1. Focus on what students are already doing

2. Keep your consequences as minimal as possible

3. Appropriate curriculum is a classroom management strategy

4. Rehearse transitions

5. Anticipate problems and be creative

6. Make positive phone calls and send notes home

7. Show students that it pays to behave

8. Never punish an entire class

9. Build content-related anticipation

10. Change the tone

11. Find things to appreciate

12. Ramp up your enthusiasm

13. Use your words

14. Don't pander

15. Forgive

16. Publicly announce classroom management goals

17. Give students choices

18. Establish routines

19. State the truth when things go wrong

 For a more complete detailed look at the above classroom management ideas, click on:

19 Big and Small Classroom Management Ideas 

5 Symptoms You're Doing Math Reasoning Wrong

1. Lack of student initiative

2. Lack of student perseverance

3. Lack of student retention

4. Student aversion of word problems

5. Student eagerness for formula

5 Remedies to Increase Math Reasoning (and Confidence)

1. Use multimedia

2. Encourage student intuition

3. Ask the shortest question you can

4. Let students build the problem

5. Be less helpful

 For the full video Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover TED TALK, click on the link below

Dan Meyer TED TALK