Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management

by Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey

Overview

ASCD Bestseller! Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching.

In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together. After a comprehensive overview of the roots of the restorative practices movement in schools, the authors explain how to

• Establish procedures and expectations for student behavior that encourage the development of positive interpersonal skills;
• Develop a nonconfrontational rapport with even the most challenging students; and
• Implement conflict resolution strategies that prioritize relationship building and mutual understanding over finger-pointing and retribution.

Rewards and punishments may help to maintain order in the short term, but they're at best superficially effective and at worst counterproductive. This book will prepare teachers at all levels to ensure that their classrooms are welcoming, enriching, and constructive environments built on collective respect and focused on student achievement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416620624
Publisher:	ASCD
Publication date:	08/17/2015
Pages:	170
Sales rank:	34,780
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Punitive or Restorative: The Choice Is Yours

Chapter 2: Relationships and Meaningful Instruction: The Foundations of Restorative Practices

Chapter 3: Classroom Procedures and Expectations: Structures that Support Restorative Practices

Chapter 4: Peace Building: Using Informal Restorative Practices Every Day

Chapter 5: Peacemaking: Strategic Implementation of Formal Restorative Practices

Chapter 6: Creating the Mindset for Restorative Practices

References

Index

About the Authors