Professional learning about classroom management
Classroom management in the middle grades depends heavily on creating engaging, active, and cooperative lessons. Team members need regular access to content experts who have developed skills in presenting the lessons in an engaging way to catch the interest of young adolescents and minimize classroom disruptions.
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Toby Johnson Middle School, Elk Grove Unified School District, a 2006 Schools to Watch™-Taking Center Stage 2006 Model School
Each year the school staff members participate in on-site professional development series. One year the series focused on classroom management. To make the series engaging, the staff members called it, “Lord of the Class Ring—Battle for Middle Earth.” The next year the series was about “Cognitive Coaching” and the book, Classroom Instruction That Works (Marzano). The title of that series was “Tool Time—Instructional Strategies That Work.”
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