Index
A
Accountability: No Screaming policy and; teachers’ loss of emotional control and
Actors, teachers as
Administrator report cards
Anger: indications of; questioning students in; screaming of teachers in; teachers’ biggest mistake regarding; tips for defusing
Apologies
Appreciation, of students
“Are You All Right?” technique
Assignments, class
Attention, of students: bell-to-bell teaching and; strategies for gaining; teachers’ movement around room and
Audience involvement
B
Back to School Night
Behavior, inappropriate. See Misbehavior
Behavior, positive
Bell-to-bell teaching
Body language
Boring instruction
Breaux, A.
C
Calm demeanor
Car trips
Classroom management: establishing rules/procedures and; facts about; ignoring misbehavior and; importance of; misbehavior and; movement of teacher in classroom and; rhetorical questions in; screaming as; sharing strategies for; student attention and; teachers’ loss of emotional control and; teachers’ mistakes related to; teachers observing other teachers to learn about
Classroom organization
Coaches, teachers as
Collaboration, of teachers
Colorful classrooms
Communication: hurtful types of; with parents
Conflict resolution
Consequences, establishment of
Consistency: in implementing procedures; for managing a classroom
Creed, of teachers
D
Decision making, student-based
Delegating responsibilities
Desks, teachers’
Displays, classroom
E
Early finishers
Effective teaching: enthusiasm and; fun activities in; importance of; versus ineffective teaching; meaningful lessons in; recognizing; report cards for; strategies for increasing; student engagement and; student-based decisions in; teachers’ creed and; teachers’ movement around room and; teachers’ observation of; using inservice to promote
Emotional control, lack of
Enabling negative teachers
Endorphins
Engagement, of students
Enthusiasm: during Back to School Night; of principals; of teachers
Eye contact
F
Faculty meetings: goal of; greeting teachers at; length of; seating arrangement during; securing audience attention at
Favorite teachers
Feedback: for principals, from teachers; for teachers, from students
Follow-through
Football games
Fun lessons
G
Gossip
Greeting students
Gripe sessions
H
Habits
Humor
I
Ignoring misbehavior
Inservices: benefits of; capturing audience attention during; effective presentations in; follow-through with; goal of; greeting teachers at; leaders of; length of; review meeting for
Invitations, for Back to School Night
Isolation, of teachers
L
Last word
Laughter
Learning, incorporating fun into
Lecturing
Lesson planning: for bell-to-bell teaching; coaches versus teachers and; fun activities in; meaningful activities in; sharing ideas for
Likeable teachers
M
Meaningful lessons
Meetings. See Faculty meetings
Misbehavior: audience for; consequences and; contacting parents about; effective versus ineffective strategies for; ignoring of; negative co-workers and; questioning students about; screaming at students for; smiling and; strategies for managing; teachers’ loss of emotional control due to; teachers’ mistakes related to; teachers’ movement around room and
Motivation, of students: coaches versus teachers and; likeable teachers and
N
Negativity: of co-workers; focusing on; of least favorite teachers; on principal report cards; professionalism and; teacher collaboration and; teachers’ lounge and
No Screaming policy
Notes, to parents
O
Off-task behavior
Organized workspaces
P
Parents: defusing anger from; involvement of; positive communication with
Personal stories
Personalized inservice
Phone calls to parents: for Back to School Night; positive notes home and
Popularity, of teachers
Positive school environment; focusing on; smiling and; teachers’ lounge and
Power struggles
Practice
Presentations
Pride, in school
Principals: effective presentations of; enthusiasm of; goal of; inservice organization and, xii; positive focus of; report cards for
Private practice session technique
Prizes: for Back to School Night; for welcoming classroom environments
Procedures: consequences for violating; establishment of; versus rules; for securing student attention
Professionalism: characteristics of; defusing anger and; negativity and; screaming and
Q
Questioning students, about misbehavior
R
Recess
Relationship building: apologies and; likeable teachers and; positive notes and; questioning students and; teachers’ creed and
Relevance
Reminder inservice
Report cards: for principals; for teachers
Respect
Rhetorical questions
Role models: principals as; smiling of; teachers as
Rules, classroom: common mistake regarding; establishment of; versus procedures
S
School climate: classroom environment and; greeting students and; negative co-workers and; parent communication and; parent involvement and; reminder inservice and; school pride and; student appreciation and; teachers’ lounge and
School pride
Screaming at students
Seating arrangements
Serious appearance
Sharing sessions
Signals, for securing student attention
Skill practice
Smiling
Staff developers
Storytelling
Stress
Struggling teachers: bell-to-bell teaching by; sharing classroom management strategies with
Student achievement: benefits of inservice for; celebrating; effective teaching and; fun activities for; meaningful lessons and
Student Appreciation Week
Student-based decisions
Students: apologizing to; appreciation for; celebrating success of; daily greeting of; defusing anger from; displaying work of; as early finishers of class activities; teacher report cards from
Sympathetic leaders
T
Talking in class: rule against; strategy for addressing
Teachers: acknowledging progress of; as actors; characteristics of effective; as coaches; collaboration of; enthusiasm of; favorite versus least favorite; human nature of; influence of; isolation of; location of, in classroom; loss of control by; movement of, around classroom; negative attitude of; observations of teachers by; organized workspaces of; popularity of; report cards for; as role models; sharing of strategies by; types of
Teachers’ creed
Teachers’ lounge
Teaching, effective. See Effective teaching
Time fillers
Trust, establishing
W
Walmart
Welcoming environment
Whitaker, T.