Supports for Classroom Environment involve understanding behaviour and relationships:
From the PRSD Offering: Integrating Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports (PBIS) with Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (CPI)
- Positive Relationships
- Environment
- Differentiated Instruction:
- Making a Difference: Alberta Education - A resource with an Alberta context for differentiated instruction, and information and strategies for implementing differentiated instructional practices.
- Carol Ann Tomlinson Fulfilling the Promise of Differentiation - list of books on website for support in planning and instruction
- Behaviour Expectations
- Social Skills Instruction
- Carol Gray's Website - Writing effective Social Stories
- Carol Gray: What are Social Stories Video
- Positive Reinforcement
- Fair and Predictable Consequences
- Collaboration and Supports
- In Schools - Collaborative Leadership
- In Classrooms - Administrative and Collegial Supports
- For Individuals - Collaborative Teamwork and a Wraparound Process
- Data-driven decision making
- Action Plan
- Functional Behaviour Assessment Plan
- Writing a Behavioural Support Plan based on a Functional Behaviour Assessment
- PRSD Behaviour Support Plan
- Behaviour Support Plan Alberta Education Sample
- From Functional Behaviour Assessment to the Behaviour Support Plan - Trainer's Module
- Tips for Parents: Participating in Behaviour Support Planning for your Child
On School Culture and Classroom Culture Building
Anthony Muhammad Transforming School Culture
Webinar: Total Participation Techniques
Help all students demonstrate active participation and cognitive engagement in whatever you’re teaching by embedding Total Participation Techniques (TPTs) in your lessons. Based on their ASCD book, Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele will walk you through the why and the how of these essential classroom techniques. Reflecting on their work in K–12 classrooms, the Himmeles will provide photos and descriptions of TPTs being used in classrooms, background on how to use TPTs to support students in their development of higher-order thinking skills, and a model for cognitive engagement that you can use for planning, peer coaching, and leading.
Website: School Improvement: Classroom Management Strategy of the Week
School Improvement Network is an online professional development and teacher training company that partners with schools, districts, and educators throughout the United States, Canada, and overseas to increase student achievement.
Classroom Simulator: http://simulator.cte.jhu.edu/simulations/10#!/scene/46 To create a learning environment that minimizes threats and distractions and promotes student learning, examine this classroom for ideas.
Sustaining Strong Classroom Culture: Includes a webinar/chat link and videos to support your thinking on this topic. https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2015/03/20/sustaining-strong-classroom-culture/?utm_source=newsletter20150321
Building a Culture of Learning: It's not too late! Strengthen or re-energize your classroom culture with these three principles: click here: Teaching Channel
Web Newsletter: Effective Teaching at www.teaching.net
Harry and Rosemary Wong - authors of The First Day and Beyond provide constant and vigilant advice and tips on ever improving the deeply complex task of effective teaching. You will find testimonials from teachers as well as archived issues here.
Social Network: Classroom Management - Edutopia Community
Whether you're a first-year teacher or a seasoned pro, effective classroom management is a critical piece of any successful classroom. Share what works. Join the Group
Webinar: Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom - ASCD
The prospect of “managing” a classroom of young learners is daunting to most teachers at the outset of their careers. Over time, most teachers become at least somewhat more comfortable with “managing” students. Nonetheless, “classroom management” remains a key impediment to using differentiated instruction for many, if not most, teachers both veteran and novice. This webinar explored three critical questions that may inhibit teacher confidence in establishing classrooms that are flexible enough to attend to the range of learning needs of students in those classrooms.
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What is the difference between leading students and managing them?
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What are some steps in effectively leading students?
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What are some strategies for managing the details required for effective and efficient differentiation?
Watch this webinar as a way of reflecting on your own classroom or classrooms in your school or district, and to strengthen your understanding of what it means to be both leader and a manager in a setting designed to address the learning needs of all students in the classroom.
Webinar: Motivating Students to Achieve - Dr. Judy Willis
(July 20, 2010) Some students come to us already discouraged with negative baggage about their own potential, school in general, or the subjects we teach. How can we change that negativity to motivation? The keys are to connect with their curiosity; help them recognize incremental progress to appropriately achievable individualized challenge; and use other neuro-logical strategies to reverse negativity and sustain a positive attitude by increasing interest, relevance, confidence, foundational knowledge, and active participation in a climate where students are not stressed by the fear of mistakes. Dr. Judy Willis, a board-certified neurologist and middle school teacher in Santa Barbara, Calif., has combined her training in neuroscience and neuroimaging with her teacher education training and years of classroom experience. She has become an authority in the field of learning-centered brain research and classroom strategies derived from this research. Handouts (PDF)
Webinar: Ask Dr. Judy: Why Don't My Students Pay Attention?
(May 11, 2010) You've made lesson plans with objectives, assessments, and learning style accommodations. You already know and probably use the most neuro-logical strategies, but some students just don’t seem to pay attention. This webinar examined the use of curiosity and prediction to maximize and maintain attention. Handouts (PDF)
Recommended Resources:
Book: The Advantage:Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in a Business
Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. Referred to on ATA PD Day 2015.
Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A leadership fable - effective and instructional.
Book: Developing Self-regulated Learners: Beyond Achievement to Self-Efficacy
Barry J. Zimmerman, Sebatian Bonner, and Rober Kovach American Psychological Association 1996
Ultimately we want our students to self-monitor and be self-motivated. This book will explain how to help students truly become life-long learners. This great resource is enhanced by the website Learning and the Adolescent Mind - this site includes Barry Zimmerman's work as well as links to Carol Dweck (Mindset, 2006) and more. There are tools, ideas, practices and the people at the center of the study of learning and the adolescent. Includes links to the Everyone Graduates project.
Website: Teachers Love Smartboards
This website is hosted (and was created) by James Hollis, a teacher who wants to help teachers find quality resources to use on the Smartboard in their classrooms.
Article: How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class
When students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation. Edutopia.org