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Free Classroom Management Resources

Effective classroom management—creating an environment where students can learn and thrive—is the cornerstone of successful teaching. This curated collection of resources offers a comprehensive toolkit to enhance your classroom management skills. Whether you're a novice teacher seeking foundational guidance or a seasoned educator looking to refine your practice, this collection provides valuable insights and practical tools to help you create a productive, engaging, and harmonious classroom atmosphere.

Grades 1-12

Wheel of Names

Try this popular online tool for random name selection, decision-making, or prize giveaways! Input a list of names, options, or items, and this tool will turn your list into a wheel you can spin to make a random selection.

Grades K-12

Classtools Countdown Timer

Spice up any countdown with this versatile yet easy-to-use countdown timer. Follow the prompts to take advantage of options like running multiple timers, adding music or video, and creating a link you can use to share your timer.

Grades K-12

Duck Soup

Duck Soup transforms PDFs and Word documents into interactive e-sheets, enabling paperless classrooms. Features include real-time feedback, digital writing, timed submissions, retry options, question weighting, and seamless integration with Google Drive.

Grades 6-12

Classmill

Classmill allows you to create your own online classes by uploading videos, links, files, and images. Create an account to start your class, or explore classes others have created. Several privacy options are available.

Grades 5-12

Showbie

Use Showbie to assign, collect, and review student work. Create your class list, share the class code with your students, and add assignments, due dates, videos, files, and more. Showbie is available both on the web and as an app.

Grades K-12

The Teacher Toolkit

Discover diverse strategies you can use to engage your students. This site offers a video overview and categorized tools for opening/closing activities, comprehension checks, and reading strategies. Most tools feature demonstrative videos.

Grades 6-12

GoConqr

Check out this excellent tool for uploading and sharing class notes, flashcards, quizzes, and more. Enter your email to sign up for their free membership, which gives you access to three subjects and 20 public resources.

Grades K-8

Classroom Freebies

The Classroom Freebies resource library contains thousands of free materials for grades K–8. These include task cards, classroom management charts, coloring sheets, worksheets, and posters.

Grades K-12

LivingTree

LivingTree is an online collaborative tool for teachers, parents, and students. Share messages, photos, files, and more in 100+ languages instantly. Create a shared calendar where all members can contribute information and collaborate.

Grades K-12

Classroom Management: Face-to-Face, Hybrid, & Virtual

Effective classroom management involves routines, rules, and expectations to keep students engaged, encourage good behavior, and maintain smooth procedures. View this professional learning module and earn a professional learning certificate.

This Week at TeachersFirst

This week, we're sharing a curated collection of classroom management tools and a blog post chock full of ideas for starting your school year right! Finally, we're delighted to share an opportunity to apply to join our team as a part-time consultant. Read the details below!