1. Ever find yourself feeling like this?

2. Classroom Survival Tips Creating Conditions For Learning

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4. Classroom Survival Tips COMP in a Nutshell Creating a Favorable Climate for Learning Strategies to Engage Students in Learning

5. COMP in a Nutshell Classroom Organization & Management Program : Effective classroom management is proactive, not reactive. In effective classrooms, management and instruction work together. Students are active participants in the learning environment. Teachers working together synergistically help one another.

6. Workable rules & procedures allow a great variety of activities to take place during the school day with minimum confusion and wasted time.

7. Classroom management… “ refers to the actions teachers take to create, implement, and maintain a classroom environment that supports learning” -Carolyn M. Everston

8. Creating a Favorable Climate for Learning Supportive Climate Businesslike Climate Enthusiastic Climate

9. Supportive Climate Model respect and kindness. Be courteous Let children know they are wanted in you’re classroom Show a genuine concern for their well being Greet them warmly when they enter the room Talk calmly. Be assertive but not aggressive –when necessary Teach conflict resolution

10. Business-like Climate Set the tone at the beginning of each period Make sure student know procedures for everything Frequently remind students of rules and expectations Be consistent in all that you do Have clear objectives\ expectations Prepare students for dismissal

11. Enthusiastic Climate Show your enthusiasm for life and learning Create experiences where all students can experience success Incorporate things from their environment into the lesson Actively involve the students Make it meaningful Have a motivational thought of the day Create activities that interest and challenge students

13. Engage Students in Learning The more time students spend actively engaged in learning tasks, the more they achieve and the less they misbehave. -COMP 2007

14. Resources to engage students in learning http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ http://mnpsmath.wikispaces.com/Lesson +Plan+Table http://mnpsmath.wikispaces.com/Lesson +Plan+Table http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dnewby/Din ahZikefoldables.doc http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dnewby/Din ahZikefoldables.doc http://www.stcms.si.edu/stcms.htm

15. rhonda.fielda@mnps.org rhonda.fielda@mnps.org PALS douglas.granier@mnps.org COMP Trainer