classroom management

Provides before-and-after photographs, along with step-by-step instructions on organizing preschool through fifth grade classrooms, and covers furniture placement, wall space, and other related topics; and also provides time-saving advice on packing at the end of the school year.

Presents classroom-tested techniques and practical know-how for helping children with attention deficit disorders--with or without hyperactivity.

Describes the six-step conflict resolution process, called "Talk It Out," developed by educator Barbara Porro to teach students to solve their own real-life problems, such as teasing, cheating, hitting, and others, and includes lesson plans, scripts, and other resource tools.

A guide for teachers who are trying to give up the system of boss-managing and implement the techniques of lead-management to create classrooms in which all students do competent, and even quality, work.

Recommends a major change in the structure of teaching and in the role of the teacher through the implementation of learning-teams, a program, based on the control theory of human behavior, which is designed to significantly increase the number of students who are willing to work harder in school.

A zero tolerance policy in school is a current issue that is of particular interest to young teens.

Explains why students are more likely to learn and flourish in schools that have moved toward collaborative problem solving instead of teacher-initiated discipline.

Explains why time-outs are often an ineffective discipline method for children in the home and classroom and presents effective strategies for making time-outs a positive learning experience for children.