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Managing the Adolescent Classroom

Lessons From Outstanding Teachers
By: Glenda Beamon Crawford

Foreword by Thomas O. Erb

Uncover the secrets of teachers who are recognized as outstanding classroom managers!

Drawing on 14 case studies of exemplary teachers to showcase adolescent classroom management at its best, Managing the Adolescent Classroom provides beginning and experienced teachers many new entry points to improve their own management. Reflective chapter questions and discussion prompts make this a productive resource for study groups and mentors as well as classroom teachers. This book shows how to triangulate management around three essential factors:

  • Physical- -leveraging time, space, and structured environment
  • leveraging time, space, and structured environment
  • Affective--strategies to promote positive personal and interpersonal development
  • Cognitive--use of instructional pace and engagement to motivate behavior
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    Product Details
    • Grade Level: PreK-12
    • ISBN: 9780761931072
    • Published By: Corwin
    • Year: 2004
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publication date: June 24, 2004

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    Description

    Description

    Uncover the secrets of teachers who are recognized as outstanding classroom managers!

    Through fourteen case studies of exemplary teachers, Crawford showcases adolescent classroom management at its best. Teachers can draw from this rich store of individual tips, secrets, and procedures and adapt these management solutions immediately. Along with these variations on classic elements of success, Crawford also provides many new entry points for new and experienced teachers to improve their own management. Reflective chapter questions and discussion prompts make this a productive resource for study groups and mentors as well as classroom teachers.

    Managing the Adolescent Classroom demonstrates how to triangulate great management around three essential factors:

    • Physical-- leveraging time, space, and a structured environment
    • Affective--strategies to promote positive personal and interpersonal development
    • Cognitive--use of instructional pace and engagement to motivate behavior and commitment to learning

    By successfully managing the physical, social-emotional, and academic dimensions of the classroom environment, teachers can create an essential foundation for a learning community of young adolescents that will promote relationships, belonging, and achievement.


    Key features

    • Meets the particular needs of middle school classroom teachers
    • Recognizes the unique cognitive, social, emotional developmental locus of middle schoolers and the implications for classroom management
    • Showcases real exemplary classroom managers across subjects and dempgraphics
    • Brings expert perspective on management through environment, engagement, community and instructional pace
    • Includes tips and insights from successful managers
    • Provides reflective questions for mentor pairs and teacher study groups
    Author(s)

    Author(s)

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    Glenda Beamon Crawford

    Glenda Beamon Crawford’s experiences with young adolescent learners span nearly thirty years. She has taught in grades 4–12 and currently coordinates the middle grades program at Elon University, where she is a professor of teacher education. She has authored three books, including Managing the Adolescent Classroom and Sparking the Thinking of Students, Ages 10–14, as well as articles on structuring classrooms for adolescent thinking and learning. She consults and presents regularly at state, national, and international conferences. Her research and teaching honors include the 2002 North Carolina Award for Outstanding Contribution to Gifted Education, the North Carolina ASCD Outstanding Research Award, and the Teacher of the Year Award.
    Table of Contents

    Table of Contents

    List of Figures


    Foreword


    Acknowledgments


    About the Author


    1. Introduction and Overview

    2. Management Through High Engagement

    3. Shifting Speed - Not Lowering Expectations

    4. Shifting Responsibility to Students

    5. Making the Physical Environment a Partner

    6. Knowing What Works for You

    7. Believing Less Is More and Positive Is Better

    8. The School Context

    9. How the Best Middle Level Teachers Manage

    Resource A: Collective Advice for New Teachers


    Resource B: Twenty of Our Best Recommendations for Classroom Management


    Resource C: Teacher Profiles


    Resource D: Featured Outstanding Teachers


    References


    Index


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