A HUGE part of teaching is classroom management. This, of course, starts with building solid relationships with your students. If this is an area you struggle in, www.smartclassroommanagement.com is a great site that centers around relationships as the foundation for classroom management. Aside from this, organization and daily expectations are vital as well. Students (and the teacher) need to have a routine so that they know what to expect from day to day. When I was in the classroom, students had to be in their seats when the bell rang, and there were always directions on the interactive whiteboard for what they needed to do to get class started. Now they didn't always do this perfectly, but it set the stage for the rest of the class. If students start rowdy and bouncing off the walls, it's hard to get them back. Classroom Screen is an awesome tool - no...toolbox is better - an awesome toolbox to help teachers with this aspect of classroom management. It is a simple concept really, but the creator, teacher Laurens Koppers from the Netherlands, couldn't find a toolbox out there that did what he wanted, so he created his own. Here is a screenshot of a Classroom Screen I created: When you go to classroomscreen.com (and the site recommends using the Chrome browser), you are automatically brought onto your own Classroom Screen. There is no log-in or anything. The downside to this is that it won't save your screen from day to day, but the site maintains that it only takes about 30 seconds to setup your screen, and I can vouch that it is SUPER fast and easy.
Let's look at the toolbox:
I think this toolbox is fantastic. Obviously, you wouldn't want to use all these tools at once on the screen, but with one click you can turn them on and off. If you turn something back on, during that sitting it WILL save your customizations. I turned off the text box with my learning objectives and when I turned it back on, my text was still there!! Some explicit instruction with students on the different features would be necessary, but once all of you get the hang of it, it could be a useful daily toolbox!
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