ABSTRACT

Co-published with Kappa Delta Pi

The ABCs of Classroom Management equips teachers with a repertoire of expert strategies to develop classroom expectations and manage student behaviors. The second edition of this practical, alphabetical guide includes expansions on time-honored topics such as relationship building, communication, discipline, and behavior management, with the addition of new topics such as cyberbullying, violence prevention, social media, and substitute teachers. The newest quick reference to managing a classroom offers tried-and-true tips and specific examples of practical applications in the classroom. Educators who purchase the second edition also can access ABC’s Online to find downloadable forms, samples and checklists, and links to related resources.

This edition of The ABC’s of Classroom Management gives future and new educators practical and informative tips and tools for managing their classrooms to apply right away so they can focus on student learning. Underlying the nuts-and-bolts entries of the book are the themes of teacher professionalism, leadership, and empowerment. Armed with a proactive attitude and the right tools that are applied purposefully and consistently, novice teachers develop their craft to become masterful educators.

letter A|10 pages

A

chapter A_1|2 pages

About The ABC's of Classroom Management

chapter A_2|1 pages

Absent Students

chapter A_3|1 pages

Accountability for Students

chapter A_4|2 pages

Activity Periods and Specials

chapter A_5|1 pages

Anger Management

chapter A_6|2 pages

Antecedents

chapter A_7|3 pages

Anticipate

chapter A_8|1 pages

Assume Nothing

chapter A_9|2 pages

Attendance

chapter A_10|2 pages

Attention

chapter A_11|1 pages

Attention (How Students Get Yours)

