John Haney

Slm 521 sp03

4/30/03

Course Module #2

Classroom Management

Objective:  Students will be able to locate web sites that provide information on classroom management.

Objective:  Students will be able to evaluate classroom management sites, and collect and annotate those ones that are useful.

Introduction:  Classroom management is on of the biggest problems facing beginning teachers.  Developing classroom management procedures that work takes a lot of time and effort.  Luckily, the Internet is there to help you.  The sharing of classroom management techniques by professionals is very helpful to busy teachers.  This activity is about helping you find sites that are specifically useful to you in your content area. 

Activity:  Chose a search engine and develop a query that will find classroom management sites useful in your content area.  Visit some of the sites and review the strategies there.  Rank the sites by usefulness and quality.

Assignment:  Make a brief annotated bibliography of the 5 best sites.  Your citation should contain the following information.

-         Page Title

-         Annotation

-         Date you visited the page

-         URL

Sample: 

Education World – This page provides classroom management techniques for all content areas.  It has an extensive list of ideas and is easy to navigate.  Subject areas are listed separately. 

Date visited – 4/30/03

Education World® - Teacher Resources : Classroom Management

Rubric:

 

3

2

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Annotation

Fully developed summary, includes usefulness, purpose, grade level

Short summary with little detail about usefulness and purpose.

Presents little information about the site.

Citation

Is complete and well organized

Is complete, and disorganized

Incomplete citation

Information Design

Well spaced, complete and easy to read.

Difficult to read, crammed together, incomplete information

Very difficult to differentiate between citations, incomplete information