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1. Class meetings help support positive behavior because students have some voice and choice in classroom norms.
2. Although I don't like the idea of circles in P.E., I do believe they would be helpful in other classrooms because they give every student a chance to speak their mind.
3. Creating a community based atmosphere in the classroom by building relationships with students.
4. Staying consistent and restorative in any disciplinary strategy.
5. PROXIMITY! This was in one of the articles and Dr. Urtel preaches this strategy to the Phys. Ed. majors all the time. Students generally stop disruptive behaviors when you continue to teach, while subtly moving closer and closer to them

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1. Show genuine interest in my students lives.
2. Construct a learning environment that allows all students to feel invested in what's being taught.
3. Allow students to be socially active (they're going to anyway) so that it benefits them instructionally.
4. Formulate ways to brings students likes into instructional planning and allows them to stay focused in the classroom.
5. Stay up beat and positive, students will respond better to instruction if they feel you're at you're best.

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Top 5 Classroom Management and Positive Behavior Strategies
1. Make lasting relationships with your students, when they can tell that you genuinely care they will start to listen to what you have to say and respect you as well.
2. Find an alternate method to punishment that you prefer in the classroom such as conferencing or truancy mediation. Punishment leads to the STPP.
3. Make the material of study culturally relevant to your students so that they remain interested in the lessons.
4. Calmly analyze every situation developing in your classroom and act upon prior knowledge and inferences, don't act upon emotion.
5. Allow the students time to work together on assignments, don't lecture the whole time off a PowerPoint and expect the students to still be interested in what your teaching. Allow small group work, pairs, etc during assignments.

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1. Care about your students' lives in and out of the classroom
2. Create an environment which makes students feel comfortable enough to share their thoughts freely
3. Set up the classroom to facilitate both practicality of movement and give students an opportunity to socialize
4. Find ways to connect student's interests to class curriculum and keep them interested and focused during class
5. Don't let feelings of anger control how students are treated. Students react to how teachers act.

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1. Creating an environment that is safe and encourages participation. This is done by modeling good communication skills and building class norms together.
2. Be genuinely interested in your students and their lives. This can make all the difference in a student taken part and feeling valued.
3.Don't take everything personally. Reacting emotionally fuels a situation that requires you to navigate it calmly and with a level head.
4.If you are excited, it will show. So, be prepared for class by understanding your material enough that you can teach while walking around and staying in close proximity of you students. This will lend to more natural participation.
5.Know when to brush off behavior with tactics such as humor or redirecting and when you need to go to your disciplinary plan. This is done best when you know each individual student's needs.

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1.  "Create more caring and supportive learning environments… by eliminating… unnecessar[y]… use of suspensions, explosions, referrals to alternative schools; referrals to law enforcement, and school-based arrests" (basically, don't take kids out of school, because there's more effective action to be taken).

2.  Remain calm (mentioned in a lot of the sources we were given because basically, your reaction is worth a lot and fuels what happens).

3.  Manage your own behavior as an adult in the classroom, rather than try to manage the behavior of developing students (such as in the TED talk example, where they could have viewed her child-like actions in a more positive light and instead called her a demon -- ouch.)

4.  Seek solutions, not blame (basically, don't make the child feel like a criminal because it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy -- there are better and more tame ways to handle the situation than send a kid down the school-to-prison pipeline).

5.  Instill hope for success (because I've seen that having a lot of faith in your students and how they'll behave translates into their own positive self-image -- believe they can be better and they will be.)

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1. Promote respect and rapport through interpersonal connections and caring.
2. Use humor effectively as a deescalation strategy.
3. Arrange desks in a circular configuration with my desk being the vertex where I am able to see and engage all my students at all times.
4.  Strike a balance between variety and challenge in student activities through differentiated instruction and assignment variety and options.
5. Respond to students behavior with confidence and flexibility. Not all disruptive behavior warrants severe and/or extreme consequences.

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1. Build Relationships: Respect is earned, invest yourself in the students and their lives

2. Model Behavior: make an example of yourself by following classroom rules. Prove to student's the space is egalitarian.

3. Equivalent Response: consequences should be clear and equivalent to the infraction. Student's should understand

4. Clear Reasoning: Explain to student's why a rule or procedure exists and how how they have failed live up to the agreed upon rules of the classroom.

5. Student Investment: have student's invest themselves in the creation of classroom rules and norms

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5 Classroom Management and Positive Behavior Strategies

1. Being consistent with the rules of the classroom and the school. Students need consistent rules enforced by all teachers to succeed.

2. Arrange desks to where it's easy to walk though your classroom to keep an eye on all students.

3. Make the content relatable to students.

4. Politely remind students of classroom rules or procedures they are not following.

5. Build a community in the classroom to where students feel comfortable asking questions. Create a safe learning environment.

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Top 5 Classroom Management and Positive Behavior Strategies

1. Community- -Promote respect and rapport. (Choice-Voice-Place-Space, anyone?)

2. Arrangement of Classroom- -find a way to see and move easily to be near all students

3. Ignore behaviors that cause limited interference

4. focus on providing students with enriched curricula that are engaging and intellectually challenging; replace the high stakes testing

5. Reevaluate your zero tolerance policy- -Students who are removed from school predict higher rates of future misbehavior.

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Natalie W.

Top 5 Most Valuable Classroom Management Skills

1.       Check Yo’ Self. Be proactive rather than reactive in situations

2.       You can’t implement a “zero tolerance” policy without understanding the culture of your students and without providing stepping stones of punishments. The “Get tough” approach is dangerous for both students and teachers when trying to build a classroom climate.

3.       Creating a clear and easily understood plan for students for praise and consequences is the best way to avoid a hasty punishment and allows students to understand what is expected. Student behavior is not a personal attack on you and should be handled as such.

4.       Therefore; Expectations should be clear to students and deviations from it handled immediately after they happen. Note good behavior as much as possible for everyone

5.      Create and model a respectful and caring environment. This profession is for making differences in students’ lives.