When kids enter my Grade 7 classroom at the start of the year they usually go about it in one of three ways: bright-eyed and bushy-tailed eager to tackle the year, dreading each footstep (I am ...

Classroom management is all about the balance between learning within the classroom and discipline. Today, various trends are currently popular. Strategies that come to mind include Wong’s Pragmatic ...

Jal: As with many of the things we discuss here, restorative justice is an idea that is admirable in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, in particular because it is so misaligned with much ...

Disruptive classroom behavior or failing to meet reasonable behavioral expectations set forth by instructors have the potential to harm the learning environment for other students and to create unsafe ...

Do you have a student who chronically procrastinates, sulks, underperforms, tests the spirit of class rules, and undermines your authority? Does this young person have a way of breaking every rule you ...

Carol-Lee Cotter’s April 22 letter, “Disruptive children spoil it for others,” hit the nail on the head. Unless you have discipline in a classroom, the best teacher in the world cannot do a proper job ...

This article first appeared on the Anything Peaceful site. A girl in your class can't breathe. She clearly needs help. The teacher tells you to stay seated. What do you do? I would have stayed seated.

Last week a British teacher was fatally stabbed in class by one of her learners, a 15-year-old boy. Apparently the boy didn’t get on with the popular teacher, Ann Maguire (61), a Spanish teacher whose ...

Viral moments on social media become viral when it brings to the surface a community’s unspoken battle of values. For example, we have witnessed for a long time—not just during this ...

A Maine high school replaces traditional detention with a hiking program, offering students outdoor walks instead of ...

Classroom discipline varies by teacher. Some forms of discipline are more serious than others and some are not as effective as they may seem. Teachers need to be aware of this when taking action in ...