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What Every Teacher Should Know About Classroom Management and Discipline

By: Donna E. Walker Tileston

The powerfully effective method for facilitating positive behavior in the classroom!

Brain research and good planning can be combined to prevent and/or minimize discipline problems and off-task behavior in the classroom. Chapters cover:

Moving from old-fashioned obedience models to effective student self-management skills
Working with on-task and off-task behaviors: motivation, stress, flow, timing, environment, resources, and more
Dealing with difficult students and difficult issues, including power, revenge, anger, and poverty
Planning that facilitates positive behavior
Using cooperative learning skills
Teaching social skills
Using strategies for the self-system
Focusing on metacognitive skills
A model for classroom management
Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
Bibliography and index

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761931225
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2003
Page Count: 112
Publication date: October 30, 2003

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Moving from old-fashioned obedience models to effective student self-management skills
Working with on-task and off-task behaviors: motivation, stress, flow, timing, environment, resources, and more
Dealing with difficult students and difficult issues, including power, revenge, anger, and poverty
Planning that facilitates positive behavior
Using cooperative learning skills
Teaching social skills
Using strategies for the self-system
Focusing on metacognitive skills
A model for classroom management
Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
Bibliography and index

Author(s)

Donna E. Walker Tileston

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin's bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

Vocabulary Pre-Test Vocabulary Pre-Test Vocabulary Pre-Test Vocabulary Pre-Test

1. Old Fashioned Discipline

2. The Basis for Off-task Behavior

3. Dealing With Difficult Students

4. Planning That Facilitates Positive Behavior

5. Using Cooperative Learning Skills as a Guide

6. A Model for Classroom Management

7. A Model for Classroom Management

Glossary

Vocabulary Post-Test

Bibliography

Index

Other Titles in: Classroom Discipline | Classroom Organization | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles

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