Strategies for Classroom Management, K-6 Making Magic Happen

by Wilson, Darlene Anderson

• ISBN13: 9781578861361
• ISBN10: 1578861365
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-10
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Wilson shows the path where a teacher can maintain excellence in academic achievement and student behavior while tilting at the windmills of societal change.

Author Biography

Darlene Anderson wilson, whose career spanned the last half of the twentieth century, has spent thirty-eight years as a teacher, acting principal, and training teacher in elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District

Table of Contents

Foreword by Dr. Joseph Schieffer	v
Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
PART 1	1	(28)
1 Do Americans Really Want Academic Success?	3	(3)
2 Is It Magic, Miracles, or Motivation?	6	(5)
3 Teaching Is an Art-Not a Science	11	(5)
4 Hey Everybody Out There! Johnny Can Read, and So Can Juan and Jose!	16	(5)
5 Discipline Is Not a Four-Letter Word-It Is a Sense of Security and Order	21	(2)
6 Why Can't We Agree on Success?	23	(6)
PART 2	29	(24)
7 The Classroom as a Community	31	(5)
8 Class Plays Promote a Sense of Community	36	(2)
9 A Sense of Community through Poetry	38	(2)
10 The Classroom as a Safe Refuge	40	(4)
11 The Classroom from the Fifties through the Nineties	44	(6)
12 From Sputnik to Tomato Seeds from Space	50	(3)
PART 3	53	(34)
13 Which Came First: Public Education or the Problems and Controversy?	55	(4)
14 Can American Students Compete Globally?	59	(5)
15 What Happens to the Mentally Gifted Student?	64	(13)
16 What Happened to the Bilingual Student in the Eighties?	77	(5)
17 The Classroom Teacher's Image on Television	82	(5)
PART 4	87	(46)
18 Belonging as a Goal	89	(3)
19 Strategies	92	(2)
20 Fun	94	(4)
21 Basic Values	98	(4)
22 Cause and Effect	102	(2)
23 Voice Effectiveness	104	(2)
24 Self-Esteem	106	(3)
25 Choices	109	(2)
26 Students Want Specific Goals	111	(2)
27 The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching	113	(20)
Epilogue	133	(2)
References	135	(2)
About the Author	137