Teaching Children to Care : Classroom Management for Ethical and Academic Growth, K-8

by Charney, Ruth Sidney

• ISBN13: 9781892989086
• ISBN10: 1892989085
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools Inc

Summary

This definitive work about classroom management will show teachers how to turn their vision of respectful, friendly, academically rigorous classrooms into reality

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(2)
Foreword	3	(4)
Section I: Building a Learning Community	7	(132)
Intentions	17	(10)
I See You, I See Everything	27	(42)
Making the Rules with Children	69	(38)
Teaching the Rules	107	(16)
The Critical Contract: A Student's Individual Goals for the Year	123	(16)
Section II: Making the community Work	139	(88)
Using Logical Consequences When Rules Are Broken	143	(22)
Time-Out: Establishing Boundaries and Promoting Self-Control	165	(26)
The Five Percent	191	(20)
Working Together to Support the Rules	211	(16)
Section III: The Voices of Teaching	227	(46)
Empowering Language: Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say	233	(14)
Stress the Deed, Not the Doer	247	(18)
The Voices of Authority	265	(8)
Section IV: Further Strategies for Difficult Classroom Behaviors	273	(88)
Problem-Solving Class Meetings	277	(28)
Teachers as Mirrors: Using Social Conferences	305	(34)
Individual Contracts	339	(22)
Section V: Clear Positives	361	(42)
Teaching by Clear Positives: Revisiting Ideals	369	(14)
Clear Positives in Action	383	(20)
Conclusion: Authentic Teaching	403	(6)
Appendix A	409	(4)
Appendix B	413	(6)
Appendix C	419	(6)
Appendix D	425	(2)
Appendix E	427	(6)
Recommended Resources	433