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Ice Breakers. The bane of a teacher's existence during the first week of school. You have a bazillion things to cross of your list to get ready, you meet with your team, and you discuss which ice breakers you want to incorporate during the first week. What did we do last year? Do you remember? Those are frequent questions tossed around in this first meeting of teachers who still are transitioning from summer to school mode.

Try these 10 Back to School Ice Breakers that your students will love! These activities cover different areas of thought, so students do not feel like they are repeating the same information with each ice breaker. Students have fun, they get to know each other, you get to know them, AND you save time to cross other things off your list. It's a win-win for everyone!

Two Truths and a Lie is one of my favorite back to school activities! It's always so fun, even as a teacher, to try to guess which statement is the lie. You can really find out some interesting tidbits about your students with this one. You can also use this activity with clickers to have students vote on which statement they believe was the lie.

Would You Rather... can be conducted by having students get up and move to different sides of the room based on what they would rather do in each scenario. This allows students to really visualize how many would pick one choice over the other. The best part of this activity is the classroom discussion that will be generated.

My No Good, Very Bad Day is a spin on the classic Skittles Ice Breaker. The student shares one of the worst experiences he/she has had based on the color of the Skittle. Students can share in small groups rather than in front of the entire class to make even the quietest student more comfortable.

This Fear Factor Ice Breaker is a 4-Corner Activity. Students are presented with different phobias in the form of the "Are you afraid of.." question. Students then vote on how afraid (or not afraid) they are of the various things by moving to the different corners of the room.

The Marshmallow Challenge is a fantastic team builder that is great for any subject area or age group even though this is a STEM activity. This activity does require some prep ahead of time, but it is so worth it! Read more about this activity on this blog post.

Super Sleuths can be differentiated based on the grade level. Students write down three personal characteristic clues that their peers could use to identify them. Younger students can write down more obvious clues (color of shirt) while older students can be more detailed (freckle on my left cheek). Shuffle the cards and allow students to be detectives to determine who matches the clues!

What Would You Do is another take on the classic Skittles Ice Breaker. This time, students are asked to share what they would do in different situations - say, for example, if they were president. This is a more introspective ice breaker that really encourages students to think!

Have You Ever? is an interactive game where students are presented with a range of questions - from common experiences to create bonds among students to uncommon to allow students to stand out and create discussion. Students move to one side of the room or the other based on if they have or have never experienced the proposed scenario.

Find Someone Who... allows students to mingle with each other around the room to find people who fit each experience. It's always fun to see who can gather the most signatures on their sheet or completes the entire sheet the fastest.

My Favorite Things is an ice breaker that uses M&Ms. Students pick out three differently colored M&Ms that they will eventually find out corresponds to a favorite thing prompt. Students can share aloud in small groups or as a whole class.

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Almost every teacher does it.

But is it effective?

Is it effective to stop your lesson and wait on students who are talking?

Well, yes and no.

While it's true that the strategy can help get wayward students back on track, it does little to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

Thus, teachers who use the strategy find themselves using it a lot.

They also find that over time it loses its effectiveness.

What may take just a few seconds of waiting in September takes nearly a minute in November.

By January, it may not work at all.

So does this mean you should throw it out altogether?

By no means. In fact, done in a certain way, the strategy can be very effective. So much so that it grows stronger with time-until you no longer have to use it.

The key is to pair the strategy with a clear and direct response.

The way it works is that once your students notice you waiting, once they stop talking and look at you, you're going to take action.

At this point, however, the strategy splits into two different responses, or modes of action, depending on the number of students involved.

If you had been waiting on just a few students to stop talking, say less than four or five, then you would follow your delay with whatever consequence is called for under the guidelines of your classroom management plan.

" John, Karla, Anthony, and Abigail, you each have a warning for breaking rule number two."

When followed by a consequence, waiting shines a light on the misbehavior. It further clarifies what isn't okay and sends the message that learning is sacred.

So sacred that you refuse to go on if it's being tainted by interruption. Further, it shows that protecting the right of every student to learn and enjoy school without interference is your number one priority.

Enforcing a consequence takes just a few seconds, and you don't have to say another word. You can then continue with your lesson as if nothing happened.

If, however, more than a few students are talking during your lesson, then it's a sign that you're either on the cusp of losing control of your class or you're already there.

In this case, the response is to cancel your lesson entirely and reteach your expectations-as well as the applicable rule.

