A long-standing criticism of PowerPoint is that highly stepwise, linear presentations limit the spontaneity of instruction and interfere with interactions between faculty and students. But that may be ...

In From Discipline to Culturally Responsive Engagement: 45 Classroom Management Strategies (Corwin, 2013) Laura E. Pinto offers an introduction to cultural competency and responsiveness, a primer ...

Educators, administrators and experts say classroom management -- the ability to calmly control student behavior so learning can flourish -- can make or break a teacher’s ability to be successful.

The psychology behind classroom management is rich and varied, and draws from multiple theoretical frameworks that offer insights into how to shape student behavior and create a positive classroom ...

And of the classroom management strategies grounded in research, teacher preparation programs least often teach the one "arguably the most strongly supported" by research: giving praise.

It doesn’t get the attention that curriculums and test scores do, but classroom management — the art and craft of keeping a room full of 20 eight-year-olds, or 35 teenagers, engaged and under control ...

There is also a dark side to these behavior management systems. For the kid who doesn’t earn the stickers, clips down instead of up, or never climbs above the yellow card, these charts can be ...

The only solid piece of “advice” on the topic of classroom management I can recall from my teacher training program was to ignore the old high school teacher rule of thumb to never smile until ...

Kelvin Mazara, a seventh-grader at the Edison School in Union City, N.J., could not have appeared more engrossed in the morning's assignment. He and his classmates had been asked to assemble a ...