chapter A_12|2 pages

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

chapter A_13|1 pages

Attention Span

letter B|11 pages

B

chapter B_1|1 pages

Baby Steps

chapter B_2|2 pages

Bathroom Breaks

chapter B_3|1 pages

Be Human

chapter B_4|1 pages

Beginning the School Year

chapter B_5|1 pages

Behavior

chapter B_6|1 pages

Behavior Analysis

chapter B_7|2 pages

Behavior Logs

chapter B_8|1 pages

Behavior Management

chapter B_9|2 pages

Best Practices

chapter B_10|2 pages

Body Language

chapter B_11|1 pages

Boundaries

chapter B_12|2 pages

Broken Record Technique

chapter B_13|3 pages

Bulletin Boards

chapter B_14|2 pages

Bullying

chapter B_15|1 pages

Burnout

letter C|13 pages

C

chapter C_1|2 pages

Call-Outs

chapter C_2|1 pages

Capable, Connected, and Contributing

chapter C_3|1 pages

Cartoon Drawing

chapter C_4|1 pages

Cell Phones

chapter C_5|2 pages

Chairs

chapter C_6|1 pages

Cheating

chapter C_7|3 pages

Choices and Consequences

chapter C_8|1 pages

Choices for Learning

chapter C_9|2 pages

Class Meetings

chapter C_10|2 pages

Classroom Climate

chapter C_11|2 pages

Classroom Management Plan

chapter C_12|2 pages

Closet Catastrophes—Prevented

chapter C_13|1 pages

Communication

chapter C_14|2 pages

Contracts

chapter C_15|2 pages

Cooperation vs. Competition

chapter C_16|2 pages

Cultural Differences

chapter C_17|1 pages

Cursing

chapter C_18|1 pages

Custody and Divorce

chapter C_19|1 pages

Cyberbullying

letter D|7 pages

D

chapter D_1|2 pages

Daily Agenda

chapter D_2|1 pages

Daily Task

chapter D_3|2 pages

Defiant Students

chapter D_4|2 pages

Democratic Classroom

chapter D_5|2 pages

Desks

chapter D_6|2 pages

Digital Citizenship

chapter D_7|1 pages

Direct—Don't Ask

chapter D_8|1 pages

Directory Information

chapter D_9|2 pages

Discipline

chapter D_10|1 pages

Dismissals with Dignity

chapter D_11|1 pages

Displays

letter E|5 pages

E

chapter E_1|1 pages

Embarrassing Moments

chapter E_2|2 pages

Emergency Procedures

chapter E_3|2 pages

Energy Issues

chapter E_4|2 pages

Environment

chapter E_5|1 pages

EpiPen®

chapter E_6|1 pages

Exceptional Education Student Resource Time

chapter E_7|2 pages

Excitement

chapter E_8|1 pages

Exercise

chapter E_9|1 pages

Expectations

letter F|5 pages

F

chapter F_1|2 pages

Fairness

chapter F_2|1 pages

Field Trips

chapter F_3|2 pages

Fights

chapter F_4|1 pages

First Day

chapter F_5|1 pages

First-Day Fiasco

chapter F_6|1 pages

Focus on Problem, Not Student

chapter F_7|1 pages

Food

chapter F_8|1 pages

Friending Students

letter G|5 pages

G

chapter G_1|2 pages

Gangs

chapter G_2|1 pages

Goodness

chapter G_3|2 pages

Grade Book and Grades

chapter G_4|1 pages

Grading

chapter G_5|2 pages

Grading Pens

chapter G_6|1 pages

Greetings

chapter G_7|2 pages

Groups

letter H|5 pages

H

chapter H_1|1 pages

Hand Signals

chapter H_2|1 pages

Health

chapter H_3|2 pages

Help Desk

chapter H_4|2 pages

Helpers

chapter H_5|1 pages

Helping Tools

chapter H_6|2 pages

Holidays

chapter H_7|1 pages

Homework

chapter H_8|1 pages

Hot Weather

chapter H_9|1 pages

Humor

letter I|3 pages

I

chapter I_1|1 pages

Ignore Misbehavior

chapter I_2|2 pages

I-Messages

chapter I_3|2 pages

Inattentive Students

chapter I_4|1 pages

In-House Field Trip

chapter I_5|1 pages

Is Fun Allowed?

letter J|3 pages

J

chapter J_1|1 pages

Jellyfish Teachers

chapter J_2|2 pages

Journey

chapter J_3|2 pages

Juggling Paperwork

chapter J_4|1 pages

Justice

letter K|3 pages

K

chapter K_1|2 pages

Keeping Your Cool

chapter K_2|2 pages

Kindness

chapter K_3|1 pages

Kinesthetic

letter L|4 pages

L

chapter L_1|1 pages

Laugh

chapter L_2|1 pages

Library

chapter L_3|1 pages

Location, Location, Location

chapter L_4|1 pages

Lockers

chapter L_5|2 pages

Lounge

chapter L_6|1 pages

Love Teaching

chapter L_7|1 pages

Love Your Students

chapter L_8|1 pages

Lunch Count

chapter L_9|1 pages

Lying

letter M|6 pages

M

chapter M_1|2 pages

Manipulatives

chapter M_2|1 pages

Meetings—Faculty

chapter M_3|1 pages

Mentors

chapter M_4|2 pages

Model Appropriate Behavior

chapter M_5|1 pages

Model Humility

chapter M_6|2 pages

Motivating the Unmotivated

chapter M_7|2 pages

Music to Manage By

letter N|6 pages

N

chapter N_1|1 pages

Names on the Board—Not!

chapter N_2|2 pages

New Students

chapter N_3|1 pages

Newsletters

chapter N_4|1 pages

No Complaining Rule

chapter N_5|2 pages

Noise in the Classroom

chapter N_6|1 pages

Noise that Bothers a Student

chapter N_7|2 pages

Non-Procedural Questions

chapter N_8|1 pages

Notes about Student Progress

chapter N_9|2 pages

Notes Home

chapter N_10|1 pages

Notes to Students

letter O|7 pages

O

chapter O_1|2 pages

Observations

chapter O_2|1 pages

Office Referrals

chapter O_3|1 pages

One Size Does Not Fit All

chapter O_4|2 pages

Open House

chapter O_5|4 pages

Organization

chapter O_6|1 pages

Outcasts

letter P|14 pages

P

chapter P_1|1 pages

Page Numbers

chapter P_2|4 pages

Parents

chapter P_3|2 pages

Parent-Teacher Conferences

chapter P_4|1 pages

Patience

chapter P_5|2 pages

Pencil Sharpening

chapter P_6|1 pages

Photos

chapter P_7|1 pages

Playground Preparedness Bag

chapter P_8|1 pages

Positives vs. Negatives

chapter P_9|1 pages

Poster Power

chapter P_10|2 pages

Power Struggles

chapter P_11|1 pages

Practice

chapter P_12|2 pages

Praise

chapter P_13|1 pages

Preventative Measures

chapter P_14|2 pages

Principles for Dealing with Principals

chapter P_15|2 pages

Prioritizing

chapter P_16|1 pages

Problem Solving 101

chapter P_17|3 pages

Procedures Pave the Way

chapter P_18|1 pages

Professional Attire

chapter P_19|1 pages

Project-Based Learning (PBL)

