Classroom Management for Secondary Teachers

by Emmer, Edmund T.; Evertson, Carolyn M.; Worsham, Murray E.

Edition:

6th

ISBN13:

9780205349951

ISBN10:

0205349951

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2003

Publisher(s):

Allyn & Bacon

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Classroom Management for Secondary Teachers, Sixth Edition, gives teachers the information and skills they need to establish management systems in today's rich, multicultural classroom, based on the authors' 30 years of research and experience in more than 500 classrooms. This best-selling text helps teachers plan, implement, and develop the most basic classroom management taskto develop a smooth-running classroom that encourages learning. Written for the prospective secondary-level teacher, the text's content is ready to be applied in a classroom setting. The text addresses the planning decisions teachers must make including; arranging the physical space, establishing rules and procedures, planning and conducting instruction, encouraging appropriate behavior, addressing problem behavior, and using good communication skills with particular attention paid to the growth of ethnically diverse classrooms. All examples, checklists, case studies, and group activities are designed for the secondary level.

Preface

xiii

Organizing Your Classroom and Materials

(15)

Five Keys to Good Room Arrangement

(1)

Suggestions for Arranging Your Classroom

(8)

Bulletin Boards and Walls

(1)

Floor Space

(5)

Storage Space and Supplies

(2)

If You Have to ``Float''

(5)

Further Reading

(2)

Suggested Activities

(1)

Checklist 1: Room Preparation

(1)

Choosing Rules and Procedures

(24)

Preliminary Considerations

(7)

Definition of Terms

(1)

Identifying School Rules and Procedures

(1)

Planning Your Classroom Rules

(2)

Student Participation in Rule Setting

(1)

Consequences for Rule Violations

(1)

Planning Classroom Procedures

(1)

General Procedures

(4)

Beginning-of-Period Procedures

(2)

Use of Materials and Equipment

(1)

Ending the Period

(1)

Procedures During Seatwork and Teacher-Led Instruction

(2)

Student Attention During Presentations

(1)

Student Participation

(1)

Procedures for Seatwork

(1)

Procedures for Student Group Work

(3)

Use of Materials and Supplies

(1)

Assignment of Students to Groups

(1)

Student Goals and Participation

(1)

Cooperative Learning

(1)

Miscellaneous Procedures

(7)

Signals

(1)

Public Address (PA) Announcements and Other Interruptions

(1)

Special Equipment and Materials

(1)

Fire and Disaster Drills

(1)

Split Lunch Period

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Suggested Activities

(1)

Rules and Procedures in an Eighth-Grade Class

(1)

Procedures for Small-Group Work/Laboratory Activities

(2)

Rules and Procedures

(2)

Managing Student Work

(16)

Your Grading System and Record Keeping

(3)

Feedback and Monitoring Procedures

(2)

Monitoring Student Work in Progress

(1)

Long-Range Monitoring

(1)

Communicating Assignments and Work Requirements

(9)

Instructions for Assignments

(1)

Standards for Form, Neatness, and Due Dates

(1)

Procedures for Absent Students

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Suggested Activities

(1)

An Accountability System in an English Class

(1)

Managing Student Work in a Math Class

(1)

Managing Long-Term Assignments

(1)

Poor Work and Study Habits in Mathematics

(1)

Accountability Procedures

(2)

Getting Off to a Good Start

(31)

Perspectives on the Beginning of the Year

(1)

Planning for a Good Beginning

(5)

Procedures for Obtaining Books and Checking Them Out to Students

(1)

Required Paperwork

(1)

Class Rosters

(1)

Seating Assignments

(1)

First-Week Bell Schedule

(1)

Tardiness during the First Days of Classes

(1)

Administrative Tasks

(1)

Rules

(1)

Course Requirements

(1)

A Beginning-of-Class Routine

(1)

Time Fillers

(1)

Activities on the First Day of Classes

(4)

Before Class Begins

(1)

Administrative Tasks

(1)

Introductions

(1)

Discussion of Class Rules

(1)

Presentation of Course Requirements

(1)

An Initial Content Activity

(1)

Ending the Period

(1)

The Second Day of Classes

(1)

After the Second Day

(19)

Further Reading

(1)

Suggested Activities

(1)

Beginning the Year in a First-Year Algebra Class Using Cooperative Learning Groups

(5)

Beginning the Year in a High School Biology Class

(2)

Beginning the Year in a High School English Class Using Mastery Learning

(8)

Conduct Problems in a History Class

(1)

Preparation for the Beginning of School

(1)

Planning and Conducting Instruction

(23)

Planning Classroom Activities

(5)

Types of Activities

(4)

Organizing Activities

(2)

Kounin's Concepts for Managing Group Instruction

(5)

Preventing Misbehavior

(2)

Managing Movement

(1)

Maintaining Group Focus

(2)

