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Regardless of content, grade or age, classroom management is the foremost concern of teachers. Many things cause problem children, but none can be accepted without an effort to correct them. Once you've made this effort, documented it and notified parents and administration, the next step is to find a better placement for the child. If that's not an option, you'll need the guidance of the millions of other teachers who've faced the same dilemma.
Here is a list of the best sites. They run the gamut from simple to complex, but each of them provides insights from teachers, students, parents and theorists. Alan Haskvitz offers this strategy: "Be consistent, always offer a child an alternative, and use humor."
Try these sites to get started:
REC - Resources for new and experienced teachers
REC - New teachers
Discipline Help: You Can Handle Them All
The most diverse site with both cause and effect help.
Classroom discipline ideas and strategies
Awesome Library -- Bullying
Character Education
Classroom Management
Simple ideas for classroom management and parent involvement
Court
Using a class court system to improve behavior
Creating Standards for Student Behavior
A list of general ideas
Dealing with Bullying
Discipline links
Discipline at Teaching Tips
Some novel discipline ideas from a teacher, but don't forget to check out the home page for more concepts.
Discipline at UEA Central
A large site of good ideas from the United Educators Association
Discipline by Design
Good Behavior Charts
I Can't Wait!
Ideas for dealing with restroom breaks
Information on School Bullies and Victims
A List of Reward Ideas
Rewarding younger children in class
A List of Things One Can Do After Seatwork
Having students create a newspaper of class events for the day is very good. Keep the newspapers and give them to absent students to catch up. Teachers can keep them to augment lesson plans, too, and check to insure learning.
A List of Ways to Encourage Good Behavior
Methods and Practice of Classroom Discipline
An interesting selection, but check the teacher-caused discipline section first.
NEA Discipline Search
Nice Ways to Gain Compliance & Help Kids Develop Self Management of Their Behavior
Very worthwhile reading
Positive Discipline
For younger children
Relational Discipline Strategies
"When a teacher, parent, or paraprofessional engages in a power struggle with a student, the student will always win. While the adult may be able to eventually elicit compliance, the student has controlled the situation."
School Counselors Reflect on What Makes Them Effective
School Discipline
Ways to Catch Kids Being Good
What is a Functional Assessment?
What is your classroom management profile?
You Tattletale!
Dealing with tattletales
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Parent sites
Discipline
Help for parents from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Goodkids: A Basic Parenting Guide
A guide to helping parents improve home discipline
Parenting Skills/Discipline
Check out this site and provide the information to parents who are having problems with their children.
Positive Discipline
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Research sites
Awesome Library Behavior Problems
A link site to research on discipline
Discipline in the Classroom
Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline
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Special Education behavioral help
Adjustments in Classroom Management
For students with learning problems
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