From Lesson Plans to Power Struggles, Grades 6-12: Classroom Management Strategies for New Teachers / Edition 1

by June Trop Zuckerman

Overview

Straight talk about classroom management from new teachers who have developed solutions!

Offering authentic stories from novice secondary school teachers in urban, suburban, and rural districts with diverse students, this practical guide illustrates how new teachers can benefit from the experiences of their peers to resolve common classroom challenges. The author provides instructional and disciplinary cases, plus an expert analysis of each teacher’s successful strategies. The book includes:

• A table of contents with specific instructional/discipline topics for easy reference
• Ways to identify when problems are related to lesson delivery or discipline
• A glossary of terms and a resource list for detailed information

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412968782
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/03/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

June Trop Zuckerman has had over 40 years of experience as an award-winning teacher and educator, approximately half of those years as a middle and high school science teacher and half as a professor of secondary education. Over the years, she has conducted countless classes and seminars for and about novice teachers and coached scores of them in their own classroom to improve their management skills.

With an Ed D in science education from Teachers College, Zuckerman has focused her recent research on the mentoring of novice teachers, their classroom management strategies, and the practical knowledge they construct and communicate through storytelling. Her papers on these topics have appeared regularly in the Journal of Science Teacher Education, Science Educator, and American Secondary Education.

Now associate professor emerita at the State University of New York at New Paltz, she uses her extensive theoretical and practical knowledge of pedagogy to speak to and coach teachers at colleges and secondary schools in the region.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jean Lythcott, Phd
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I. Lesson Execution Problems
1. The Advantage of a Well-Planned, Activity-Based Lesson
2. When Your Lesson Plan Is Inadequate
3. When Your Lesson Is Boring
4. When Your Directions Generate Frustration
5. When the Activities You've Planned Don't Fill the Allotted Time
6. Getting the Class Settled for the Start of the Lesson
7. When You Have a Persistently Noisy Class
8. When Your Normally Attentive Class Is Noisy
9. When the Class Misuses Instructional Materials
10. When Students Don't Do Their Homework
11. When There's a Threat to Student Safety
12. When There's a Mishap
13. When a Tragic Event Affects the School Community
Part II. Discipline Problems
14. When a Good Student Violates a Minor Rule
15. When You Have a Class Clown
16. When Students Are Your Buddies
17. When You Have a Student Who Talks a Lot
18. When a Group Misbehaves (Or Is Likely to Misbehave)
19. When a Student Is Outspoken
20. When a Student Does Little or No Schoolwork
21. When a Student Seems Troubled
22. When Students Bully
23. When Students Cheat
24. When Students Fight
25. When You Find Yourself in a Power Struggle
26. When Your Student Has a Tantrum
27. When a Student Persistently Seeks Attention
28. When a Student Provokes the Class's Animosity
29. When an Administrative Intervention Is Necessary
Conclusion: Becoming an Effective Classroom Manager
References
Glossary and Index of Technical Terms
Alphabetical Index of Practical Principles
Topical Index of Practical Principles
Index of Supplementary Concepts
General Index

Editorial Reviews

"Prepares the novice teacher for success in classroom management with a guide that exposes the real nature of disruptive events, along with clearly stated solutions. "

William D. Schraer

How I wish I had this book when I began my teaching career 45 years ago! I found in each story another ‘aha’ of recognition. While the author claims the book to be simply a practical, concise classroom management guide for novice teachers, she delivers so much more, providing the grist to enhance her readers’ confidence as well as their competence and preparing them for interpersonal challenges well beyond the classroom. Helping novice teachers triumph over their insecurities and fears, Zuckerman provides the windows for them to understand themselves so they can better nurture their students. In effect, her book inducts all teachers, whether novice or experienced, into the art of teaching, pointing the way for them to bestow upon their students the priceless gift of a love of learning.

Bonnie M. Kaye

Provides practical, helpful information for novice teachers. Emphasizes the importance of activity-based lesson plans that influence effective classroom discipline.

Nicholas J. Steenstra

As a novice teacher craving more and more knowledge about the elaborate and multifaceted world of teaching, I couldn’t wait to delve into the stories and techniques Zuckerman highlighted from other novice teachers. I found comfort in the fact that many of my teaching experiences were the same as other novice teachers. Zuckerman’s ability to provide exceptional techniques from lesson planning to discipline issues and overall effective classroom management strategies is by far the most useful information any novice teacher could ask for.

Lecia Zulak

A much-needed how-to guide for beginning teachers. This book gives beginning teachers a heads up on the real-life management issues that envelope the art and science of effective instruction.

Elisabeth Hess Rice

“An excellent resource for beginning and veteran secondary teachers, offering strategies that work to meet the challenges they encounter daily. I am recommending this book to my staff for reflection on how they address difficult situations and implement positive change.”

Joseph J. Mazzetti