World-class archer Kristin Braun practices six hours a day trying to do the impossible.
Standing 230 feet from her target, she takes a deep breath and, while simultaneously lifting her bow into place, draws a steel-tipped carbon arrow.
She peers over her left hand, taking aim by lining up the target’s bulls eye with the tiny pin [...]
If you’re looking for elaborate or decorative classroom management ideas, you won’t find them here.
Though prevalent, such ideas are unnecessary, even counterproductive, for classroom management.
On this site, we’re focused on only two things:
1. What works best.
2. What is simplest for you.
The goal of classroom management is to eliminate distractions, disruptions, and poor behavior, [...]
A couple of years ago, I went back to my college alma mater for homecoming weekend. I met up with a few buddies on Thursday evening, and we spent the next day touring our old haunts. It was a great time reliving the past and needling each other like it was yesterday.
On Saturday, we decided [...]
In his seminal book, The Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell describes the precipitous fall of crime in New York City in the early 1990’s. There were several factors that accounted for the drop, but the most interesting from a classroom management standpoint, and perhaps the most influential, was called the broken windows theory.
The broken windows [...]
Confidence is an important trait in a teacher, but so is humility. Although I don’t subscribe to the belief that a teacher never truly arrives or can never reach a high level of excellence, I do believe in the continual need to be self-aware of one’s mistakes and open to new ideas. A dose of [...]
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