Solving Discipline and Classroom Management Problems: Methods and Models for Today's Teachers, 5th Edition

by Charles H. Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9780471393511
• ISBN10: 0471393517
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Now in its Fifth Edition, Wolfgang2s Solving Discipline and Classroom Management Problems offers a wide variety of methods teachers can use to deal with a range of discipline problems in the classroom-from minor misbehavior to serious assaults. In addition to examining in detail the various discipline approaches within the Rules-Consequences, Confronting-Contracting, and Relationship-Listening models, Wolfgang2s new edition explores classrom management and its relationship with-and effect on-discipline issues. New to This Edition: New models including Dobson2s Leadership-Punishment; Albert2s Cooperative Discipline; and selections from Alfie Kohn2s Punishment by Rewards Exploration of classroom management issues through the research and writings of Kounin, Evertson, and Emmer Discipline incident vignettes to demonstrate how each model would address particular situations End-of-chapter questions and concept tests to gauge the reader2s understanding of vocabulary and key concepts Hallmark Features: Clear explanation of each model, with an analysis of strengths and weaknesses Balanced, unbiased approach to the many methods and models for classroom discipline Numerous examples and illustrations showing students how to implement each model in specific situations

Author Biography

Charles H. Wolfgang has provided discipline training nationally and internationally for more than 25 years. He has been a classroom teacher at the preschool, elementary, and middle-school levels; a counselor in a boarding high school; and a school principal. His theoretical framework is based on his scholarly work as a professor of education at The Ohio State University, The University of Virginia, and Florida State University.

Table of Contents

1. Discipline Philosophies as a Developmental Process

2. Discipline, Teacher Power, and Systems of Managment

3. The Behavior Analysis Model

4. Positive Discipline Model

5. Assertive Discipline

6. Other Rules-Consequences Models

7.The Social Discipline Model of Rudolph Dreikurs-Adlerian Theory

8. Reality Therapy, Control Theory, and the Quality School

9. Judicious Descipline

10. Other Confronting-Contracting Models

11. Teacher Effectiveness Training, T.E.T.

12. Other Relationship-Listening Models

13. Classroom Management: A Preventative Process

14. Designing One's Own Model of Discipline

Appendix: Classroom Discipline Incidents and Problems: Let's Apply What We've Learned