Ms. Ola Hemphill taught mathematics in the Detroit Public Schools system for 25 years. She retired in 2001. During her tenure she developed and utilized a classroom management system to monitor (chart) and modify inappropriate student behavior. The success of the system led to co-workers seeking her help to improve classroom management skills.
In 1994 Ms. Hemphill wrote her first classroom management book, 'The Classroom Monitoring System.' Her second book, 'When Kids Don't Listen' (2002), was an updated version of the first book. Ms. Hemphill recently released a 3rd edition of the first two books under the title, These Kids Have Changed (2009). She signed a national distribution contract for the current edition (2010) that can now be purchased from several sellers that include Barnes & Noble.
Ms. Hemphill is also the author of a set of math cards, Multiplication Facts All By Myself. The card set gives a student an opportunity to have fun as he/she practice multiplication facts without the help of another person. Ms. Hemphill has been blessed to have the cards purchased by several schools in Michigan, Ohio and Texas.
Ms. Hemphill has conducted classroom management workshops that include 'The African American Child in Crisis Conferences' held in Detroit, MI at Cobo Hall, 1995 and 1996. She currently conducts workshops for schools and accepts temporary assignments to work as a classroom management and/or mathematics consultant.
ORDER IN THE TEACHER'S COURT!!
Yes! The classroom is the teacher's
court! But, unlike a judge
conducting a court session, a
teacher cannot bang on a desk with a
gavel to gain students attention
WHEN KIDS DON'T LISTEN!
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