MANAGEMENT TIPS FROM THE COLLECTIVE
1. Mutual respect III
2. Build respect
3. Respect: be true to yourself (honesty) – number 1: respect yourself, each other,
the space
 teacher/student &  student/student
4. Be confident in yourself
5. Know your students IIIII
6. Know their home life
7. Knowing how current events impact students
8. Showing interest
9. Awareness of the individuals in the room [Withitness: when the clamour inside
calms, one can begin to attend to what lies beyond]
10. Develop relationships II
11. Foster a safe & trusting environment & relationship
12. Monitor noise levels (playing music) [Adjust excitations levels: your voice; dim
the lights]
13. Clutter-free spaces
14. Set up your expectations
15. High expectations
16. Consistent expectations II
17. Consistency
18. Clear (well-defined) expectations IIIII
19. Clear organizations/expectations  have a track to get back to
20. Structures & routines; Organization III
21. Wording/Approach of rules – Make rules visible & visual
22. Have some rules at the beginning of the class that all are agreed to follow. Follow
through
23. Set boundaries/rules/class norms with students III
24. Class norms – consequences
25. Students involved in their own management  collective enterprise
26. Start by creating safe space & class procedures (organization skills) with students
27. Student contract – signed & posted – accountability
28. Contract with the kids (I’ve “never?” found this to work… too long term for
someone who is at the mercy of the short term… too easy to blame a busy teacher
who is unable to keep track and will feel guilty for missing infractions… too
subject to my mood as a teacher… seems to be more about creating a paper trail
to PROVE what needs doing/is happening)
29. One-on-one discussion of behaviour
30. Ignoring or “the look”
31. Model behaviour & demonstrate respect II
32. Recognizing everyone has good AND bad days
33. Positivity
34. Class norms – really praise & emphasize the positive behaviours! [But not
vacuous praise. Acknowledge that for some students breaking with their
identity… defiant, angry,… is EXTREMELY difficult… and they may not want
praise for it… maybe just a nod… you know, I noticed]
35. Acknowledge positive behaviour
36. External reinforcements [Yes but they don’t need to be carrots.]
37. Engaging classroom activities; be multimodal; interest bank [Flipchart where
students write ideas, questions, interests (tabled for later)… smorgasborg/day] III
38. Varying activities
39. Be prepared & have a back-up
40. Planning
41. Body breaks; Brain breaks II
42. Humour (sarcasm – high school)
43. Music for transitions
44. Grouping desks/classroom set-up conducive to learning [& vary groupings]
45. Not being afraid to explain how you feel to your students and appealing to their
empathy
46. Be authentic & encouraging (not negative)
47. Show students that we all want to learn from each other and we all should be
eager to get ourselves better. Don’t be afraid of mistakes but learn from them.
[Also love the “evil” self in you, the part (in each of us) that is less than we
wish… love the whole child, even those “ugly” secrets s(he) can’t share… Give
ourselves grace. Sometimes in our zeal to describe the good person and to have
our students be such a person, we inadvertently cast out the “bad person” as not
loveable. It’s critical to find a way to love those very parts of ourselves that don’t
quite measure up. Those are the parts that teach us about where we’ve been hurt.
If not attended to, they often end up being the reasons we resist, react, and blame
others and change. Allow mis/takes for their very legitimacy too.]
48. Work alongside parents for student’s benefit [Love parents too, even and
especially when they are less than perfect… because we all are and that IS how it
should be.]
MANAGEMENT ISSUES
* What scares me most?
I’ve done this or known someone who did it.
 I’ve encountered this as a teacher.
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1. Losing control
2. Noise II
3. Focus issues
4. PUBERTY
5. Attitude
6. Entitled students
7. Defiance II
8. Talking back
9. Students that don’t respond to disciplinary action
10. Undermine authority
11. Non-respectful students
12. Technology – students abusing (off topic)
13. Cell phones
14. Chatty Cathy’s
15. Chatty students – mild/constant infractions  distracts others
16. Talking out of turn
17. Not listening
18. Not listening no matter what
19. Students seeking attention/ reactions at any cost II
20. Manipulative students
21. Practical jokes
22. Refusal to participate III
23. Participating on their own terms
24. An off-task/non-engaged student (students not participating)
25. Disinterest
26. Students unengaged & don’t learn
27. Kids who don’t care! Not engaged
28. Sleeping
29. Washroom attendants
30. Flight risk; Kids that walk out; Scream & run out III
31. Poor attendance
32. Late
33. Bros & BFFs  can be positively changed
34. Disruptions II
35. Screaming II
36. Violence/Acting Out III
37. Physical confrontations
38. Student attacks
39. Temper tantrums
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40. Two students misbehaving
41. Inappropriate self-expression  intervention?
42. Bullying (Bullies because I’m ESL)
43. Gossip
44. Anger issues
45. Tattle tales
46. Lies, lying students
47. Language barriers
48. Struggling students
49. Crying
50. Bored students
51. Students that are so far ahead of the material they’re bored
52. Issues at home
53. Students having a bad day/trouble at home
54. Don’t have good student-teacher relationships
55. Don’t believe teacher’s knowledge, so no trust & respect for teacher
56. Being so tough on teaching
57. Having unrealistic expectations
58. Having students of all levels & abilities in same class
59. Disabilities – underfunded
60. Disabilities – undiagnosed
61. Home life
62. Not seeing eye to eye with parents; Teacher-parent struggle II
63. Angry parents
64. Time
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