Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers
ISBN: 9780205578603 | 0205578608
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 2/19/2008
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"Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers, Eighth Edition, gives teachers the information and skills they need to establish management systems in today's rich, multicultural classroom, based on the authors' many years of research and experience in more than 500 classrooms."--BOOK JACKET.
This best-selling book helps teachers plan, implement, and develop the most basic classroom management tasks to build a smoothly running classroom that encourages learning. Written for the prospective or new middle ... MORE
This best-selling book helps teachers plan, implement, and develop the most basic classroom management tasks to build a smoothly running classroom that encourages learning. Written for the prospective or new middle ... MORE
| Preface | |
| Organizing Your Classroom and Materials | |
| Five Keys to Good Room Arrangement | |
| Suggestions for Arranging Your Classroom | |
| If You Have to "Float" | |
| Further Reading | |
| Suggested Activities | |
| Checklist 1: Room Preparation | |
| Choosing Rules and Procedures | |
| Why Rules and Procedures Are Needed | |
| General Procedures | |
| Procedures During Seatwork and Teacher-Led Instruction | |
| Procedures For Student Group Work | |
| Miscellaneous Procedures | |
| Further Reading | |
| Suggested Activities | |
| Case Study 2.1: Classroom Rules and Procedures in an Eighth-Grade Class | |
| Case Study 2.2: Procedures for Small-Group Work/Laboratory Activities | |
| Checklist 2: Rules and Procedures | |
| Managing Student Work | |
| Your Grading System and Record Keeping | |
| Feedback and Monitoring Procedures | |
| Communicating Assignments and Work Requirements | |
| Further Reading | |
| Suggested Activities | |
| Case Study 3.1: An Accountability System in an English Class | |
| Case Study 3.2: Managing Student Work in a Math Class | |
| Case Study 3.3: Managing Long-Term Assignments | |
| Case Study 3.4: Poor Work and Study Habits in Mathematics | |
| Checklist 3: Procedures for Managing Student Work | |
| Getting Off to a Good Start | |
| Perspectives on the Beginning of the Year | |
| Planning for a Good Beginning | |
| Activities on the First Day of Classes | |
| The Second Day of Classes | |
| After the Second Day | |
| Further Reading | |
| Suggested Activities | |
| Case Study 4.1: Beginning the Year in a First-Year Algebra Class Using Cooperative Learning Groups | |
| Case Study 4.2: Beginning the Year in a High School Biology Class | |
| Case Study 4.3: Conduct Problems in a History Class | |
| Checklist 4: Preparation for the Beginning of School | |
| Planning and Conducting Instruction | |
| Planning Classroom Activities | |
| Organization Activities | |
| Kounin's Concepts for Managing Group Instruction | |
| Transition Management | |
| Instructional Management | |
| Further Reading | |
| Suggested Activities | |
| Case Study 5.1: Over and Over | |
| Case Study 5.2: Transition Problems | |
| Case Study 5.3: Problems with Small-Group and Discussion Activities | |
| Case Study 5.4: Kounin Concepts | |
| Case Study 5.5: A Science Lesson | |
| Checklist 5: Planning for Instruction | |
| Managing Cooperative Learning Groups | |
| Research on Cooperative Learning | |
| Strategies and Routines That Support Cooperative Learning | |
| Monitoring Student Work and Behavior | |
| Interventions for Groups | |
| Effective Group Work Skills | |
| Beginning the Use of Cooperative Learning Groups | |
| Further Reading | |
| Suggested Activities | |
| Checklist 6: Planning for Cooperative Group Instruction | |
| Maintaining Appropriate Student Behavior | |
| Monitoring Student Behavior | |
| Consistency | |
| Prompt Management of Inappropriate Behavior | |
| Building a Positive Climate | |
| Improving Class Climate through Incentives or Rewards | |
| Further Reading | |
| Suggested Activities | |
| Case Study 7.1: Examples of Incentives and Rewards | |
| Communication Skills for Teaching | |
| Constructive Assertiveness | |
| Empathetic Responding | |
| Problem Solving | |
| Talking with Parents | |
| Further Reading | |
| Suggested Activities | |
| Assertiveness Assessment Scales | |
| Case Study 8.1: Three Dialogues | |
| Managing Problem Behaviors | |
| What Is Problem Behavior | |
| Goals for Managing Problem Behavior | |
| Management Strategies | |
| Special Problems | |
| Further Reading | |
| Suggested Activities | |
| Managing Special Groups | |
| Teaching Heterogeneous Classes | |
| Teaching Remedial Classes | |
| Students with Special | |
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