Classroom Manager Gifts

'My fortune says 'You will be successful in getting students to control their behavior, if you first control your own behavior.'

'Do you have any books on managing disruptive students? I want to know what the opposition is up to.'

"I agree it's a good approach, and just as soon as one of my students does something positive, I'll reinforce it."

"So how was your first day of teaching?"

'It has cut down on note-passing, glancing at fellow students' test papers and spitballs.'

'You can't blame the kids for being restless when we have math teachers teaching French, and English teachers teaching science.'

'Nap time's over, Ms. Doan. You have to wake them up.'

'I start every class with a review of the basics - stay in you seat, don't call out, and don't act out.'

'Mom needs more details. Can you fire off your litany in an email?'

"Your fifteen minutes are up. Next time, raise your hand before asking questions."

"Now that's the Mr. Lumpkin I know and love!"

"I feel optimistic. I believe I can gain full sovereignty over my class today."

A Puppet Named Juan

'From six to to eighteen, they're always at that age.'

'Okay, is there anybody else whose homework ate their dog?'

'Good girl, Carol - now hands up all those who have lost their pens.'

'Smashing party, Miss - can we have another one tomorrow?'

'Your classroom management techniques work in practice but not in theory. That worries me.'

The full moon frenzy strikes again."

'The reason the core curriculum seems so ambiguous is that we dot really have a core curriculum.'

'My class is so large and my seat so far back, I feel like I'm taking a distance-learning course.'

'Life isn't fair and neither is Miss Brown!'

Teacher's Inbox: In One Ear/Out The Other

"If you do well in your first practicum, you can move on to teaching real children."

"I've heard of being organized, but isn't this a little obsessive compulsive?"

'Actually, nowadays it's considered offensive to call an answer 'wrong'.'

Teacher getting the childrens attention by pretending to be on television.

Too much homework: kid with two backpacks.

'Well, when you mess up on the job, you know where you stand with me.'

The History Teacher

Teacher's pet dog

Education Guidance

Luck is when good classroom management skills meets a day when distruptice students are absent.

"It works as long as the teacher doesn't call on you."

"Tell me again how many young minds I will have shaped by the end of my teaching career."