Successful Classroom Management and Discipline: Teaching Self-Control and Responsibility / Edition 3

by Tom V. Savage, Marsha K. Savage

Overview

Focusing on how educators can facilitate the development of self-control and responsibility in students, Successful Classroom Management and Discipline offers comprehensive yet concise coverage of the preventative aspects of classroom management, as well as a wide range of effective intervention strategies. In this Third Edition, authors Tom Savage and Martha K. Savage offer new and updated coverage of teacher stress, legal dimensions of management and discipline, teacher/family collaboration, and bullying.

Key Features

• Features a two-part structure to pinpoint the key dimensions of classroom management: how to prevent classroom issues and how to respond to problems that arise
• Identifies a measurable goal for K–12 teachers: helping students to develop self-control and responsibility
• Addresses "teacher burnout" through practical application of stress management
• Describes bullying behaviors and teacher response, including a section on working with parents, a vital skill for avoiding and resolving serious problems
• Presents realistic case studies and "What Would You Do?" scenarios to demonstrate chapter concepts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412966788
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/13/2009
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	439,788
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

1. Managing the Contemporary Classroom
2. Learning to be an Effective Classroom Manager
3. Classroom Behavior and Motivation: The Essential Link
4. Managing the Learning Environment
5. Managing Instruction
6. When Misbehavior Occurs
7. When Problems are Minor
8. Responding to Persistent Misbehavior
9. Violence and Serious Misbehavior
10. Bullies and Bullying
11. Conflict Resolution
12. Legal Dimensions of Classroom Management and Discipline