Principles of Classroom Management : A Professional Decision-Making Model

by Levin, James; Nolan, James F.

• ISBN13: 9780205625024
• ISBN10: 0205625029
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-29
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

In its sixth edition,Principles of Classroom Managementapproaches creating positive learning environments by providing teachers with a theoretically based yet highly practical system for preventing disruptive behavior and influencing appropriate behavior. Written for classroom management and general methods courses, this concise text presents an array of decision-making options that guide teachers in thinking about how to approach particular classroom management situations and choose from a range of options designed to prevent, cope with, and solve a range of problems. A variety of theoretical perspectives, each fleshed out with cases taken from actual classrooms, gives teachers and prospective teachers many choices for handling issues that may arise in their classrooms. The new sixth edition of this thoroughly revised and updated text includes the most current issues surfacing in classroom management such as cyber bullying as well as expanded discussions of effective teaching techniques, functional behavior assessment, violence in the media, cultural synchronization, and student resiliency. The new edition also includes an expanded number of classroom management models.

Table of Contents

Preface

Foundations

The Basics

Defining the Process of Teaching

Getting Students to Respond

Why Study? We Don't Get Enough Time for the Test Anyway

Principles of Classroom Management

Professional Decision-Making Hierarchy

The Vice-Principal Wants to See Whom?

Nature of the Discipline Problem

Defining a Discipline Problem

Can a Teacher Be a Discipline Problem?

Solving a Motivational Problem

Extent of the Problem

The Effect of Classroom Discipline Problems on Teaching and Learning

Discipline: A Costly Waste of Time

The Ripple Effect

Understanding Why Children Misbehave

Societal Changes

This Is the Greatest Thing That Has Happened to Me in Twenty Years of Teaching

Who Really Cares?

Failure to Meet Children's Basic Needs

Hanging on the Corner

Marital Conflict

Forgetting to Sit Down

There Must Be a Better Way

Too Much Noise

Afraid of Going to School

Turning Off Students

Children's Pursuit of Social Recognition and Self-Esteem

I'm Going to Be Sorry When Fifth Grade Is Over

Seeking Faulty Goals

Self Esteem

Bullying and Cyberbullying

Get out of My Face

Stages of Cognitive and Moral Development

Instructional Competence

Not Being Able to Teach

Philosophical Approaches to Classroom Management

The Tricks-of-the-Trade Alpproach

Teacher Power Bases

The Involved Teacher

Her Reputation Precedes Her

School Is Your Job

Going to Recess

Handling Disruptive David

Prevention

The Professional Teacher

The Basics of Effective Teaching

Lesson Design

Student Motivation: Teacher Variables

The Popcorn Popper

Talking between Classes

Nonconstructive Feedback

Teacher Expectations

Classroom Questioning

Maximizing Learning Time

Beyond the Basics

Teaching for Understanding

Authentic Instruction

Creating Communities of Learners

Teaching toward Multiple Intelligences

Cooperative Learning in Biology

Three Years of History Rolled into One

Structuring the Environment

Designing the Physical Classroom Environment

Establishing Classroom Guidelines

Fourteen to Ten, Music Wins

Having Your Name Placed on the Board Isn't Always Bad

I Don't Know if I Can Remember

I'm Not Promising Anything

Calling out Correct Alnswers

The Smiley Face Self-Alnalysis

The Cultural Embeddedness of Rules and Guidelines

Believing What You Want to

No One Looks Like Me

Creating Group Norms to Structure Appropriate Behavior

Interventions For Common Behavior Problems

Managing Common Behavior Problems: Nonverbal Interventions

Prerequisites to Management

Surface Behaviors

"... 3 ,2, 1, Blast Off

Proactive Intervention Skills

Remedial Intervention Skills

Effectiveness of Nonverbal Coping Skills

Notes versus Math

Let Your Fingers Do the Walking

Coping with Common Behavior Problems: Verbal Interventions and Use of Logical Consequences

Blowing His Stack

Classroom Verbal Intervention

Jimmy, the Little Sneak

Comply or Face the Logical Consequences: You Have a Choice

When You Have a Choic

Doesn't Work

Doing Nothin'

Interventions For Chronic Behavior Problems

Classroom Interventions for Chronic Behavior Problems

I Just Dropped My Book

Relationship Building

Darnell

Relating to Cindy

Breaking the Cycle of Discouragement

Talking to Solve Problems

Specific Short-Term Problem-Solving Strategies

Seeking Outside Alssistance

The Nature of Persisting Misbehavior

When Outside Assistance Is Needed

The Referral Process

Working with Parents

In Order to Drive, You Must Speak Spanish

Won't Be Much Help

Symptoms of Serious Problems

Legal Aspects of Seeking Outside Alssistance

The Discipline Problem Analysis Inventory (Dpai)

Have I Done All I Can to Prevent Misbehavior?

The Basics

Nature of the Discipline Problem

Understanding Why Children Misbehave

Philosophical Approaches to Classroom Management

The Professional Teacher

Structuring the Environment

Am I Effectively Resolving Misbehavior?

Managing Common Misbehavior Problems: Nonverbal Intervention

Managing Common Misbehavior Problems: Verbal Interventions and Use of Logical Consequences

Classroom Interventions for Chronic Problems

Seeking Outside Alssistance

General Guidelines for Working with Special Needs Students

Decisions and Tasks for Beginning the School Year

Index

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