The Classroom Management Handbook: A Practical Blueprint For Engagement

Perhaps the biggest factor influencing teacher wellbeing and student learning is whether students are calm, focussed, and attentive in the classroom. Despite this, most teachers feel that their teacher training allocated far too little time to the fundamental principles and practical strategies that form the foundation of effective classroom management. In this book, Mark Dowley and Ollie Lovell address this shortfall by revealing 10 principles and 18 routines that will set you up for classroom management success.

The Classroom Management Handbook, is the most concise, scaffolded, and unapologetically practical guide to classroom management available.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction How to use this book Part 1: Ten principles for effective classroom management • Principle 1: Cracking behaviour is cracking a code • Principle 2: The best classroom managers have the best habits • Principle 3: Beginning with high expectations provides more flexibility • Principle 4: Master your own behaviour to influence others • Principle 5: Behaviour is a curriculum, treat it as such • Principle 6: It’s what you say and how you say it • Principle 7: Success is the greatest motivator • Principle 8: Seek out examples of excellence • Principle 9: Students need to know that they belong and you believe in them • Principle 10: Bank positivity Part 2: Scripts • Tools, routines and scripts • Routines for the first lesson with a new class • Routine 1: Entry routine • Routine 2: Defuse debate • Routine 3: Teacher self-regulation • Routine 4: Gaining attention • Routine 5: Tight transitions • Routine 6: After class conversation • Routine 7: Effective instruction (I do) • Routine 8: We do • Routine 9: Monitoring behaviour during independent work • Routine 10: Moving a student • Routine 11: Complex activities • Routine 12: Maintaining engagement to the end of the lesson • Routine 13: Asking a student to pick up rubbish • Routine 14: Addressing a uniform infraction • Routine 15: Addressing rough or inappropriate play • Routine 16: Clearing the yard • Routine 17: Students using technology in an unproductive way • Routine 18: System level support Conclusion Appendices • Appendix 1: Glossary of tools • Appendix 2: Further reading