Preventing School Violence: Guidelines for Teaching Civility and School Harmony [Hardcover]

Preventing School Violence: Guidelines for Teaching Civility and School Harmony, is an amazing resource that reminds the reader of the importance of establishing and maintaining meaningful relationships among the school community: teachers, administrators, students, families, and the community at large. As educators, we are responsible for modeling civility in our schools, by creating significant connections with others. This book provides the reader with profound scenarios, approaches and strategies to promote civility and encourage school harmony, and to explore what dignity for all really means.Marjorie S. Schieringhas devoted her career as an educator to developing teachers and learners comprehension of self- efficacy through experiential learning, which focuses on conversing with self- and others, by addressing her Model for Academic and Social Cognition She continually addresses sharing the Cognitive Collective (Reciprocal Thinking and Feelings) to establish and maintain a viable, safe, positive and congenial classroom community where there is teaching of thinking.

In Preventing School Violence, Dr. Schiering invites you to enter her classroom, where the continuity between teaching and learning, between school and home, between character and inspiring knowledge are apparent. In these pages, you will find a road-map to creating a classroom as a safe, caring, and respectful community, and as a foundation for an amiable and healthy society. Jonathan Borkum, PhD, adjunct associate, Professor of Psychology, University of Maine; Clinical Psychologist, Health Psych Maine, Waterville, Maine

In this book Dr. Schiering provides clear directions as to how to build a positive classroom community where all students treat each other in a dignified manner and positivism abounds. She emphasizes that the key to achieving this, is the teacher as role-model. In addition, Dr Schiering provides many activities which direct the student toward introspection and sls„