Effective Classroom Management: Six Keys to Success

For many years educational experts have extolled the benefits of a positive student-teacher relationship. Personal connections between teachers and students can be the key motivator in student interest and achievement in school. Yet teachers have little knowledge about how to establish the relationships that can instill in their students a desire to learn and an incentive to minimize negative behaviors in the classroom. This book holds the keys to forming those relationships that teachers need to motivate and successfully communicate with every student. The six keys identified to successful classroom management based on the concepts of the Process Communication Model® are: 1.Know Yourself 2.Know Your Students 3.Examine Current Strategies 4.Motivate by Type 5.Develop Intervention Strategies 6.Create a Multifaceted Environment The authors offer teachers unique and easy-to-implement strategies for managing their classrooms and their students. This book helps teachers maximize student potential through knowing their personality types and designing management strategies and instruction that correspond to each type. Effective Classroom Management contains true success stories from real teachers who have experienced barriers in reaching difficult students. Chapters are also provided on individualizing for success, dealing with acute negative behaviors, and preparing students for standards and assessments.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The Six Keys Chapter 3 The Perfect Plan, Key 1: Know Yourself Chapter 4 The Students Arrive, Key 2: Know Your Students Chapter 5 Traditional Behavior Management Models, Key 3: Examine Current Strategies Chapter 6 Motivating Students of All Types, Key 4: Motivate by Type Chapter 7 Proactive Strategies for Reducing Problem Behavior, Key 5: Develop Intervention Strategies Chapter 8 Thinking outside the Box, Key 6: Create a Multifaceted Environment Part 9 Changing Negatives into Positives Chapter 10 Differentiating for Success Chapter 11 Dealing with Acute Negative Behaviors Chapter 12 Preparing All Students for Standards and Assessments

About the Author :
Dianne F. Bradley is director of the Creative Initiatives in Teacher Education (CITE) program at the University of Maryland and a trained facilitator in Process Communication ®. Judith Ann Pauley is an adjunct professor at California State University San Marcos. She has more than 40 years experience teaching chemistry and physics and has been named Teacher of the Year three times. Joseph F. Pauley is an adjunct professor at several universities. He has taught at all levels from elementary school through graduate school and has been helping educators reach and teach every student for more than 18 years.