Teaching Ideas for Class Management

Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of teaching resources to manage and organise primary classrooms.

  • Classroom Temperatures

    Classroom Temperatures

    Utilise different techniques to manage high summer temperatures in the classroom that might hamper learning

  • SATs Survival

    SATs Survival

    Ease worries and anxieties as pupils prepare to take part in compulsory testing towards the end of a key stage

  • Topic Launches

    Topic Launches

    Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom

  • Maths Recovery

    Maths Recovery

    Support progress and development in maths and plug any attainment gaps and weak understanding of concepts

  • Learning Zones

    Learning Zones

    Create different learning zones around the classroom to support development across a range of curriculum areas

  • Book Corner

    Book Corner

    Build a book corner in the classroom to support and encourage reading of different fiction genres and non-fiction texts

  • Fresh Start

    Fresh Start

    Settle the class into the new school term by reviewing past achievements and setting behaviour and academic targets

  • New Year Targets

    New Year Targets

    Identify different ways of selecting class and individual behaviour and work targets for the remaining two terms of the school year

  • Topic Wall

    Topic Wall

    Use a classroom display to map understanding, development and progression in a cross-curriculum topic

  • Class Marking

    Class Marking

    Use classroom marking to support assessment and progress of pupil development in different curriculum subjects and skills

  • Classroom Exits

    Classroom Exits

    Manage and organise an orderly exit from the classroom for different times and routines as part of the school day

  • Lesson Differentiation

    Lesson Differentiation

    Plan how to use lesson differentiation to support and promote educational progress for different ability levels

  • 3D Shape Labels

    3D Shape Labels

    Identify and record how to label models and illustrations of some different 3D shapes to indicate their special properties

  • Adventure Plays

    Adventure Plays

    practise composing and performing play scripts using the correct structure and format to illustrate adventures to different locations

  • Word Matching

    Word Matching

    Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters

  • Family Toys

    Family Toys

    Investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games that were owned by families have changed and developed over time