Transition Management

100

(2)

Instructional Management

102

(8)

Planning

102

(1)

Presenting New Content

102

(1)

Checking for Understanding

103

(1)

Further Reading

104

(1)

Suggested Activities

105

(1)

Ms. Carpenter

105

(1)

Mr. Miller

105

(1)

Ms. Kendall

106

(1)

Kounin Concepts

106

(1)

A Science Lesson

107

(1)

Planning for Instruction

108

(2)

Managing Cooperative Learning Groups

110

(19)

Research on Cooperative Learning

112

(1)

Strategies and Routines That Support Cooperative Learning

113

(4)

Room Arrangement

113

(1)

Talk and Movement Procedures

114

(1)

Group Attention Singnals

115

(1)

Promoting Interdependence within the Group

115

(1)

Individual Accountability

116

(1)

Monitoring Student Work and Behavior

117

(1)

Interventions for Groups

118

(1)

Effective Group-Work Skills

119

(2)

Social Skills

119

(1)

Explaining Skills

120

(1)

Leadership Skills

120

(1)

Beginning the Use of Cooperative Learning Groups

121

(8)

Room Arrangement

122

(1)

Procedures and Routines

122

(1)

Forming Groups

122

(1)

Initial Group Tasks

123

(1)

Teaching Group Skills

124

(1)

Using Group and Individual Rewards

125

(1)

Further Reading

126

(1)

Suggested Activities

127

(1)

Planning for Cooperative Group Instruction

127

(2)

Maintaining Appropriate Student Behavior

129

(16)

Monitoring Student Behavior

130

(2)

Consistency

132

(1)

Prompt Management of Inappropriate Behavior

133

(1)

Four Ways to Manage Inappropriate Behavior

133

(1)

Building a Positive Climate

134

(2)

Improving Class Climate through Incentives or Rewards

136

(9)

Grades and Other Symbols

137

(1)

Recognition

137

(1)

Activities as Rewards

138

(1)

Material Incentives

139

(1)

Caution in the Use of Rewards

139

(2)

Further Reading

141

(1)

Suggested Activities

141

(1)

Examples of Incentives and Rewards

142

(3)

Communication Skills for Teaching

145

(22)

Constructive Assertiveness

147

(3)

Empathic Responding

150

(4)

Problem Solving

154

(3)

A Note on Parent Conferences

157

(10)

Further Reading

158

(1)

Suggested Activities

158

(1)

Developing Assertiveness Skills

158

(2)

Assertiveness Assessment Scales

160

(1)

Recognizing Listening Responses

161

(1)

Practicing Empathic Responses

162

(1)

Problem-Solving Exercises

162

(1)

Three Dialogues

163

(4)

Managing Problem Behaviors

167

(23)

What Is Problem Behavior?

168

(2)

Nonproblem

169

(1)

Minor Problem

169

(1)

Major Problem, but Limited in Scope and Effects

169

(1)

Escalating or Spreading Problem

169

(1)

Goals for Managing Problem Behavior

170

(1)

Management Strategies

170

(14)

Minor Interventions

172

(2)

Moderate Interventions

174

(3)

More Extensive Interventions

177

(7)

Special Problems

184

(6)

Rudeness toward the Teacher

184

(1)

Chronic Avoidance of Work

185

(1)

Fighting

186

(1)

Other Aggressive Behavior

186

(1)

Definance or Hostility toward the Teacher

187

(1)

A Final Reminder: Think and Act Positively

187

(1)

Further Reading

188

(1)

Suggested Activities

189

(1)

Managing Special Groups

190

(30)

Teaching Heterogeneous Classes

191

(7)

Assessing Entering Achievement

191

(1)

Modifying Whole-Group Instruction

192

(2)

Cooperative Work Groups

194

(1)

Small-Group Instruction

195

(2)

Mastery Learning

197

(1)

Teaching Remedial Classes

198

(5)

Learner Characteristics

199

(1)

Establishing Your Management System

200

(1)

Monitoring Behavior

201

(1)

Managing Student Work

202

(1)

Planning and Presenting Instruction

202

(1)

Students with Special Needs

203

(17)

Content Mastery Classroom (CMC)

204

(1)

Inclusion

205

(1)

Students with Emotional and/or Behavioral Problems

205

(2)

Students with Serious Social Deficits, Often Diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome

207

(1)

Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

208

(1)

Students Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing

209

(2)

Students Who Are Visually Impaired or Blind

211

(1)

Students Living in Extreme Poverty

212

(1)

Students with Limited English Proficiency

213

(2)

Further Reading

215

(1)

Suggested Activities

215

(1)

Using Small Groups in English

216

(1)

An Inclusion Program in a Middle School

217

(1)

Problem Scenarios

218

(2)

Appendix: Answer Keys for Chapter Activities

220

(10)

References

230

(5)

Index

235

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