classroom management

Presents strategies and practical tactics, tested in urban, suburban, and rural schools, for building a successful prevention program for learning, behavior, and emotional problems in one's school.

Reveals seven simple teaching strategies that can help teachers effectively manage their time, improve classroom participation, and engage their students in learning.

Provides strategies to help elementary school teachers create a multicultural classroom, discussing classroom discipline, arrangement, parent and community involvement, and instruction.

Teaching is more than a job--it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But teaching is no easy task. It's an art form that requires craft, sensitivity, creativity, and intelligence. Whether the classroom consists of 3 students or 300, it's important to be as effective and successful a teacher as possible, both for the students and for professional and personal growth. This course is designed to help develop and enhance teaching style; provide methods, tools, and advice for handling all manner of teaching scenarios; and help viewers achieve new levels of success as teachers.

"With its new focus on younger students and special tools for handling "strong-willed" children, this edition offers schoolteachers the tools they need to gain control of their classrooms--respectfully and effectively."--back cover.