In the Sixth Edition, the practical orientation of prior editions has been retained with its pedagogy that leads pre-service and in-service teachers to discover how to apply research-based strategies in their own classroom. Teachers are prompted to analyze, contrast, and compare the cases - leading them to develop strategies for (a) establishing safe, nurturing classroom communities, (b) efficiently managing classroom time, (c) fostering cooperative relationships and healthy productive interactions, (d) effectively communicating with students and their parents, (e) establishing and enforcing standards of conduct and procedures for classroom routines, (f) collaborating in the development and implementation of schoolwide safety and discipline policies, (g) working with individual differences among students, (h) accommodating students' exceptionalities, (i) utilizing the diversity among students to build strong, productive classroom communities, (j) teaching students to productively manage conflict, (k) motivating students to engage in learning activities, (l) conducting engaging learning activities, (m) effectively teaching students to supplant off-task behaviors with on-task behaviors, and (n) effectively dealing with misbehaviors - both nonviolent and violent.

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Discusses the role of parents and teachers, argues that positive rather than negative discipline should be used with children, and provides practical examples

Product Description: This book offers a practical, realistic and positive guide for both prospective and experienced teachers working to improve their classroom management skills. Contents: Critical Incidents in Teaching; Discipline, the Most Important Subject We Teach; The Extent of the Problem; Why Students Misbehave; Discipline and the First-Year Teacher; Discipline and What You Might Share With Parents; A Perspective on Discipline; Ten Principles for Working with Adolescents; Punishment, A Legitimate Part of Teaching? Swearing, Lying, and Cheating: Developing a Conceptual Framework From Which to React; A Message from Those Who Survive; Models of Discipline; We Have Support to Do the Job We Need to Do! Role Playing and Discipline; A Final Word for Educators...read more

Discusses the role of parents and teachers, argues that positive rather than negative discipline should be used with children, and provides practical examples

Product Description: This basic text provides teachers with useful strategies for achieving control in the classroom through intervention rather than punishment. Author Meryl Englander examines why punishment is an ineffective tool and details step-by-step strategies and techniques for intervention including building self esteem among students, resolution of students' personal problems and emotional outbursts, promoting student responsibility, facilitating moral development, reinforcing desired student behavior, and establishing antecendent controls on behavior...read more

With the latest teaching methods as his basis, the author tells parents how to use consequences and reinforcers to teach children the proper behavior for school and everyday living

The Effect of Praise and Competition on the Persisting Behavior of Kindergarten Children was first published in 1939. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.No. 15, Institute of Child Welfare Monograph SeriesIn this study of five-year-olds, an experimenting psychologist has gone beyond previous investigators and attempted to show what factors in the presentation of a task and also in a child’s permanent social field seem to be related to persisting behavior and motivation.Important for psychologists, school principals and teachers, and all who would understand the effect of incentives, is her finding that the nature of the task and – in at least some instances – the order of its presentation in a series have a marked effect on persisting performance.