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The First Year: Essays on the author's experiences in her first year of teaching: the mistakes she made, what she learned from them, and how she used them to become a better teacher — and how other first-year teachers can, too.; Format: book (multiple pages)

Conflict resolution/Self-discipline: Students will define the character trait self-discipline by listening to the story Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes. They will then learn a 3R strategy: Retreat, Rethink, and React, in order to handle conflicts. This strategy can be applied to the events in this story.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)

The Shark Net: A discipline database: The Shark Net is a database, set up by the teacher, where students keep records of all discipline interactions, of leaving the room, and of outstanding work. It includes fields for first name, last name, date, block, problem code, comments by students, time out, and time in. At two-week intervals students filter their records to calculate class participation grades. The class participation grade counts 10 percent of the total class grade. Students with the highest-class participation grades are rewarded with special activities such as ice cream parties, cookouts, field trips, etc. Students are required to filter and print the report for progress reports, report cards, and any time a parent/teacher or student/teacher conference is planned. This activity helps the teacher keep an accurate discipline record and to maintain discipline with minimal effort. It also helps the students understand how to use a database.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills and Guidance); By Calvin Evans.

Getting to know them: In The First Year, page 1.5; Getting to know your students as real people makes your classroom a more effective learning environment.; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

Discipline log: A log of student behaviors and consequences. Especially useful during conferences with parents or administrators about student behavior.; Format: document

Animal movements: Students will move like the animal they hear described in the music.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Dance Arts Education and Music Education); By Jo James.

James and the Giant Pencil: Lessons in classroom management: In The First Year, page 2.7; Don't back your students into a corner, and don't make discipline the focus of your class.; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

Templates to help you with paperwork: In The First Year, page 1.2; Templates for a parent contact log, discipline log, multipurpose log, sub plan, in-school-suspension plan, IEP notebook, grade book, and locker log.; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

Planned ignoring: This lesson introduces a part of a behavioral intervention plan which I have found to be indispensable across all subject areas with students with behavioral disablilties. It teaches specific behaviors that children need to display in order to remain on task when others around them "act out" and are disruptive.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance); By Rita Lawrence.

Seeds of change: This lesson plan offers middle school students an overview of the physical and emotional changes of adolescence. Students will explore emotions experienced each day and how these emotions can impact behavior. Students will examine their school behaviors and identify ways to change negative behaviors into positive behaviors.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance)

Classroom management: A guide to LEARN NC's collections, designed especially for new teachers.; Format: bibliography/help

New Teacher Support: Ok, so it's not all fun and games. Now what? When you decided to become a teacher, what did you think about? If you're like most people, you thought about making a difference in children's lives, about helping them learn, making them think, "touching...; Format: article/help

When teachers don't understand: Teaching should be informed not only by the content of the discipline but also by the lives of the students.; By Bobby Hobgood.

Creating community in the classroom: Part 3 (monitoring progress): This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students applied knowledge of the goal-setting process and cooperatively created a plan to work on short-term group goals. In part 3, students will monitor the effects of their plan by determining whether short term goals are being achieved.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance); By Pat Nystrom.

Our students: Not just ours, and not just students: In The First Year, page 3.7; Often, your difficulties with students will have nothing to do with your actions, your classroom management, or your school.; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

Balancing order and learning in classroom discussions: In The First Year, page 3.6; Different learning objectives require different rules for student participation. Make your expectations for each day's class clear to students — and to yourself!; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

Creating community in the classroom: Part 4 (rewarding improvement): The fourth lesson in a series on improving classroom learning climate, this lesson provides an opportunity to evaluate student progress and to provide positive reinforcement for improvements in behavior. Using a one to ten continuum, students will subjectively evaluate class progress on the ten adjectives listed as class climate goals. After this process, students will publicly recognize those classmates who have helped the class improve or who have personally improved.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance); By Pat Nystrom.

Creating community in the classroom: Part 2 (cooperative planning): This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students will apply knowledge of the goal-setting process by cooperatively creating a plan to work on group goals.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance); By Pat Nystrom.

Student life at UNC: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.7; Excerpts from minutes of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, 1802, setting costs for attending the university and establishing rules for student behavior. Includes historical commentary.

Bloom's Taxonomy: Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification system developed in 1956 by education psychologist Benjamin Bloom to categorize intellectual skills and behavior important to learning. Bloom identified six cognitive levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis,...; Format: article; By Heather Coffey.

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