This week’s question is: What are your suggestions for effective classroom management strategies? At various times, I would imagine that classroom management is a challenge to many of us who teach -- ...

Digital devices now shape daily instruction in K–12 classrooms. Laptops, tablets, and phones support research, collaboration ...

The only solid piece of “advice” on the topic of classroom management I can recall from my teacher training program was to ignore the old high school teacher rule of thumb to never smile until ...

Faculty strive to create learning environments that support respectful dialogue, intellectual risk-taking, and inclusive engagement. Classroom disruptions may interrupt learning spaces, however, and ...

(This is the last post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here.) The new question-of-the-week is: What are your best classroom-management tips? In Part One ...

We write to assure teachers that effective tools for managing students are available. This is important news since it seems that such tools are a bit of a secret (“Teachers colleges need to emphasize ...

During a quiz on plate tectonics, two students whisper in the back of my room. I notice but stay quiet. I have one chance to ...

This article is part of the collection: Going Back to School With the 2016 EdSurge Fifty States Project. I’ve made a promise to myself and my students: I have decided this year that I am making over ...

A rise in harassment and violence against teachers is taking a toll on already-exhausted educators. A recent survey from the American Psychological Association found that 6 in 10 teachers reported ...

It’s almost a truism among educators to say that classroom management is all about relationship management. Learning requires a great deal of vulnerability, and there’s no doubt that educators need to ...

CHICAGO — In my first full-time teaching job, a supervisor disabused me of the classroom-management silliness my teacher-preparation program had drilled into me. A battle-hardened veteran devoid of ...

Ask a new teacher what the hardest part of his job is, and he'll very likely answer, "getting my students to listen to me." There are any number of reasons that classroom management is a challenge.