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
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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