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Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom
By: Alene H. Harris, Justin D. Garwood
Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom guides teachers in developing effective classroom management techniques, with a particular focus on students with emotional or behavioral disorders.
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781071830789
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2021
- Page Count: 232
- Publication date: March 29, 2021
Price: $39.95
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Description
Teachers who excel at classroom management have students who are more engaged, less disruptive, and more likely to achieve academically. What can you do to confront behavior challenges, both in-person and virtually, and set your classroom on a positive course?
Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom guides new and veteran teachers alike in developing effective classroom management techniques, with a particular focus on students with emotional or behavioral disorders. Addressing six interrelated topics—student perceptions of you as teacher, room arrangement, classroom expectations, consequences to encourage appropriate behavior, student lesson engagement, and classroom community—this step-by-step guide empowers teachers to create a positive and effective learning environment that is grounded in the student-teacher relationship. Each chapter includes:
• Vignettes inspired by real classrooms and students
• Ideas and techniques for successfully addressing common problems
• A “What Research Tells Us” feature that relates current research findings to the effective management of inclusive classrooms
• Self-assessment inventories linked to each topic, plus more than 50 activities to guide teachers in applying key concepts and strategies in their own classroom
Now is the time to alter the course of your classroom! Effective, relationship-based behavior management keeps students on track and makes your classroom a better place to teach and to learn.
Author(s)
Alene H. Harris
Alene Harris, PhD, is a retired professor from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University who for 50 years was a certified teacher in both elementary and secondary (English Language Arts and Life Sciences) levels. Her background includes 16 years of classroom teaching and 23 years of university teaching, including over 2,000 mostly middle school students, with a smattering of elementary and high school, in urban, suburban, and independent schools; and over 1,000 college students, mostly graduate students returning for a master’s plus teaching licensure, at Peabody College.
Her expertise includes classroom management, lesson design, and staff development. She has more than 25 years of educational research in classroom management and lesson design and effective teaching, including federally funded research in classroom management and inclusion students (elementary); student self-monitoring and its effect on special education placement (elementary); and lesson design, student engagement, and academic achievement (secondary and postsecondary).
As an educational consultant, Alene has developed and led teacher-level workshops in classroom management with more than 5,000 K-12 teachers and administrators, training-of-trainers workshops in classroom management to more than 800 school systems staff developers, and workshops in lesson design with more than 1,000 university professors and doctoral students. This staff development includes experiences in 30 states, one American territory, and the country of Costa Rica.
Justin D. Garwood
Justin D. Garwood, PhD, is a current university faculty member in the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont and is active with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) across multiple divisions, including the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders (CCBD), Division of Learning Disabilities, Division for Research, and Teacher Education Division. Within CCBD, he serves as secretary (a nationally elected position) on the executive board. Justin routinely presents at the CEC national conference as well as at the annual conference for Teacher Educators for Children with Behavior Disorders. In his role as university professor, he teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels focused on behavior management, academic intervention, and inclusion.
An author of more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, Garwood’s research has received national accolades. In 2018, he was awarded the CEC Early Career Publication Award for his research focused on behavior management of youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBDs). In 2019, he received the Research Article of the Year Award from the American Council on Rural Special Education for his study of burnout among educators serving youth with disabilities. Justin has served as an expert witness before a US Commission on Civil Rights hearing regarding appropriate approaches to disciplinary practices in schools. Currently, and with support from the US Department of Education, he is studying burnout among special education teachers serving students with EBDs.
Table of Contents
Why This Book
Questions You Might Have Before You Begin
Introduction
Area One: Students’ Perceptions of You as Their Teacher
Area Two: Physical Arrangement of the Classroom and Materials
Area Three: Expectations and Procedures by Which Your Classroom Runs
Area Four: Consequences You Choose to Use to Encourage Appropriate Behavior
Area Five: Students’ Engagement in Academic Lessons
Area Six: Classroom Climate and Communication
Appendices: Charts, Resources, Reproducibles, and Keys of Possible Answers
References
Reviews
"If you are looking for practical ways to make lasting change in your classroom, this is the handbook for you! Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom contains numerous ideas that can be used by the individual teacher, team, or school to address the underlying issues of challenging behavior. This book includes self-assessment checklists and ready-to-go strategies every educator needs in the classroom. If you are struggling to teach due to behavior issues, reclaim your time now with this must-have classroom guidebook!"
