A Practical Approach to Management and Discipline: Starting the Year with Proactive Classroom Management Strategies, Grades 6-12

This video-based professional development course demonstrates how to engage middle and high school students in a well-managed, highly productive first day of class; establish key classroom routines to maximize daily learning, and implement proactive strategies and techniques that create positive classroom environments and minimize misbehavior.

Secondary teachers prevent many behavior problems and set a positive, productive tone for the school year in the way they establish classroom management routines and clarify expectations at the beginning of the school year.

You will learn how to:

Make best use of the first day of class to set a positive tone and establish high expectations for student attitudes and behaviors
Establish and reinforce management routines and procedures to gain more time for teaching and learning
Initiate positive relationships with students using simple, straightforward strategies
Clearly communicate classroom rules in ways that increase student cooperation and compliance
Minimize conflicts between students by establishing a cooperative, learning-focused classroom environment