TCM Resource Materials

School Level

These are a few resources from TCM and ASSC that will support your efforts to move your school up the roadmap, discard limiting practices and adopt more transformative and effective policies and practices

• TLR Chapter 11 Moving your School Up the Roadmap In the area of Classroom Management and Discipline
• In Search of a Complete and Coherent Discipline/Management System
• Change Your Classroom Management Change Your School
• 10 reasons to use Transformative Classroom Management
• Limiting Influence of PBIS
• 7 Bad Classroom Management Ideas Sold to Teachers in PDs
• Comparison of the CM options at the current time - Matrix
• Better than Best Practice: The Management Achievement Connection
• Connecting Athletics and School Climate

Classroom Level

These are a few practices from TCM to support your success as a transformative classroom leader.

• Chapter One of TCM
• Virginia Department of Education 12 part TCM webinar conducted by John Shindler
• Positive Alternative to Names on the Board and/or Colored card system
• Creating Clear Classroom Expectations
• 10 biggest classroom management mistakes teachers make
• Exploring the Use of Competition in the Classroom
• What happens when we use Extrinsic Rewards
• Making your Thinking your Ally not your enemy:ch16
• Moving from 4-style (dominator) to 2-style (conductor) practice
• Moving from 2-style to 1-style (facilitator) practice
• Teaching that Promotes a Success Psychology
• Teaching Style Classifications
• Technical Management: Cues, Directions, etc.
• Individual Situational Leadership Model
• Consequences and punishments
• Excuse Psychology
• Use of Reality Therapy
• Assessing Process/Participation
• Forms of Teacher Power
• Succeeding With Challenging Students and Negative ID
• Effects of Teacher Language use exercise
• Negotiating a Power Struggle
• Managing the Behavioral Contract/Covenant
• Social Learning Model
• Success Psychology: A definition
• Teaching Across Type: 5 Principles
• Beginning the School Year with a Collaboratively Created Social Contract
• TCM table of Contents

Mindfulness Resources

An essential part of successful classroom management is cultivating personal mindfulness and an intention to bring awareness to your work.

Resources for supporting teacher mindfulness will be compiled over time at the mindfulness resource site at web.calstatela.edu / faculty / jshindl/cm / MIndfulnessIndex.htm

These are some of the resources to support your success as a teacher.

• Comparing Limiting vs Empowering Internal Questions
• We Teach Who We are So Why not Teach the Real You?
• Chapter 16 of TCM Making Your Thinking Your Ally
• What a Psychology of Success (POS) looks like in Four Domains of a Teachers Life
• Levels of States of Consciousness
• A General Vision Development Process for Educators
• Reflecting on How We Think About Control in the Classroom
• Creating a More Loving Perception of Your Students and Classroom
• Dealing Constructively with Negativity that Arises
• Teaching Style Matrix and Mindfulness