Because, either you weren't clear and detailed enough when you first taught and modeled how you want them to behave during lessons or you haven't been consistently holding them accountable.

So, along with reteaching what is expected, you must recommit yourself to following your plan as it's written. Otherwise, interruptions will be an every lesson occurrence.

It's important to note that it's either/or nearly 100% of the time.

In other words, because of the dynamics of classroom management and student behavior, it's typically either just a small few who are talking or it's most of the class.

We'll be sure to unpack why this is true in a future article. In the meantime, just know that if it's just a few, it's on them, and accountability is your answer.

More than a few, however, is on you, and a sign you must reteach and recommit.

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I've taught high school for 15 years. However, I vividly remember the tremendous struggles I had my first years teaching. Classroom management was not something that came naturally to me. It takes every teacher a few years to find their footing and feel comfortable leading a classroom.

Here's my best classroom management advice for high school teachers. I broke it down into 9 simple reminders that I think can help any secondary teacher have great classroom management.

1) Know Your Kids

First and foremost, you need to learn your students' names as soon as possible. This is a way to make an immediate connection and show right away that you care about them as people. There are teachers in October who are still learning names. Don't be like that!

There are several great ways to learn names quickly and I promise you they're worth the effort. If you can greet each student by name at your door on Day 2 (or even as they leave on Day 1), it will have an immense impact toward limiting problems throughout the year.

Here's a few ways to make the name-learning process easier:

A seating chart - simple & still as effective as always

Name tents on desks - students can create these on the first day and decorate them. The visuals will help you to connect each face & name.

Introductions - have each student introduce themselves and say facts about them. You can make it fun by passing around toilet paper and telling students to take as many squares as they like. When it gets all the way around, they have to give a fact for each square. You can also do M&Ms and each color goes with an ice-breaker question.

Attendance software - if your school has a software with student pictures, use them to quiz yourself at night

Selfies - If you have devices in the room, have students take selfies holding up their names. I like to use some historical props I've collected over the years to make it fun. I do stations on Day 1 and make this one of them!

2) Procedures Prevent Problems

You probably heard this over and over in your education classes. That's because it's true! Routines allow students to know what's going on and get right to work.

Then, at the beginning of the year I'll set expectations about how we transition between activities, where backpacks go (not in the aisles!), how they can use the restroom/get water, how to turn in papers, how to exit class, etc. Many of these are up to your personal preference as the teacher, but if the students know the routine, it makes class so much simpler throughout the school year.

3) ...But Then Mix It Up

Once you have your routines down and progress through the year, there is a tendency for things to get stale. Those same routines that made life easy in September and October can start to feel boring.

4) Anything You Can Do Before Class, Do Before Class!

This is one I learned over time and is especially important if you're using any technology. I get to school early and make sure I have everything ready to go for all my classes.

The daily procedure will be the board so students can see exactly what we'll be doing that day. I'll have any papers for printed and ready to go at the front of the room, assignments ready on Google Classroom, and any websites or videos pre-loaded in case of tech-glitches.

Sure, you can do some of these things during class, but even if it takes you 30 seconds to open YouTube and go to a video, that's MORE than enough time for kids to get off-task. Even worse - the internet is down and that video you planned on watching won't load.

If you take the time to get everything ready before class starts, it will save you incredible amounts of frustration, and allow you more time in class for covering your content.

5) No Down Time!

This one took me a long time to really master. There's no way when you're first starting out to really know how long your lessons will take. Do you talk a lot or a little? Are your students talkative or not? Do you enjoy those tangents that lessons sometimes take or do you need to stick to the curriculum?

All of these are things you figure out over time. An activity that takes 25 minutes for one teacher might take you 20 or 40. It will vary by class also. But one thing you never want to have is down time. This is when you finish everything in your lesson and see there are still 10 minutes left in class.

Telling students they're free the rest of the period is a recipe for disaster. So, at the beginning of the year you want to over-plan for every lesson. Have enough stuff planned to take 2 whole periods. It's better that than your class flies through everything and you're stuck with unruly kids for the last 5 minutes of class.

6) Engaging Activities

I hate to say it, but look what we're competing against for kids' attention and what they're used to. As much as I'd love to conduct each class with a Socratic Seminar and have students questioning their assumptions in a learning circle, it's not something that I can expect will consistently keep them engaged.

Kids need an array of class activities that hit learning standards through varying ways. This can be primary source analysis one next day, then a stations rotation, cooperative learning, interactive notebooks, webquests or digital notebook activities, PBL, Kahoot and games, etc.

