Helpful Sites for
Classroom Management &
Organization
| http://www.uvm.edu/~jm |
Joyce has assembled a variety of resources including CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT ideas, techniques, and perspective pieces. A fine and limited collection of articles. |
| http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/index.html | An absolutely fabulous resource on lessons involving collaboration among the learners. Most of these are able to be made rich with a little imagination and knowledge of what the multiple abilities are all about. k-12. All content areas. |
| http://www.disciplinehelp.com |
173 different MISBEHAVIORS and suggested interventions. Connected to Cooperative Discipline theory and practice. |
| http://www.tolerance.org | Teaching Tolerance is the award winning website of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Look for important links for multicultural understanding, fighting hate crimes, issues of peace and justice. Link to the Civil Rights Memorial and the stories of civil rights martyrs. |
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http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ |
Go no further. Links to information helpful to students, teachers, and parents. LESSONS, PUZZLEMAKER, and teachers resources available. Amazing assessment links - rubrics for vast areas of student activity, rubric makers. |
| http://www.positivediscipline.com/ |
Home page for a national group that works with the ideas of POSITIVE DISCIPLINE. Great suggestions for teachers and parents. |
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http://lauracandler.com |
Okay, Go no further now. Another teacher site with a focus on literacy, LITERATURE CIRCLES, and COOPERATIVE GROUPING. Includes very helpful downloadable resources for above. |
| http://www.planetesme.com/ |
"Are you a first-year teacher? Are you a school librarian? Do you like to use THEMES in your teaching? Do you like to READ ALOUD? Are you a parent? Are you a BOOK LOVER? Are you a FUN lover?" |
| http://www.honorlevel.com/techniques.html |
Eleven helpful ways you as a teacher can cut down on the DISCIPLINE issues in your classroom. Comes from an organization known as Honor Discipline. You'll recognize these ideas. |
| http://www.kagancooplearn.com/ |
Spencer Kagan is a leading advocate for COOPERATIVE LEARNING environments. This is his website and you will find numerous tips and points of view that will advance the cause of CL in your classroom. |
| http://www.clcrc.com/pages/conflict.html |
David and Roger Johnson and their sister Emily Holubec have led the development of CL strategies for years. This site is particularly useful with respect to CONFLICT RESOLUTION and knowing how to do it in your classroom. |
| http://www.esrmetro.org/whatsnew.html#news |
Responding to children re the WTC TRAGEDY. This page from Educators for Social Responsibility contains very insightful and specific suggestions for teachers. |
| http://www.thirteen.org/teach/tips.html#teachers |
Another page with massive numbers of resources concerning the events in NYC and Washington. Help for parents and teachers. Includes links to other sites. |
| http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/library/tolerance.htm |
Superb collection of sites and resources related to diversy, cultural understanding, CONFLICT MANAGEMENT, including lesson plans focused on diversity in the classroom. From the National Center for Bilingual Education. |
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http://www.adl.org |
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE. Site includes excellent resources to support teachers, parents, and children in work having to do with PREJUDICE, BIAS, and DISCRIMINATION. An expecially helpful guide for working with children in a CLASSROOM MEETING format . Specific lessons linked to confronting hate. |