Music as a Behavior Management Strategy
I talk a lot about the value of music as a teaching strategy and, in most of my sessions, I discuss the effectiveness of music as a way to calm and focus students. A couple of teachers in my fall seminars offered the ideas outlined below for using music for classroom...
Offering Praise to Middle School Students
In my seminars, I often talk about the special difficulties faced by middle school students and the issues that middle school teachers must be aware of and deal with. As an advocate of positive discipline, I appreciated Shaun Martin’s thoughts on offering...