Hacking Classroom Management: 10 Ideas To Help You Become the Type of Teacher They Make Movies About

by Mike Roberts

Overview

Classroom management is never a problem for the teachers they make movies about!

Want a class like theirs, no matter what grade or subject you teach or how many students you have?

Learn the 10 ideas you can use today to create the classroom any great movie teacher would love

Utah English Teacher of the Year and sought-after speaker Mike Roberts brings you 10 quick and easy classroom management hacks that will make your classroom the place to be for all your students. He shows you how to create an amazing learning environment that actually makes discipline, rules, and consequences obsolete, no matter if you're a new teacher or a 30-year veteran.

Teachers they make movies about are innovative, engaging, and beloved

Hacking Classroom Management is about putting the F word--FUN--into your teaching, and Mike Roberts shows you how to do this, while meeting your standards and teaching your curriculum.

Hacking Classroom Management shows you how to

• Build lasting relationships with your students
• Maximize teaching time
• Reduce behavior issues
• Enhance student ownership
• Improve parental involvement

Experts love the Movie Teacher philosophy

"No matter what grade you teach, there's something of great value inside. Two Big Thumbs UP!" -Alan Sitomer, CA Teacher of the Year and Author of Short Writes

"Immensely fun and illuminating to read!" -Jeffery D. Wilhelm, Distinguished Professor of English Education at Boise State University

"Hollywood might not make a movie about you, even if you read and apply every suggestion in this book, but you and your students are much more likely to feel like classroom stars because of it." -Chris Crowe, English Professor at BYU, Past President of ALAN, author of Death Coming Up the Hill, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case; Mississippi Trial, 1955; and many other YA books

Wave Goodbye to classroom management issues

Grab Hacking Classroom Management today, become a movie teacher tomorrow, and forget about classroom management FOREVER!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998570587
Publisher:	Times 10 Publications
Publication date:	12/09/2017
Series:	Hack Learning , #15
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Mike Roberts has taught middle school English for the past twenty years. In that time, he has received numerous awards for his outstanding teaching, including being named the 2014 Utah English Teacher of the Year. Mike also teaches college classes focused on classroom management and literacy in the content areas. Additionally, he has served on many educational committees, and has been a featured speaker at dozens of state, regional, and national conferences. Mike's most recent book, Chasing Greatness: 26.2 Ways Teaching Is Like Running a Marathon, breaks down the many similarities between the classroom and the road. In the process, he shares advice from some of the best teachers and runners from across the country as a way to help you reach your highest potential. He is also the author of Hacking Classroom Management: 10 Ideas to Help You Become the Type of Teacher They Make Movies About, which identifies a variety of strategies that empower students in the learning process. Finally, he is coauthor of The New Science Teacher's Handbook: What You Didn't Learn From Student Teaching, and was a featured columnist in English Journal. When he's not teaching or presenting, Mike can usually be found running ultra-marathons in the mountains. And even after all these years, he's still not sure which takes more energy . . . a week with eighth graders or a one-hundred-mile race.

Stephen R. Thorne is a professional actor and a member of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. He has played Hamlet, Henry V, and Tom Joad, among many other roles. Stephen has narrated over fifty audiobooks.

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

This teaching thing is kind of hard

Hack 1: Remember, It’s a Classroom, Not Boot Camp . . . . 17

Think of it as classroom management 2.0

Hack 2: Expect Their Best (In and Out of the Classroom) . . 31

Setting and modeling high expectations

Hack 3: Take In a Game, a Play, or a Concert . . . . . . . . . . 45

How supporting students outside the classroom reaps benefits

within the classroom

Hack 4: Get ’Em Up and Get ’Em Moving! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

The importance of controlled movement in the classroom

Hack 5: Walk Their Walk and Talk Their Talk . . . . . . . . . 69

Using social media as a learning tool

Hack 6: Let’s Get Personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Creating opportunities for personalized learning

Hack 7: Reassess How You Assess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

The benefits of self-assessment and self-grading

Hack 8: Email Early, Email Often . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

The value of positive communication

Hack 9: Fist Bumps, High Fives, and Shout-Outs . . . . . . .127

Starting and ending class the right way

Hack 10: Celebrations and Games and Field Trips, Oh My! . 143

Why it’s important to use the “f” word in your class

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Shhh . . . the movie’s about to begin!

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Editorial Reviews

"Hollywood might not make a movie about you, even if you read and apply every suggestion in this book, but you and your students are much more likely to feel like classroom stars because of it. Mike writes from experience; he’s learned, sometimes the hard way, what works and what doesn’t, and he shares those lessons in this fine little book. The book is loaded with specific, easy-to-apply suggestions that will help any teacher create and maintain a classroom where students treat one another with respect, and where they learn."

-Chris Crowe, English Professor at BYU, Past President of ALAN, author of Death Coming Up the Hill, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case; Mississippi Trial, 1955; and many other YA books

"Mike Roberts has brought to life a classroom management guidebook that is practical, inspirational, and much needed. As we all know, if you don’t have classroom management, you ain’t got squat! No matter what grade you teach, there’s something of great value inside. Two Big Thumbs UP!"

-Alan Sitomer, CA Teacher of the Year Award Winner, Author Short Writes

"This is the book I wish I had when I first walked into my 7th grade English/Language Arts classroom 18 years ago. Mike Roberts has captured perfectly what teachers need to know and be able to do in order to build rapport with students so they will be open and receptive to learning. This easy-to-read text includes What You Can Do Tomorrow sections in each chapter for the desperate teacher who needs quick tips to get back on course, as well as Full Implementation outlines for more in-depth, year-long future planning. Most importantly, these ideas are practical, cost effective and easy to implement. As a veteran teacher, I would use this book to remind me why I wanted to teach in the first place and how to get back in touch with principles and practices that will lessen student resistance, increase student learning, and reinvigorate my own joy and satisfaction in teaching."

-Maria Griffin, Program Manager of Transition to Teaching at Salt Lake Community College

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