Reddit reviews THE Classroom Management Book

You'll hear 100 recomendations for Harry Wong's books, and I think they are worth it.

His most well-known is The First Days of School which is all about procedures and having routines.

This year he released another book called THE Classroom Management Book which is an elaboration on his section of classroom management.

He focuses on classroom management rather than discipline, as he believes that most discipline issues are caused by lack of routines and procedures.

They are not too long of a read, and set up like a textbook. My main issue is that every other page has a large blurb by someone talking about how awesome the book is and how well it worked. A few times, I get, but seriously over and over there is that stuff. It's like, I get it, I know it works. That's why I bought the damn book.

AT LEAST the first few days, you'll want to go over class procedures and routines. Dear lord, please do this. I promise you the rest of your year will be 1,000,000 times better if you do. Not sure if this is your first year, but mine was absolute hell because I didn't bother with these. Be proactive, not reactive. Good luck, friend.

Here are two excellent books, that, if you're ambitious, you can read by Friday:

The First Days of School

THE Classroom Management Book

I recommend getting this book
https://www.amazon.com/First-Days-School-Effective-Teacher/dp/0976423316

And I also got this one
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0976423332/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1/186-4435791-4861608?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=EZF6K6K7KE7SWRFX5Q9Z&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1944687542&pf_rd_i=0976423316

Teachers pay teacher will have some cute and fun back to school activities for you. You will always start the year with rules and procedures. As a class my kids and I make our classroom rules and then each student signs it the best they can (it looked interesting in kinder) and then you refer to them often. Practice things like how we line up, what we do when we need to use the restroom, how do we come in the room in the morning? Stuff like that. I always over plan for the first week or so - that way you have lots of backups. Think about what your classroom management system is and how that is going to look - then think about how you will teach that to your class. Don't assume they know what you want or how to do what you would like them to do.

You could also try this book:https://www.amazon.com/Classroom-Management-Book-Harry-Wong/dp/0976423332 I'm in my second year and used this to start my year. It is like night and day! Either way you will find a place that you fit in and it all just clicks. Good luck!!