De-escalating Meltdowns
Videos For Teachers
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Running A Quality Lesson
- Lesson Components
- Backward Planning a Quality Lesson
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Generating Student Effort
- Challenging (All) Students
- Building Classroom Culture
- Enlisting Parents
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Managing Behavior
- Proactive Classroom Moves
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Reactive Classroom Moves
- Reacting to Minor Misbehavior
- Reactive Management Moves
- De-escalating Meltdowns
- Rebuilding After Conflict
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Teacher Organization 🆕
- Organizing Your Week
- Efficient Grading
- Setting Up Your Classroom
Teachers everywhere will sometimes have to manage a student who isn't fully in control of their emotions. Remember: she isn't a bad kid. There are no bad kids. These things happen.
In some cases you'll be able to spot a potential meltdown and take some proactive steps to avoid it.
But other times, your best case scenario is to remove the student so learning can continue - without eroding your relationship or credibility with the upset student.
Additional Resources
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Reactions Script
Scripts for what to say in response to a variety of actions a student could take when you've asked them to leave class.
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“Surviving Your Rookie Year of Teaching” MOOC
This free, open-enrollment Coursera class explains 3 high leverage ideas and techniques to help teachers thrive in their first (or fifteenth) year of teaching.
Related Minis
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Reactive Management MovesThere are a variety of tools for managing minor misbehavior that could accumulate into a storm. Click here to learn more