About the Book
"The reader comes away with strategies for implementation and the confidence to create win-win classrooms and support students in self-management."
-Jo Ann Freiberg, Educational Consultant
"Includes more examples than any other book of its kind I've ever read."
-Stephen Haslam, Educational Consultant
"The focus throughout this book is on effective classroom strategies for setting up a win-win environment where everyone's needs are met and there are fewer power struggles to disrupt instruction"
-Wendy Marshal, Director, Educational Technology Training Center
Armstrong Atlantic State University
At the start of your career or at the end of your rope...
When it comes to student behavior challenges in the classroom, conventional practices and punitive discipline codes often fail to motivate students to change their attitudes or behavior. Recognized for defining a nontraditional approach that really works, Jane Bluestein offers educators ways to prevent discipline problems, build student accountability, and end frustrating power struggles with kids of all ages.
This authoritative, research-based guidebook discusses the impact of stress, brain functioning, learning styles, and social and emotional issues on student behavior. You'll find examples, guidelines, charts, and anecdotes, along with practical, powerful, and effective ideas to help you:
Avoid falling into the "rules and punishment" trap
Establish win-win authority relationships while defusing conflict and opposition
Build a positive, caring, and emotionally safe learning climate
Encourage student cooperation, motivation, self-management, and on-task behavior
Engage even the most defiant, defeated, or resistant learner by using powerful alternative strategies
The Win-Win Classroom will change the way you interact with students and help you build a positive social culture within your school and classroom.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The System, Your Students, and You
1. Drawing the Line
2. Starting Where You Are
3. Clarifying What You Want
Part II. The Challenges
4. Behavior and the Brain
5. Tripping Over the System
6. Catching Up to the Twenty-First Century
7. Keeping the Big Picture in Mind
Part III. Restructuring Power Dynamics
8. Connecting With Kids
9. Who′s Got the Power?
10. Win-Win Authority Relationships
Part IV. Establishing Authority in a Win-Win Classroom
11. Mastering Motivation
12. The Power of Choice
13. The Beauty of Boundaries
14. Following Through
15. Responding Nonreactively
Part V. Success Orientation
16. Managing a Win-Win Classroom
17. Planning for Success
18. Learning Styles and Preferences
Part VI. Increasing Positivity
19. Changing Your Focus
20. Creating Congruence
21. Keeping the Good Stuff Going
22. Supporting Emotional and Social Development
23. Building Problem-Solving Skills
Part VII. Working the System
24. Backup and Support
25. Secrets of Successful Self-Care
Epilogue
Resource A. Win-Win Ideas for Administrators
Resource B. Magic Sentences
Resource C. Characteristics of Healthy Relationships
Recommended Reading
Index
About the Author :
A dynamic and entertaining speaker, Jane Bluestein has worked with thousands of educators, counselors, health care professionals, parents, child care workers, and other community members worldwide. She has appeared internationally as a speaker and talk-show guest, including several appearances as a guest expert on CNN, National Public Radio, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Bluestein specializes in programs and resources geared to provide practical and meaningful information, training, and hope in areas related to relationship building, effective instruction and guidance, and personal development. Much of her work focuses on interactions between adults and children, especially children at risk. Her down-to-earth speaking style, practicality, sense of humor, and numerous stories and examples make her ideas clear and accessible to her audiences.
Bluestein is an award-winning author whose books include Creating Emotionally Safe Schools; High School’s Not Forever; 21st Century Discipline; Being a Successful Teacher; Parents in a Pressure Cooker; Parents, Teens, & Boundaries; The Parent’s Little Book of Lists: Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Parenting; Mentors, Masters, and Mrs. McGregor: Stories of Teachers Making a Difference; and Daily Riches: A Journal of Gratitude and Awareness. Bluestein’s latest book is entitled The Win-Win Classroom.
Formerly a classroom teacher in inner-city Pittsburgh, PA, a crisis-intervention counselor, a teacher training program coordinator, and a volunteer with high-risk teens at a local day treatment program, Bluestein currently heads Instructional Support Services, Inc., a consulting and resource firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Review :
"The focus throughout this book is on effective classroom strategies for setting up a win-win environment where everyone’s needs are met and there are fewer power struggles to disrupt instruction."
"I have always been a ′wanna-be′ win-win teacher, but did not have all the tools I needed to become one. I only knew what I did not want to be. The suggestions in this book have benefited both my students and me, and I am very grateful for that."
"The suggestions for motivating cooperative behavior are excellent! The list of choices to offer students and guidelines for offering choices are so useful."
“The reader comes away with strategies for implementation and the confidence to create win-win classrooms and support students in self-management.”
“A clearly stated guide that teachers can use to unlock the learning process for students while maintaining their joy of teaching.”
“Chapters teach how to recognize and support emotional and social development in students, going beyond the usual educational primer to apply tested teaching techniques.”
