Ebook, for Classroom Management —Tips to Give You Peace!

Hello! Take a look at the the information below. It gives you the background of my book and there is a bullet list below. If you are just looking for a quick reward to work into your classroom management system, this simple reward might help: Cute, Affordable Classroom Reward You Can Use Year After Year! | TpT (teacherspayteachers.com).

If you want a classroom climate survey, which I mention in this book, here is a great one: Classroom Survey

The Book Includes:

• Seating chart tricks
• Parent relationship maneuvers and redirects
• How to maintain a nurturing and positive environment
• How to stay on the peaceful classroom path, including what to do when it's sour
• How to blossom in positivity and help your students to do so, too!
• And much more!

I wasn't a "natural-born teacher" as my superintendent likes to call the naturally talented teachers. I was someone who wanted to teach, but I was kind of clumsy around the classroom, and my class never ran smoothly, like I wished it would. I didn't know a lot of what I felt like I should know. So, the school days felt awful to me, and when I went home? The work wasn't over.

I took lots of evening hours to plan lessons that were "good". But even after countless hours lost to planning, I came into school, and it was still awful. My classroom kind of looked like a circus no one wanted to watch!

I started my teaching career in a school that had a large population of disruptive, disrespectful, and unruly students. We were a reading intervention school that all the other district principals sent their most disruptive kids, who also had scored very low on reading tests. So, bad behaviors from one student definitely encouraged other kids to act out, as well. Some kids were apathetic and looked like they thought paint drying was more interesting than my lesson, or even the shenanigans in class.

Other students wanted the focus of the class on them; they wanted the attention and would get it through acting like the "tough girl", the special child, or the funny one. The issue that felt the worst was that I would go home from work in agony knowing I was going to go to work the next day to face the bad behaviors, again.

Sure, the planning is hard, but classroom management was taking a serious toll on me. Like, your job should not make you want to cry so often! One student berated me so badly I ended up crying in the hallway, trying to make it to the staff bathroom where I could compose myself.

As I cried in the staff bathroom, I thought, " How can I pay rent if I quit? What other job will hire me ASAP? I can't do this. I started off making too many mistakes and now the class can never be a good class. This is miserable, I'm not good enough, but I can't afford a coach or to go back to school." I wiped my tears and wished my red face would turn back to a normal complexion. I made myself feel better by thinking, "even if it is going to be hard, there have got to be some doable things I can do to make my class run better."

I went home that day and was real with myself; nothing would change without me putting in the elbow grease, and figuring out how to teach a class full of disruptive and apathetic kids! I decided I was going to figure it out; I HAD to figure it out. And guess what. I did figure it out. That first year was hard, all the way through, but it was much better afterward. Each year I got a large raise because my test scores climbed up and my observations improved and I was rated high.

I can help you because I created a "playbook" of things that worked with even the "naughty" kids, and I've been tweaking it and adding to it, every year. I know it will help you because I've adapted it to 5 different schools, 10 different grade levels, 6 different content areas, and many principals ever since. I'm happy to say that my playbook has kept me a rather happy teacher.

I don't go home upset about how I handled a tough behavior, I don't dread my chaotic classroom, I don't dread bad attitudes or phone calls from parents. My system works. It makes my life much happier. I love my job, often laugh and smile at work, and I never worry or feel stressed out about work. I think everyone who works with adults has gotten cheated out of the real joy I get from getting to work with kids all day. It is literally fun. Instead of learning "the hard way", or like I did, from scratch, you can have this strategy and quality of teaching life, too. It's called "The Classroom Cure".

The Classroom Cure touches on all the topics that I thought would make it easier to teach, but might not be said by others. For example, it only has real-world strategies I use myself, and I teach in colloquial language, so it doesn't read like an Ikea furniture manual, but like I am talking to you. I know The Classroom Cure will help you, so please feel comfortable with my 100% money-back guarantee.

If you have any questions about the product (this is my first time ever publishing an epub file) please email me and let me know! I will make things right with you!

gurulem26@gmail.com