Effective veteran teachers hit the ground running in September and never look back. But ask most of them about their first year or two, and you’ll hear tale after tale of classroom woe. Even some of ...

Document: View the text of a “Contract on Classroom Behavior” that three professors at Western Illinois University ask their students to sign on the first day of ...

This past spring semester I decided to shake things up a bit in one of my courses by tossing some of my routine (and control over the course), right out of the window. I have always advocated for ...

It might be every professor’s worst nightmare: losing control of a class with no hope of getting it back on track. That appears to be what happened this semester at Texas A&M University at Galveston, ...

One of the leading causes of students disengaging, withdrawing, or getting angry is teachers trying to control them. I know this from my days as a control freak new teacher, and I’ve worked with many ...

Keeping track of a classroom full of students, each in front of a computer, is a teaching challenge. Jorge Romero knows that from experience, as school technology coordinator and an information ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study sought to identify dimensions of classroom control derived from factor analysis of selected classroom process variables, to ...

I have spent several days this week visiting elementary schools with my therapy dog. Reading with the kids has been a great pleasure, and hearing their pet stories and sharing their worries has been ...