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Early Finishers Activities to Engage Students
Early finisher activities are a great way to encourage students to practice writing skills, research skills, puzzle skills, critical thinking, and so much more! These activities encourage students to be productive with their free time and keep students engaged so that you’re not dealing with classroom management issues while the rest of the class is finishing up.
When students finish early, they need an early finisher activity like task cards or literacy centers to complete independently. There are so many options for independent activities.
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Strategies in Classroom Management
Strategies in classroom management shouldn’t revolve around classroom rules, but a positive classroom environment that supports disruptive and struggling students as well as the entire class.
Enforcing classroom expectations with challenging students is a start, but positive behavior starts with classroom culture and teacher-student relationships. This shift can make all the difference.
Planned Ignoring: An Intervention Strategy for Inappropriate Behavior
Planned ignoring is a great strategy to use with students who exhibit attention-seeking behavior, especially temper tantrums or similar problem behavior.
If a student is misbehaving to get your attention and they’re safe, planned ignoring can be the best way to respond to that child.
This attention-seeking behavior is designed to get attention, even negative attention will do. The best way to end this behavior completely might be to ignore it.
I’ve had great success with planned ignoring with temper tantrums in a first-grade class, but it can be used with tattling and goofing off too, depending on the situation.