chapter P_20|1 pages

Propinquity

chapter P_21|1 pages

Proximity

letter Q|3 pages

Q

chapter Q_1|2 pages

Questions

chapter Q_2|2 pages

Quick-Access Spreadsheet

chapter Q_3|1 pages

Quick-and-Easy Attention Grabbers

letter R|8 pages

R

chapter R_1|1 pages

Raising Hands

chapter R_2|2 pages

Reality Check

chapter R_3|1 pages

Recess

chapter R_4|2 pages

Record Keeping

chapter R_5|1 pages

Referrals

chapter R_6|1 pages

Reflection

chapter R_7|3 pages

Relationship Building

chapter R_8|2 pages

Rewarding Positive Behavior

chapter R_9|1 pages

Role Model

chapter R_10|1 pages

Routines

chapter R_11|1 pages

Rules

letter S|7 pages

S

chapter S_1|1 pages

Sarcasm

chapter S_2|1 pages

Seating Arrangements

chapter S_3|1 pages

Seating Charts

chapter S_4|1 pages

Security

chapter S_5|1 pages

Shopping

chapter S_6|1 pages

Slant

chapter S_7|2 pages

Sleep

chapter S_8|1 pages

Social Media

chapter S_9|1 pages

Sounds of Language

chapter S_10|2 pages

Stealing

chapter S_11|2 pages

Student Jobs

chapter S_12|1 pages

Student Responses

chapter S_13|2 pages

Students with Special Needs

chapter S_14|1 pages

Substitute Teachers

chapter S_15|1 pages

Supplies

letter T|9 pages

T

chapter T_1|3 pages

Take Time to …

chapter T_2|2 pages

Tattling

chapter T_3|1 pages

Teacher Look

chapter T_4|1 pages

Teapot Syndrome

chapter T_5|2 pages

Teasing and Taunting

chapter T_6|1 pages

Telephone

chapter T_7|2 pages

Testing

chapter T_8|1 pages

Textbooks

chapter T_9|2 pages

Time-on-Task Study

chapter T_10|1 pages

Time-Out

chapter T_11|3 pages

Time-Savers

chapter T_12|1 pages

Transitions

letter U|1 pages

U

chapter U_1|1 pages

Undesirable Behaviors

chapter U_2|1 pages

Unresponsive Parents

chapter U_3|1 pages

Using Resources

letter V|4 pages

V

chapter V_1|1 pages

Victim and Victimizer

chapter V_2|2 pages

Violence

chapter V_3|2 pages

Violence Prevention

chapter V_4|2 pages

Voice

chapter V_5|1 pages

Volunteers

letter W|4 pages

W

chapter W_1|1 pages

Water

chapter W_2|1 pages

Websites for Your Classroom

chapter W_3|1 pages

Websites with Wisdom

chapter W_4|1 pages

Weekly Folder

chapter W_5|2 pages

Wellness

chapter W_6|2 pages

Whole Class Attention

chapter W_7|1 pages

Withitness

chapter W_8|1 pages

Work by Students

letter X|1 pages

X

chapter X_1|1 pages

X-amine Your Bias

chapter X_2|1 pages

X-pect to Be Tested

chapter X_3|1 pages

X-tra Efforts Pay Off

letter Y|1 pages

Y

chapter Y_1|1 pages

Y Is a Good Question

chapter Y_2|1 pages

Yelling

chapter Y_3|1 pages

You Can Do It!

chapter Y_4|1 pages

“You” Statements

letter Z|3 pages

Z

chapter Z_1|1 pages

Zest

chapter Z_2|2 pages

Zingers

chapter Z_3|1 pages

Zone