The literature on elementary school classroom management is reviewed. Topics include student characteristics and individual differences, preparing the classroom as a learning environment, organizing instruction and support activities to maximize student engagement in productive tasks, developing workable housekeeping procedures and conduct rules,…

Survey results show that planning and constant vigilance are the price of effective teaching. Effective classroom management involves awareness, good organizational skills, preparation, letting students know what is expected of them and following through, and the ability to diagnose student problems. (CT)

Classroom research linking teaching behavior and classroom management to student learning, especially in the area of basic skills, is reviewed. (JMF)

Provides guidelines for using classroom observation and feedback to improve teaching skills. (CM)

Reviews research concerning how teachers determine the content their students learn and discusses both the conscious decision making involved in selecting curriculum and the unwitting reductions and distortions introduced into intended curriculum in the process of attempting to teach. (Author/MP)

Present and possible future process-outcome research is assessed, with emphasis on methodological considerations. Compilation of detailed normative data about classrooms, and explication and integration of process-process as well as process-outcome relations are suggested. Studies designed with particular contexts in mind rather than classroom…