(The free class management video is available just below.) The hardest part of teaching is almost never taught to new teachers. If you’re struggling with managing student behavior and motivating students to learn, you’ve finally found the help you need.
Some of the products below are my own personal creations – my original class online training, my novel Take Back That Class, my other supporting materials developed through my work with the website HelpingTeachersGrow.com. Other products have been created by other professionals and have been so helpful to other educators, I wanted to offer them on this site as well.
Take Back That Class – How I Learned to Love Teaching All Over Again. A book on teaching and classroom management by Darren Barkett. Click here to read the first chapter and the author’s bio.
The two videos on classroom management that started it all! These video presentations are simple yet powerful – especially for the teacher who knows he or she wants help! These videos are nearly 30 minutes long and have been presented over a thousand times, helping teachers across the globe manage and motivate students respectfully and effectively.
Take Back That Class – Online! This groundbreaking self-paced training in classroom management will help you grow into the teacher you know you can become. It includes…
..the instant download ebook Take Back That Class by Darren Barkett …the two original class management videos …thirteen brand new videos that walk you through every stage of developing, implementing, and maintaining your class management system …membership in our online learning community …surveys, assignments, and reflections – all designed to help you achieve the state of mind necessary for growing into the effective teacher you’ve always wanted to be …instant download class management student checklists and behavior posters …and the ability to handle about anything your students dish up!
"Listen When Someone is Speaking" "Get the Teacher’s Attention" "Follow Directions" "Accept Feedback" …and a blank sign for your own needs!
"Once I learned Darren’s system for managing student behavior, I haven’t referred one student to the office- all year! "
The system was so easy to learn and implement, I only wish I’d learned it my first year of teaching. It would have saved me so much time and stress. To think that I could make it through my day without getting frustrated or upset has made all the difference in my decision to remain in the teaching profession. I absolutely love my job now!
My principal called me in to her office early in the year of my second year teaching. She’d heard from a couple parents who called concerned at how I had acted in front of the class. In no uncertain terms, my principal laid it all on the line. She told me, simply, that unless I learned how to…
…that I wouldn’t be hired back for my second year of teaching. And I probably wouldn’t be hired on by any school in the district! My teaching career would be over before it ever got started!
I started crying. I felt like a fool. Here I was, bawling like one of my students, in front of my principal. What would I do if I couldn’t teach? The last five years of my life I’d dedicated to teaching. I wasn’t qualified to do anything else! For so long, I’d expected to be one of those career teachers that teachers for 30 years or more. And here I am nearly fired after my first year!
I went home that night and spent the entire weekend trying to look at my problems with my students from a new perspective. What was it exactly that was keeping me from being successful in the classroom?
I made a list of the dozen or so different behaviors that kept me from teaching my students. And what I realized is that nearly all my students’ misbehaviors and all my frustrations were caused by one missing element. You know what that was?
It sounds silly, I know. Especially in the older grades. Teaching students how to behave? They should just know how!
So I went to school the next week with some nice homemade signs about being nice to eachother and being respectful to me and the other students. I even took the time to show the students my nice signs and to calmly warn them about the importance of doing what the signs told them to, which was simple statements like "Be respectful!" and "Treat others the way you want to be treated."
This should change everything! If my students knew how to behave, then I shouldn’t have any more problems.
That very same day I found myself losing my temper all over again. I tried to calm myself down, but it just didn’t work.
Didn’t they realize how important this was to their futures? Couldn’t they see how much I really cared about them and their personal growth?
Perhaps that wasn’t the problem. Perhaps my well-intentioned signs encouraging "mutual respect" weren’t clear enough. Perhaps I needed to approach my students behaviors as if it were an entire lesson all by itself.
I spent that evening working on a new lesson. A lesson I’d never taught before. A lesson I’d never heard anyone else teach before, either.
This lesson would teach students how to behave in my class. And I was going to be so specific that there wouldn’t be any room for misunderstanding.
I came to school the next day, armed with my new lesson, which had actually turned into a two day lesson. I explained to the students why I had to teach them these silly sounding lessons.
It really worked! I mean it wasn’t perfect from the start, but by the end of that week, my students were behaving better. I was interrupted less. Students were listening more. I didn’t have to repeat myself a dozen times to be heard. I hadn’t raised my voice nearly all week. I even laughed with my students at different…
Classroom Management Implementation Plans
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