Comprehensive Classroom Management - 9780132697088

Arguing that an effective learning atmosphere requires good classroom management skills, Vernon and Louise Jones (both teacher education, Lewis and Clark College) outline research-based strategies for teachers, administrators, special educators, counselors, and school psychologists to use to create positive, supportive, respectful environments. They focus on five skills: developing an understanding of students' needs; establishing positive student-teacher and peer relationships; using organizational and group management methods that maximize on-task behavior; implementing instruction that facilitates learning; and using counseling and behavioral methods that involve students in examining behavior that negatively affects learning. This edition has a reorganized chapter on the comprehensive classroom management plan, more emphasis on the implications of brain research for student learning and behavior, new discussion of the influence of gender, integration of Green and Ablon's social cognitive development theory and collaborative problem solving approach, new material on serving students from culturally diverse backgrounds, new research, a section on strategies for dealing with common disruptions, and discussions of issues in disciplining students with special needs, the effectiveness of zero tolerance policies, and the use of "travel cards" as a behavior change strategy. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)