classroom management

A guide for adults working with gifted children that explains what giftedness means, how gifted students are identified, and how the identification and education process of gifted students can be improved.

Encourages teachers to rethink learning and to change the use of time so children can be lifelong readers and writers.

Presents over one hundred tips and strategies for kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers that helps them to create a safe classroom environment, identify potential bullies, and communicate effective with parents, and contains forty-five pages of reproducible handout masters.

Provides descriptions of twenty-five procedures for teachers and students that aid in classroom management, including reaching objectives, maintaining composure, conducting parent conferences, attending assemblies, and dismissing students.

Louisiana-based educational author and speaker Breaux is a former curriculum coordinator and classroom teacher; she now trains and supports new teachers, trains assessors for the Louisiana Dept. of Education, and is an international presenter for the Bureau of Education and Research. The 20 chapters of her text offer new and experienced teachers, mentors, instructional coaches, and staff developers a look at 20 common teaching mistakes and how the best teachers avoid and correct them in order to take charge of themselves and their classrooms to create a calm, caring, structured learning environment. A sampling of topics: assuming students already know, engaging in power struggles, allowing for unstructured time, failing to organize, lowering expectations, neglecting priorities, being inconsistent, delaying feedback, and refusing to acknowledge mistakes. No subject index. Annotation ?2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).