Smart Classroom Management
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Learn our simple and effective classroom management strategies and transform your students into the well-behaved class you want. I'm Michael Linsin, the founder of Smart Classroom Management. SCM offers simply effective classroom management tips, strategies, and solutions.
Smart Classroom Management
1d ago
I know full well the opposing arguments. It’s outdated. It’s subjective. It’s discriminatory. It’s discouraging. It’s culture-denying. But with the right touch and spirit of compassion, you’re helping your students immensely by encouraging clear and universally understood spoken language. Here’s why: It gives them ... Read more
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Smart Classroom Management
6d ago
Here at SCM we talk a lot about the importance of letting your classroom management plan do the work of improving behavior for you. About how this approach . . . Saves time. Lowers stress. Builds rapport. Embodies fairness. Engenders trust. Inspires respect. It’s ... Read more
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Smart Classroom Management
3w ago
This time of year things tend to get sloppy. Students are feeling the lazy pangs of summer approaching. It’s in the tea, the daily grind, and the changing weather. Left alone, this feeling will morph into poorer and poorer performance. Only you can do ... Read more
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Smart Classroom Management
1M ago
The jettisoning of firm consequences in favor of a purely restorative approach has caused more dangerous behavior among students. It’s like nothing I’ve seen in 30+ years of teaching. Nowadays, a student can fight, bully, torment, throw chairs, and threaten a teacher without being ... Read more
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Smart Classroom Management
1M ago
Well, it isn’t trickery. It isn’t manipulation, bribery, or intimidation. It isn’t lecturing or one-on-one counseling. It isn’t rewards or tokens, threats or “caught being good.” Although these and other common methods can dampen misbehavior temporarily, they don’t actually change it. In fact, they ... Read more
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Smart Classroom Management
2M ago
Have you heard of pressure passes? They’re slips of red or yellow paper that allow difficult students to leave your classroom anytime they like. Yep, they just flash you the pass and then walk out. They’re all the rage among counselors and administrators, who ... Read more
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Smart Classroom Management
2M ago
Your classroom management plan is a small part of effective classroom management. It’s critical and absolutely mandatory, but by itself won’t get you very far. It’s the rest of it, primarily what SCM is about, that makes the plan go. A common refrain here ... Read more
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Smart Classroom Management
2M ago
If you stress over the possibility of misbehavior, then it’s a sign your classroom management is in need of an overhaul. You see, when you take on, mentally or otherwise, even an ant’s toe of what should be your students’ burden, you ease the ... Read more
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Smart Classroom Management
2M ago
Redirection as a classroom management strategy is common, accepted, and wholly uncontroversial. Touted from Baja to the Canadian Rockies and circumnavigating the civilized world, it’s recommended de rigueur without a second thought. “Just redirect” they say, so easy and breezy. It rolls off the ... Read more
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Smart Classroom Management
3M ago
Typically, when I walk a class across campus I let them do so without my input. With as much independence as possible. It’s something I begin teaching on the first day of school and then slowly release to them as the days and weeks ... Read more
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