classroom management

Offers teachers of kindergarten through twelfth grade practical advice and strategies to help them improve their students' executive function skills, including attention and impulse control, time management, and organization.

Offers teachers of grades six through twelve effective strategies for dealing with discipline problems and classroom-management issues, with suggestions for controlling the classroom, dealing with discipline problems immediately, using peer pressure to improve behavior, and understanding students' motivations.

Describes strategies educators can use to prevent and effectively respond to problem behavior in kindergarten through high school classrooms, and includes reproducible checklists, assessment tools, and planning forms.

Discusses how to help students develop internal motivation and engagement in the classroom. Explores four pillars of engagement: intellectual urgency, emotional resonance, perspective bending, and the aesthetic world.

Shares ways for teachers to transition from disciplinarian or goody dispenser toward a professionally satisfying model for classroom management, with strategies for addressing misbehavior and refocusing on learning goals.

"In Positive Discipline Tools for Teachers, you will learn how to successfully incorporate respectful, solution-oriented approaches to ensure a cooperative and productive classroom. Using tools like "Connection Before Correction," "Four Problem-Solving Steps," and "Focusing on Solutions," teachers will be able to focus on student-centered learning, rather than wasting time trying to control their students' behavior"--Back cover.

"Shows teachers how to establish and maintain good management habits in their classrooms through an easy-to-understand program"--Back cover.

Offers teachers, administrators, and counselors practical suggestions for teaching class clowns while allowing them to share their blend of humor and intelligence in a manner that remains conducive to learning.