Classroom Management: A Proactive Approach [Paperback]

• The Classroom Management Pyramid, is a visual model for readersutilized in order to help organize the major themes featured throughout the text.
  o Helps the reader understand how complex interactions form a platform for effective classroom management, and enhances understanding.
• Anecdotes are used liberally throughout the textto help the reader better understand in a concrete fashion how specific strategies are put into practices, hence enhancing readability.
• Covers some of the most contemporary educational issuesincluding bullying, cliques, at-risk and special education students.
  o Provides practical application of research-based practices such as social skill instruction.
• Provides practical and research-based alternatives to promote self efficacy and avoid punishment and rewards as motivators.  Promotes how motivation is the most important single issue in classroom management.
  o Instructs educators on the benefits of encouraging their students to take risks, trust their thinking, and move beyond the burden of right vs. wrong answers.

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Proactive Classroom Management

PART I. Community

Chapter 2 Building a Classroom Community

Chapter 3 Developing Positive Student-Teacher Relationships

PART II. Prevention

Chapter 4 Managing Groups

Chapter 5 Enhancing Student Motivation

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