Responsive Classroom for Music, Art, PE, and Other Special Areas

Responsive Classroom practices have helped thousands of special area teachers for more than 30 years. Here you'll find practical suggestions, charts, planners, and examples from experienced special area teachers who use Responsive Classroom practices every day. You'll learn how to:

• Open and close each period in calm, orderly ways
• Set students up for success by modeling and practicing skills and routines
• Use positive teacher language
• Engage students more deeply
• Refocus and recharge students with quick, fun, movement breaks
• Respond to misbehavior to get students back to learning

• Classroom Management for Art, Music, and PE Teachers
• Energizers! 88 Quick Movement Activities That Refresh and Refocus, K-6
• Teasing, Tattling, Defiance and More... Positive Approaches to 10 Common Classroom Behaviors
• The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language that Helps Children Learn
• The First Six Weeks of School
• The Joyful Classroom: Practical Ways to Engage and Challenge Students K-6
• Studio Thinking from the Start: The K–8 Art Educator’s Handbook
• The Morning Meeting Book
• 80 Morning Meeting Ideas for Grades K-2
• Rules in School: Teaching Discipline in the Responsive Classroom ( Second Edition )