Group work doesn't have to be a classroom management headache. At Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, where collaboration is one of five core values, students regularly participate in group projects. To support productive group work, the staff uses several strategies: apply these strategies to your next group project to ensure students…

Classroom management and discipline are dimensions of teachers' professional competence skills that develop as pedagogical skills first, then control skills, finally humanistic skills. Suggestions from three authors to help teachers reach the level of humanistic discipline are offered. (MLF)