No matter how fun or engaging an activity is, kids will get bored of it if you over-do it also. Add a variety of different activities so students are consistently engaged.

6) Clear & Consistent Expectations

This is one you surely heard in your teacher training classes and it really is true. You need to have a standard level of expectations for what you allow and don't allow in class. Then you need to stick with it. If you have a rule that there's no phones in class, you can't allow then one day when there's extra time. It may seem ok, but that's how problems slowly begin.

Also, never threaten consequences you aren't ready to follow through on. If it's detention, calling home, or sending to the office, you have to follow through. So, always think about if you're really ready to write a student up or kick them out of class.

8) Invest in a Course or Training

9) Be Silly

While you're sticking with those clear and consistent expectations, you can also keep your class under control by being silly. When I would notice that kids' attention spans were starting to drift, I would pronounce a word wrong. It's totally dumb but would snap their attention back.

Thanks for Reading

That's all for now! Do you have any great classroom management suggestions? If so, please let me know through Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

I'd love to learn how you manage your classroom and we can all become better teachers together!

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Are you looking for some new classroom management ideas? Look no further, this post is packed with creative ideas that you can try in your class this year. There are ideas for keeping kids engaged with online learning, organizing your daily routines, helping students manage emotions, setting classroom expectations and ideas to motivate positive behavior with rewards.

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Classroom Management Ideas for Daily Routines

Don't you love when you find a new idea that makes your daily routine in your classroom a little more organized and efficient? Well, I've found some ideas for you that do just that.

This Includes a way to eliminate pencil sharpening during class time, an idea to have a reference for everything you need with you at all times plus, more ideas to streamline your day.

Attention Getting Strategy

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Have you tried a wireless doorbell in your class yet? You can use this tool to avoid yelling during class or organize class activities. This one comes with five different transmitters which you can use for different attention getters.

For example, one could be voices off, another could be freeze, line up, clean up, or rotate to a new station. There are 50 different chimes that you can use.

Doorbell on a Lanyard

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Taylor, a 4th grade teacher from Nashville, puts her doorbell on the back of her lanyard so that its always with her to save her voice from trying to talk over the students.

Daily Check-In

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Here's a fun way to have your students check in every morning. They find their name and put it in the connect four game. Love this idea from You Clever Monkey!

You can also change the "games pieces" to ask a question and have them put their answer in the game.

Activity Reminders

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This teacher from Australia uses these pretty cards to remind the kids of what activity they should be working on.

I'm Done Choice Board

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Here's a smart way to keep fast finishers busy while you're helping kids that are still working on their assignment. You can create an I'm done choice board and encourage students to silently choose another activity to work on while they wait for their classmates to finish.

Independent Crate System

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Take a cue from this self-proclaimed busy teacher and let your kids take control. Set up milk crates with extra copies of assignment, make-up work, and early finish ideas so that they can help themselves.

Grab & Go Sheets

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Mrs. J. from the UK uses these colorful wipeable pouches for changeable displays. She also uses them to hold papers for students to grab.

You can put some assignment sheets in each with a description for the kids. There are so many possibilities with these. You can find some here.

Student Job Lanyards

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For student duties consider creating lanyards for them to wear. This teacher from London says her students love to have a responsibility for the day and take pride in wearing their duty lanyard.

Pencil Organization Systems

Are you looking for a new way to organize the sharpened and unsharpened pencils or to keep students from having to sharpen pencils during class? Check out some clever ideas below to do that.

Straw Containers to Organize Pencils

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This is one of my favorite ideas to organized unsharpened and sharpened pencils because it just looks so cute. These are re-purposed straw containers. You can find a straw holder here.

Pencils In a Toothbrush Case

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This is a travel toothbrush case that this teacher uses to take control of all the pencil struggles! Each holds 5 pencils, one for each day of the week. At the end of the week each student turns their case in with all of their pencils sharpened.

That way they are ready to go each morning and at the end of the month the pencils are replaced with new ones. Here is a pack of travel toothbrush cases that would work perfect for this!

Pencil Patrol

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Ms. Wenger, a second-grade teacher from Illinois, has a pretty good pencil routine that you may want to follow. She has one class job, a pencil patroller, and they make sure everyone has a new pencil in the morning.

If a kiddo's pencil breaks or becomes dull during class, they can just exchange it for a sharp one. At the end of the day the Pencil patrol will gather the pencils again and sharpen them and return to the sharp bucket.

Parent Communication

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This teacher from South Carolina uses these calendars instead of emails to quickly communicate with the parents. She gives each student one in their take home folder, and she'll quickly fill in a face and sometimes jot a note down before dismissal every day.

Then she asks the parents to check them every night and initial them. She's teaching her students to reflect on their day and set goals on how to improve. Love this idea!

Resources at Your Fingertips

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This first-grade teacher from Florida made these resources so that she could have all the essentials, like schedules, student numbers and parent contacts with her at all times. She even made an extra for the sub.

Morning Routine

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Ashley created these slide templates to put on the board each day. So, that when the students come in every morning they know where to find their morning expectations. You can click the link above to find out where you can purchase the slide templates.

Motivations and Rewards

We all know that students love to be rewarded for good behavior and it works. Half of the fun of the reward for the students is the anticipation.

Check out below these brilliant ideas these teachers came up with to get their students super excited to receive an award and motivated to be on their best behavior.

Quiet Critters

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Sarah, a kindergarten teacher from Sydney, Australia, uses these little quiet critters when the class is a little noisy. Quiet critters like quiet learning. Each student gets a quiet critter that sits on their desk and likes to watch them learn.

These critters don't like to be touched and they hate noise! If the student is too loud, they'll lose their critter. This tool promotes quiet classrooms and respect towards others.

Pom-Pom Reward System

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Here's a great way to keep the entire class motivated to be on task. You let the kids earn a scoop of pom-poms when you observe the class working hard, listening to directions and showing respect.

You can have kids with excellent behavior scoop the pom-poms into the jar. They'll love this! When the jar is filled up, they earn a reward like extra recess, popcorn, or whatever you choose.

Student Shout-Out Wall

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This fourth-grade teacher created a student shout out wall for students to cheer and encourage each other. I love this idea of positive reinforcement among peers.

VIP Desk

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How fun would your students have with this? This teacher created a VIP desk with all the best stuff! Students can earn this based on good behavior. Would your students love this?

Earning a Ticket for Good Behavior

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This first-grade teacher lets her students earn a ticket and place it in the pocket that relates to their behavior. Then at the end of the week she picks a ticket from each pocket for a small reward.

Then she counts all the tickets for each student that can go toward their totals which can also earn prizes. I love how visual this reward system is!

Kerplunk Reward System

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Ms. Clarke a third-grade teacher from Australia pulls out a stick every time she catches a student following the class rules. If all the marbles fall by lunch time, then they get a special reward.

Students would love to anticipate the falling marbles. If you love this idea too, you can find the Kerplunk game here!

Positive Sticky Notes

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This 5 th, 6 th and special education teacher put a special reward on a piece of paper and then covers it with sticky notes. On the notes she writes positive behaviors that she wants to see in her class.

Then when she sees a student displaying one of the positive behaviors she removes the sticky. When the reward is revealed the students have earned it.

Reward Coupons

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This teacher from Ontario decided that the cheap dollar store items were not working for her class so she created these reward coupons that kids can earn for good behavior. These are things that the students actually want and bonus they are free!

Secret Student

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This first-grade teacher from Washington breaks out her secret student trick when she sees that the class expectations are starting to slip. Her tip is to not use it all the time or it'll lose its magic.

What she does is randomly chooses a student and then writes their name in a hidden spot and doesn't show the kids. Then when the class is not quite meeting expectations, she'll say, "I hope my secret student is lining up quickly and quietly" etc.

At the end of the day she decides if that secret student did a good job meeting the class expectations and if they did, she reveals the name and they get a fun prize.

If they didn't, then she doesn't reveal the name and says something like, "oh that's too bad the secret student was not on task today hopefully tomorrow's secret student can follow the class rules."

Classroom Store Cart

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Brook, a fourth-grade teacher from Texas created this classroom store cart to help with classroom behavior management. Students can earn class money for good behavior, participating in class discussions, and completing assignments to spend in this fun class store.

She also picks a secret student everyday and if they are on task all day they earn $100. She said her classroom behavior is very pleasant since she started this new system!

Spin the Wheel

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This second-grade teacher created a prize wheel that students can spin for a classroom reward.

Blurt Beans

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Here's a fun idea from Mrs. Sanders, a second-grade teacher from Texas. She's trying to cut down on the blurting out during class. So, she gives each student three beans at the beginning of class.

