Keeping students engaged and on task: motivation, group work, devices, and proactive management.
Phones are the single biggest competition for student attention, and willpower is not a plan.
Open workshop →WorkshopGroup work fails when students do not know what to do, how to work together, or what they are accountable for.
Open workshop →WorkshopDisengagement is rarely about laziness.
Open workshop →WorkshopThe best classroom managers rarely have to respond to big problems, because they prevent them.
Open workshop →WorkshopSome moments are predictably harder, right after lunch, the end of the day, Friday afternoons, the day before a break.
Open workshop →WorkshopA class of 35 is not just a class of 25 with ten more students, the logistics, participation, monitoring, and relationships all get harder at scale.
Open workshop →WorkshopSome of the most effective classroom management happens without a word.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhere you stand and how you move is one of the most powerful and underused management tools you have.
Open workshop →WorkshopAttention is not just something students have or lack, it is a skill that can be strengthened.
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