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site-based management: Organizational structure that decentralizes authority and increases the autonomy of individual schools. Responsibility and accountability are at the school level, and the decision-making process includes teachers, administrators, parents, and community members.
site-based management: Organizational structure that decentralizes authority and increases the autonomy of individual schools. Responsibility and accountability are at the school level, and the decision-making process includes teachers, administrators, parents, and community members.

Classroom arrangement: The physical arrangement of desks in a classroom can have a significant effect on student behavior and the ease of classroom management. This slideshow illustrates four different classroom arrangements with captions explaining the merits of each.; Format: series (multiple pages)

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

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)

Math for multiple intelligences: How a middle-school math teacher realized she was boring and jump-started her career — and her students — by using thematic planning, emphasizing problem solving, and teaching to multiple intelligences.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Problem centered math: Why students must build their own understanding of mathematics if they are to be able to use it in the real world, and how teachers can guide them in doing so.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice: This series of articles, which balance theory, research, and practice, address a variety of topics within differentiation through text, graphics, and video.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Moodle training: Want to teach an online course yourself? Learn the basics of teaching in Moodle, LEARN NC’s course management system, to customize one of our courses for your own classroom.; Format: article/online course

Classroom behavior: In this video, a classroom dramatization illustrates a variety of appropriate and inappropriate behaviors by students and the classroom teacher. Viewers are encouraged to make note of the appropriate and inappropriate behaviors. A follow-up video, "Classroom...; Format: video/video

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.; Format: article; By Kristi Johnson Smith.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.

Classroom routines and procedures: Establishing clear classroom routines and procedures is necessary for ensuring that your classroom runs smoothly.; By Denise Young.

Student presentations in the problem-centered classroom: In Problem centered math, page 2.2; The video clip below shows students presenting their solutions to a math problem. The students worked on the problem in pairs, and several pairs of students used different methods to reach different results. A discussion results among the students as to the...; By Grayson Wheatley.

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

Beginning teacher success: "Beginning Teacher Success" is designed to support beginning teachers with assignments and reading materials to guide and scaffold learning the best teaching practices.; Format: course/online course

Classroom behavior analysis: This video was designed to be viewed as a follow-up to the classroom dramatization "Classroom Behavior." In this piece, Dr. Edward J. Sabornie discusses some of the appropriate and inappropriate behaviors...; Format: video/video

“I am very sorry. It is going to happen again”: In The First Year, page 4.2; Maintain your commitment to classroom organization and management all the way through the end of the year.; Format: article; By Kristi Johnson Smith.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.

Classroom environment: the basics: Your classroom is "home away from home" for you and your students. Make it attractive, comfortable, and functional.; By Denise Young.

Bulletin boards and other displays: Using your bulletin boards as a teaching tool — not just as decoration.; By Denise Young.

Sample classroom floor plans: Basic floor plans and explanations for a traditional classroom, discussions/debates, a horseshoe arrangement, and centers.; By Mitch Katz.

Animation: Vicarious reinforcement: This animated video demonstrates the use of vicarious reinforcement as a classroom behavior management technique. In vicarious reinforcement, a teacher reinforces a student's positive behavior while ignoring the negative behavior of a student seated nearby....; Format: video/animation

Creating a safe space for students to take academic risks: In The First Year, page 1.6; A classroom culture that encourages students to take academic risks starts with the teacher.; Format: article/best practice; By Kristi Johnson Smith.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.

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