management (Queensland Government)(PDF 4 MB)
- Best, Brin. The Secondary Teachers' Pocketbook
- How To Maintain Classroom Discipline - Good And Bad Methods Training Educational Video (YouTube)
- Video Excerpts from "Beyond Discipline: Classroom Management for the Secondary School Teacher" (Columbia University Teachers’ College)
- Secondary NQTs - Classroom Management (teachers tv UK)
Literature
- Hardin, Carlette J. (2008). Effective classroom management: models and strategies for today’s classrooms (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Merrill/Prentice Hall.
- Overall, Lyn. Sangster, Margaret (2003). The secondary teacher's handbook. London New York: Continuum.
- Burgoyne, U.&Hull, O. (2007). Classroom management strategies to address the needs of Sudanese refugee learners www.ncver.edu.au/research/proj/nr5l06.doc Accessed October, 2008.