Then she'll remove one if they interrupt her or another student. Then at the end of the day they get to add their leftover beans to the reward jar.

If you want to try this idea in your class you can use a couple of clear food storage containers like these.

Bubble Gum Machine Rewards

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Mrs. Wenger, a second-grade teacher from Illinois, uses a bubble gum machine filled with pencil top erasers as a reward for student good behavior.

The kids would love to get a reward out of a gumball machine! You could mix it up and try other small rewards too.

If you love this idea, you can find the bubble gum machine here. It comes in a few different fun colors!

Classroom Management Ideas for Behavior Expectations

These next few ideas will help to teach your students what their behavior expectations are. These are great to start at the beginning of the year or when you see the classroom behavior starting to slip.

When to Interrupt Board

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Katie, a kindergarten teacher from Texas, uses this, when to interrupt board, as a visual tool for the kids to understand her classroom expectations. You could also read them The Interrupting Chicken to help bring the lesson to life.

Using a Counter

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This teacher uses this simple counter to count blurting. Think of all of the uses, even counting positive behavior that you see in your students.

You can find a counter that would work for this idea here.

First of the Year Expectations

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Here's a great way to set expectations for your class at the beginning of the year.

While You Were Out

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Robyn, a fourth great teacher, has a great way to organize and help kids out that had to miss school. She creates a while you were out folder and fills it with the work that they can do at home when they miss school and then lets them know when to return it.

Phone Management Idea

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Addie, an ELA teacher, came up with a great idea for classroom management, she'll take a student's phone if she sees it during class.

Then she'll put it in a brown paper bag, staple it shut and then return it to the student. They can't open the bag until class is through. That way she doesn't have to be responsible for the student's phones.

Fix-It Ticket

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Shannon, a second-grade teacher, uses these "fix it tickets" as the next step after a warning has been given and behavior hasn't improved. She has them evaluate their own behavior so that they can do a little self-reflection.

This is used as a starting point for a conversation with the student on how then can improve. You could either send these home with the students or you could show the parents during conferences.

Managing Emotions

These next ideas will help your students to self-manage their feelings and emotions and let them know that it's ok to struggle sometimes.

The Struggle is Real

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Here's another great classroom management idea created by a 5 th grade teacher. It shows the students what it means to struggle. It also shows them what they can and can't do when they are struggling.

The personalized Bitmoji makes it fun. Plus, it's a great reminder for the students how they can work through their struggles and help them remember that the struggle is real, and we all have them.

Calm Down Kit

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This first-grade teacher from Chicago has created a calm down kit as a tool to help kiddos self-manage their feelings. It's important to have tools for students to identify and self-manage their emotions and to teach them how to use these tools.

Coping Strategy Dice

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These coping strategies dice would make the perfect addition to a calming corner in your classroom. When your students are feeling overwhelmed, or upset they can retreat to a calm spot in the class and roll a die and follow the coping strategy.

These could also be used as a take home tool. You could give one to a child to take home and use when they need it. Click the link under the picture to find out where to order them.

Clever Classroom Management Ideas

The next few ideas that I'll show you are clever ideas that teachers have found to overcome some of the new challenges faced in the classroom like online learning.

Online Learning Engagement Strategy

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Do you have a hard time keeping the kids engaged during online learning? Well then take a cue from Kim, a first-grade teacher from Los Angeles.

She told her students if they were able to explain to the class how they solved their math problem and become the "teacher" that she would put a sticker on her face. Turns out it worked, the kids thought it was hilarious and were eager to become the teacher for class!

Keeping it Clean Strategy

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Lindsay, a fifth-grade teacher from New Jersey, created these cute smart sanitizer and anti-bacterial brain booster covers for her classroom cleaning and sanitizing products. What a cute idea to encourage the kids to keep clean and stay healthy.

Another new classroom management idea is desk pets? Have you tried them yet. I wrote an entire post about it...You can check it out here- Desk Pets | Why to Add Them To Your Class This Year

Now you've seen the 35 best classroom management ideas to try in your class this year. A big shout out to all the inspirational teachers that provided ideas for this post. Give them a little love by clicking on the link below the picture and giving them a follow on Instagram. If you liked this post click the buttons below to share on your favorite social media and you can click on the picture to save to one of your Pinterest boards.

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The best classroom management ideas for online learning, your daily routine, helping kids manage emotions and setting classroom expectations. Plus, fun new ideas for rewards!