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Best Classroom Management Practices for Reaching All Learners

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

By: Randi Stone

Invite expert educators into your classroom and watch your classroom management experience multiply!

This inspiring collection of advice from award-winning teachers brings the best of classroom management practice to your classroom by compiling strategies, suggestions, tactics, and even plans for improving classroom management approaches. By peeking into the best-run classrooms through the eyes of our best teachers, Stone brings us solutions to the questions and issues that concern teachers every day, including:

Building classroom community, working with challenging students, and communicating with parents
Rules, rewards, discipline, silence, and shared responsibilities
Homework, posters, newsletters, and round robin reading groups
Computer labs, classroom technology, grantwriting, and more

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412909709
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2005
Page Count: 168
Publication date: April 12, 2005

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Description

Invite expert educators into your classroom and watch your classroom management experience expand!

Do you enjoy swapping ideas with other teachers? Do you find that the teachers' lounge is the best place to learn? Do you wish you had time to attend classroom management seminars? The exchange of ideas often allows educators to fine-tune strategies for managing their classrooms by listening to others who have successfully overcome similar challenges. This inspiring collection of advice from award-winning teachers now brings the best of classroom management practice to your classroom.

Best Classroom Management Practices for Reaching All Learners compiles strategies, suggestions, tactics, and even plans for improving classroom management approaches. By peeking into the best-run classrooms through the eyes of our best teachers, Stone brings us solutions to the questions and issues that concern teachers every day.

Contributors focus on promoting a positive teaching environment and enriching learning experiences in today's diverse classrooms by covering such topics as:

Building classroom community, working with challenging students, and communicating with parents
Rules, rewards, discipline, silence, and shared responsibilities
Homework, posters, newsletters, and round robin reading groups
Computer labs, classroom technology, grantwriting, and more

Invite Randi Stone and her 29 expert educators into your classroom and find a virtual teachers' lounge at your fingertips!

Key features

Award-winning classroom teachers share their best practices with new and veteran teachers
29 easy-to-browse classroom management strategies
Filled with planners, checklists, tips, sample schedules, and more.

Author(s)

Randi Stone

Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

About the Contributors

1. The Buck Reward System

2. Managing With Silence and More

3. Beginning the Journey With the Challenging Students

4. Using a Student Information Notebook

5. Organizing Homework Collection

6. The Harmonious Classroom

7. Using Newsletters to Communicate With Families

8. Building a Community of Learners

9. Corresponding With Parents

10. Classroom Posters: "Welcome to My Ball Park" and "The Scoring Guide to Whining"

11. Classroom Management and Finding Success in Your AP Spanish Program

12. One Teacher's Journey to the Classroom of the Future

13. Learning Through Love

14. Rules! Rules! Rules!

15. Making Connections: Effective Telephone Communications

16. Relationships and Classroom Management

17. Turning Your Classroom Into a Purposeful Roller-Coaster Ride!

18. Classroom Discipline

19. Acquiring and Utilizing Technology Devices in the Elementary Classroom

20. Round-Robin Learning Groups: A Classroom Management Alternative

21. Computer Lab Policies and Procedures

22. Overinvolved Parents

23. Grantwriting Tips to Accommodate Learners' Needs

24. A Shared Responsibility

25. My Weekly Newsletter

26. Success Is Just a Click Away!

27. Ideas to Help Students Thrive in a Stimulating and Successful Learning Environment

28. Strategies Over the Years

29. A Community of Learners

Index

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