74 Principles for Effective Classroom Management
(with a Focus on Higher Education)
Plus 500 Teaching Strategies and 500 Supporting Quotations

by Victoria Nesnick, Ed.D.

Overview

Classroom management refers to everything instructors do to ensure that their classroom runs effectively and smoothly, so that students learn what they are required to learn. Effective classroom management is a hallmark of highly effective teachers. The level of classroom management has a major impact on what students learn, intentionally and unintentionally, and also what they don’t learn.

This handbook and workshop are designed to share research-based best practices and time-tested strategies that help create a positive, productive teaching and learning process, with minimal disruption and confusion. Utilizing The Effective Classroom Management Pyramid diagram (created by Dr. Nesnick) will help increase the benefits and joys of teaching and learning.

Purpose
  1. To develop the expertise (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) needed to create and maintain effective classroom management that helps maximize student learning.
  2. To explore and create classroom management strategies to enhance the teaching-learning process.

View Table of Contents:
74 Principles for Effective Classroom Management (with a Focus on Higher Education)

Handbook: 95 pages, 8.5″ x 11″ spiral bound © 2016

Download The Effective Classroom Management Pyramid

Top 19 Learning Objectives for the Effective Classroom Management Workshop

By the end of successfully completing this workshop, participants should be able to demonstrate their expertise in effective classroom management. This will be evident as participants:

  1. Discuss the meaning and goals of classroom management.
  2. Articulate personal classroom management beliefs (philosophies) including acceptable and unacceptable student behaviors.
  3. Establish ways to translate beliefs into a practical action plan and how to convey it to students.
  4. Explore various classroom management theories and their applications.
  5. Explore the impact that physical space and furniture arrangement has on classroom management.
  6. Discuss best practice for beginning each class.
  7. Discuss best practices for concluding each class.
  8. Discuss best practices for engaging students in their learning.
  9. Explore strategies for creating and maintaining a classroom atmosphere conducive to optimal learning.
  10. Develop ways to use the course syllabus as a classroom management tool.
  11. Share tips for handling mistakes.
  12. Identify strategies for creating and maintaining a positive rapport with students.
  13. Discuss the sources and consequences of positive and negative reactions from students.
  14. Propose strategies for instilling the sense of a community of learners.
  15. Articulate strategies for building students’ self-efficacy (“I can do it!”) levels.
  16. Define “disruptive student behavior”.
  17. Discuss various types of disruptive student behaviors.
  18. Explore causes for disruptive student behavior.
  19. Develop mental and physical strategies that prevent disruptive student behaviors and create a positive environment.

Faculty and Administrator Testimonials
Regarding the Classroom Management Workshop

LIM College, NYC
–  “It is extremely helpful. I wish I had this workshop at the beginning of the semester. . . This should be required for all first time adjuncts at the beginning of their first semester.”  ~Shelly Evans
–  “It added new ideas that I was not aware of.”  ~Sue Mookram
–  “I picked up many helpful tips to incorporate into my classroom.” ~Andrea DeMarco
–  “Great engagement; multiple lenses and perspectives.” ~Gayathri Banavara

Christine Valmy International School of Esthetics and Cosmetology, NJ
–  “The most valuable idea to me was taking control of the classroom, all the different ways that I can actually make that happen.” ~Claritza Asencio
–  “Excellent!”  ~Victor Lupinacci
–  “It helped me to open my mind.”  ~Karen L. A. Kaye
–  “It helped me to be a better teacher.”  ~Maria Cobo
–  “Victoria’s communication was excellent. . . She motivated and encouraged me.”  ~Norma Smith
–  “Victoria’s classroom management pyramid. . . reminded us of our role in the classroom . . .
I look forward to working with Victoria again. She charged our batteries.” ~Theresa Marion, Instructor Supervisor

Faculty and Administrator Testimonials
Regarding the Classroom Management Handbook

Collin College, Nursing Department, TX
–  “Each page/principle as free-standing is great.” ~Shelly Farrow, Professor
–  “Even though I have been teaching for several years, the classroom management pyramid puts it into perspective. . . The way the principles are written, including management strategies and quotations, is very useful for me.” ~Michelle Denny, Professor
–  “The handbook not only presented concrete principles essential to effectively manage a classroom but articulated barriers which present challenges to managing a classroom.” ~Nita Steel

Christine Valmy International School of Esthetics and Cosmetology, NJ
–  “Everything in this handbook is comprehensive and easy to follow.” ~Theresa Marion, Instructor Supervisor
–  “It will be a good tool I can use going forward.” ~Eileen Madison
–  “It is comprehensive and easy to follow.” ~Theresa Marion
–  “It is organized and understandable.” ~Karen L. A. Kaye

LIM College, NYC
–  “It will be an invaluable ‘tool’ to be a more effective educator.” ~Marjorie Lee Woo, Associate Department Chair
–  “It’s a tool I can read to help prepare for my classes.” ~Gayathri Banavara
–  “I will use it as a guide for many years to come!”~Andrea DeMarco
–  “It’s very helpful as complete guidelines.  Love all the quotes too. Will use them.”  ~Marc Benhamou