Classroom Management

I am currently working on a book about classroom management that works in the real classroom. If you are like me, you have read many books and attendend many seminars on classroom management. Everything you hear and read sounds wonderful and doable. Then you stop and look at your particular classroom and you realize that what you heard sounds great, but it's not realistic. What do you do with your classroom?

If your classrooms are anything like mine have been you will look at those faces looking back at you and see a student with Asperegers, a student with PPD (a level of autism), at least one student who speaks no English, several students in the 7th or 8th grade who read about the 2nd grade level. What do you do with this class? How do you teach those very special students and still teach the standards, and keep the kids on and above grade level challenged?

I know that my classes have been the rule instead of the exception. I'm going to write a series of articles about classroom management that works for your classroom. The real classroom. I will give you real strategies that work in the "real" classroom.

I'll start by posting my Philosophy of Education and continue from there. Thank you for taking the time to read me and please feel free to ask questions. If I don't have the answer I will fiind the answer.