The Calm Classroom Handbook

A Practical Guide for Substitutes, Cover Teachers, and New Educators Everywhere

De: Mind2Teaching Publishing

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The Calm Classroom Handbook

A Practical Guide for Substitutes, Cover Teachers, and New Educators Everywhere

Stepping into an unfamiliar classroom can feel overwhelming — but it doesn’t have to. The Calm Classroom Handbook gives substitutes, cover teachers, temps, interns, and newly qualified educators a clear, practical method for creating calm, focus, and learning in any room, on any day.

Built on modern classroom psychology and hundreds of real-world strategies, this handbook shows you exactly how to guide a class you’ve never met before: from the first minute at the door, through the work phase, to a strong and steady ending. Whether you teach once a year or every day, you’ll learn how to create structure, connection, and confidence fast — even with mixed levels, high energy, or challenging behaviour.

Inside you’ll learn how to:

• Start any lesson with calm presence and leadership

• Reduce anxiety and uncertainty in the first five minutes

• Give clear instructions that students actually follow

• Stabilise a noisy or unsettled room without raising your voice

• Manage ADHD, anxiety, and sensory overload with simple regulation tools

• Reset the room in seconds using predictable routines

• De-escalate conflict while protecting student dignity

• Communicate with warmth and authority (not strictness or permissiveness)

• Close the lesson strongly so students leave regulated and ready for tomorrow

• Leave professional notes teachers appreciate — without breaking confidentiality

Designed for substitute teachers, supply teachers, cover supervisors, relief teachers, para-educators, teaching assistants, and anyone asked to lead a class, this handbook offers clear guidance that works across age groups, cultures, and school systems.

If you’ve ever wished for a simple “map” of how to enter a room, guide learning, respond to big feelings, and leave everything better than you found it — this is the book.

A calm classroom is not luck. It is a method you can learn.

And once you learn it, you can bring it into any room.

Perfect for:

• Substitute teachers

• Cover or supply teachers (UK/Ireland)

• Relief teachers (Australia/NZ)

• Teaching assistants stepping up

• Newly qualified teachers

• Teacher training programs

• School administrators

• Temp agencies serving schools

• Anyone teaching students they don’t yet know