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.

  • 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

  • Homework

    Homework

    Select and plan a range of homework activities to develop and refine skills in all curriculum subject areas

  • Shape Locations

    Shape Locations

    Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.

  • Shape Symmetry

    Shape Symmetry

    Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties

  • Shape Matching

    Shape Matching

    Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry

  • Buses, Trains, Planes

    Buses, Trains, Planes

    Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys