About this course
Taking our Classroom Management Secrets course will give participants practical advice and step-by-step instructions for devising a classroom management plan that motivates their students to want to behave in the classroom. Among many things, topics will cover important information on how to handle difficult students, how to fuel intrinsic motivation, how to teach routines, and how to be a calmer, more effective teacher.
* You have 4 weeks to complete this course from date of your enrollment.
Classroom Management Secrets Problems Module 1
Creating a Positive Learning Environment
This module gives an overview of The Classroom Management Secret as defined by the author of the textbook. Items of interest include how to create a positive and warm learning environment, the importance of teaching students your classroom management plan, and how to use your personality effectively in order to elicit appropriate student behaviors.
- The Classroom Management Secret
- The Biggest First Day of School You Can Make
- How to Teach Your Classroom Management Plan
- Classroom Management and the Power of Your Personality
- How Your Classroom Environment Can Improve Behavior
Classroom Management Secrets Module 2
How to Manage Difficult Students and Conflicts
This module addresses many issues for coping with difficult students when classroom management plans are not adhered to by the difficult students. It also addresses how to manage student conflicts among each other.
- Why You Need to Draw a Line in the Sand with Difficult Students
- Why You Shouldn't Ask Misbehaving Students to Explain Themselves
- Soul-Searching Things to Say to Difficult Students
- Ways to Build Rapport With Difficult Students
- How to Handle Student Drama
Classroom Management Secrets Module 3
Improving Intrinsic Motivation
This module offers specific strategies with regard to improving intrinsic motivation in students. Some items of interest include student boredom, why micromanaging is not effective, and how to improve student attention.
- Why Reminders Make Classroom Management More Difficult
- Simple ways to Improve Listening
- Things Teachers Do to Cause Boredom
- Ways to Capture Students' Attention
- How to Fuel Your Students' Intrinsic Motivation
Classroom Management Secrets Module 4
Restarting Your Classroom Management Plan
The final module describes how teachers can restart their classroom management plan in the middle of a school year if things are going badly. It gives simple advice on what to do if you have lost control of your classroom. It also encourages teachers to monitor their own personality traits that may impede their classroom management plan.
- What to Do When You Realize You Have Lost Control of Your Classroom
- How to Press the Restart Button on Classroom Management
- Improving Classroom Management By Doing Less
- Why You Should Never, Ever Yell at Students
- Ways to Be a Calmer, More Effective Teacher