College Classroom Management Strategies & Techniques

Good classroom management is critical to creating a good learning environment. This site has a collection of links from various colleges and other sources to help you effectively prevent or address student behavioral problems in the classroom.

• Tips for Creating a Peaceful Classroom
  Seven succinct tips for setting the right tone in your classroom.
• Classroom Control for College and Professional School Teachers
  This website focuses on classroom control past the high school level. The faculty author has learned classroom control techniques for the medical school level through trial and error. These ideas and techniques are shared with the intention of sparing you, the college or professional school instructor, some of his past grief.

• Classroom Management - Baruch College
  Members of the faculty, staff, and administration met to discuss issues of classroom management; specifically, student behavior that disrupts effective teaching. The listing of suggestions in this site reflects the consensus and is advanced here for consideration by individual members of the faculty and by departments.

• Dealing with Difficult Behaviors in the Classroom - Honolulu Community College
  This site presents a series of classroom situations with suggestions for appropriate responses.

• Managing the Learning Environment - Georgian College
  This site presents some general guidelines from Georgian College for creating and maintaining a positive learning environment. It includes specific suggestions for addressing disruptive talking, chronic late arrivals and early departures, negative comments and challenges to policies and procedures, lack of participation, etc.

• Classroom Management Strategies - California Community Colleges
  Situations within the college classroom do occasionally occur that lead us to seek out advice in order to maintain the learning environment for students. The intent of this site is to suggest preventative strategies and practical solutions for specific classroom problems.
• Handling Crises - California Community Colleges
  One of the best ways to handle crisis in your professional life or in the classroom is to be prepared with strategies to avoid crises in the first place and to manage it as best one can when natural disaster, or a student's physical or mental illness makes avoidance impossible. This site is divided into 7 sections addressing various crises including: conflict with students and peers, potentially violent behavior, emotionally troubled students, disruptive behaviors, sexual harassment, and medical emergencies