Avis Canty-Duck, Instructional Technology Facilitator"If you are looking for practical ways to make lasting change in your classroom, this is the handbook for you! Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom contains numerous ideas that can be used by the individual teacher, team, or school to address the underlying issues of challenging behavior. This book includes self-assessment checklists and ready-to-go strategies every educator needs in the classroom. If you are struggling to teach due to behavior issues, reclaim your time now with this must-have classroom guidebook!"
Greenville County School District, SC
"Where theory meets practical application, this is the book we’ve been waiting for! Relationships, relationships, relationships….we know they are critical for success in the classroom; however, this book goes a step further and shows us how. Educators of all levels will find useful information to make their classroom lives more successful. We need it, and our kids deserve it."Cindy Corlett, Principal
Littleton Public Schools, CO
"Reclaim Your Classroom is a must-read for any educator hoping to reach all students. The scaffolding provided by the authors will help transform any classroom into a positive learning environment!"Melissa Miller, 6th Grade Science and Math Teacher
Farmington Middle School, AR
"As a 22-year old elementary school teacher, I learned a lot about myself and my behavior management style while reading this book. Beginning the school year often feels rushed with the district-adopted curriculum. However, while reading and reflecting on the questions in Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom, I discovered that the key to having the smooth-running, academically-engaged classroom I want begins with having a well-thought-out behavior plan. There are so many takeaways from this book: I found myself writing down and bookmarking everything I want to try in the next school year with my students."Renee Ponce-Nealon, Elementary School Teacher
Petaluma City Schools, CA
"If an educational professional wants to analyze and improve their classroom environment this book provides the theory behind actions to take and how to take those actions to effect change."
Betty Rivinus"If an educational professional wants to analyze and improve their classroom environment this book provides the theory behind actions to take and how to take those actions to effect change."
Special Education - TOSA, Canby School District, OR
"Reclaiming Your Classroom: Relationship-Based Classroom Management is a must-read for any educator hoping to reach all students. The scaffolding provided by the authors will help transform any classroom into a positive learning environment!"Melissa Miller
Sixth Grade Science/Math Teacher, Farmington Middle School, AR
"In light of students all over the country experiencing interrupted formal instruction in a classroom setting as well as white supremacy and racism coming to the forefront of conversations, there is a need for teachers to rethink how we are re-entering our classrooms in instruction and classroom management.
This connection is not explicitly named, nor the premise of the book, but the need to reclaim and update systems in classrooms is absolutely relevant for all teachers but especially new teachers.
I feel that this book scratches the surface on relationship building, resetting and classroom management and could be used as a starting place before diving deeper."
Macquin Brockington"In light of students all over the country experiencing interrupted formal instruction in a classroom setting as well as white supremacy and racism coming to the forefront of conversations, there is a need for teachers to rethink how we are re-entering our classrooms in instruction and classroom management.
This connection is not explicitly named, nor the premise of the book, but the need to reclaim and update systems in classrooms is absolutely relevant for all teachers but especially new teachers.
I feel that this book scratches the surface on relationship building, resetting and classroom management and could be used as a starting place before diving deeper."
English as a Second Language Teacher (K-5), Boston Public Schools, MA
"If you are looking for practical ways to make lasting change in your classroom, this is the handbook for you! Reclaiming Your Classroom has practical ideas that can be used for the individual teacher, team or school to address underlying issues of behavior that need to be addressed. This book has self assessment checklists and ready to go strategies the conscious educator needs in the classroom. If you are struggling to teach due to behavior issues, reclaim your time now with this must have classroom tool!"
Avis Canty-Duck"If you are looking for practical ways to make lasting change in your classroom, this is the handbook for you! Reclaiming Your Classroom has practical ideas that can be used for the individual teacher, team or school to address underlying issues of behavior that need to be addressed. This book has self assessment checklists and ready to go strategies the conscious educator needs in the classroom. If you are struggling to teach due to behavior issues, reclaim your time now with this must have classroom tool!"
Instructional Technology Facilitator, Greenville County School District, SC
"Where theory meets practical application, this is the book we’ve been waiting for! Relationships, relationships, relationships….we know it is critical for success in the classroom, however, this goes a step further and shows us how. Educators of all levels will find useful information to make their classroom lives more successful. We need it and our kids deserve it."Cindy Corlett
Principal/Educator , Littleton Public Schools, CO
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Related Resources
- Access to companion resources is available with the purchase of this book.
- Students' Perceptions of You as Their Teacher [Lessons and Strategies]