Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems: A Classroom Management Handbook

ORDER 10 OR MORE OF ANY ITEM AND RECEIVE A 20% DISCOUNT! Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems is a handbook, with its own self-improvement exercises, for all the skills needed to implement successful classroom management and eliminate discipline problems. This book, based on the author's extensive work with New York City school teachers, helps teachers to design instructional strategies to prevent, not just handle, disruptive classroom behavior. Seeman discusses more than 100 of these problems, from responding to talking in class to preventing violence from erupting in your school. This is the only text that is both a comprehensive training handbook and academic course text. The third edition includes new sections in each chapter for grades K-6, parents, strategies for school violence prevention, a computer resource guide, conflict-resolution training, systematic rewards for all grades, and methods for handling peer pressure and bullies. It also contains a collection of supplemental online training tools. Visit Classroom Management Onlinefor more information.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Understanding the Problem and the Proper Approach Chapter 2 Using This Book as a Handbook Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Why Many Attempts Have Been Inadequate Chapter 9 A Summary and Critique of the Literature Chapter 10 You're Not Alone Chapter 11 When Should You Call It: "A Discipline Problem"? Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Part 14 Prevention: Locating the Sources of Disruptive Behavior Chapter 15 From Outside Your Classroom Chapter 16 From the Environment of Your Classroom Chapter 17 From the Interactions between You and Your Students Chapter 18 From the Delivery of Your Lesson Plan Part 19 Preventing/Handling the Sources of Disruptive Behavior Chapter 20 Dealing with Those That Are Somewhat Out of Your Hands Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Repairing Your Student-Teacher Interactions Chapter 26 Preventing Your Rules from Falling Apart, and Saving Kids Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Conflict Resolution Training Chapter 33 Strengthening Students To Be Less Vulnerable to Peer Pressure Chapter 34 Working on Asserting Yourself and Taking Stands Chapter 35 SPECIFICS: Handling: the "See me after class!"; Calling out; Fighting; Cheating; Late-comers; Wearing hats; Personal Stereos; Drug dealers; Weapons, etc. Chapter 36 Repairing the Delivery of Your Lesson Plan (89 Methods) Chapter 37 Helping the Substitute Teacher Chapter 38 A Questionnaire for Your Staff to Help Prevention Chapter 39 Legal Parameters to Guide Administrators Chapter 40 Checklist for Student Teachers, and Your First Day! Chapter 41 A Resource Bibliography

About the Author :
Howard Seeman, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York. He has supervised student teachers and taught classroom management since 1970. He has published over 20 articles in professional and online journals, conducted over 40 training workshops on classroom management throughout the U.S., and has been a keynote speaker at many national education conferences. Prof. Seeman has been a consultant to school administrators/teachers nationally and internationally since 1975. He was also a licensed Social Studies and English teacher in the N.Y.C. public schools for 6 years, and co-directed a camp for emotionally disturbed children.

Review :
This is a book/video all about classroom management, probably the most discussed topic of teachers in staffrooms around the globe. Seeman has put together a handbook on classroom management that has a wealth of ideas....The book promotes prevention as thebest alternative in most classroom management situations and it is written in such a manner that it can easily be picked up and used as either a training manual or an ongoing guide. Highly recommended. An excellent book. There is also a video which accompanies the book in which the author uses visual examples of the ideas contained within the text. The video is also set up in such a way as to be used as a training tool, with each example linked to a specific section of the book... Seeman's book [with a training video] offers the kind of common-sense approach to the classroom that beleaguered teachers are looking for. Even better, the just-in-time techniques are geared toward preventing discipline problems rather than reacting to them. The information is so well organized and so complete that it's easy to find exactly what you're looking for. This video and the book are powerful change agents...enable teachers to feel less alone and more empowered to prevent and constructively respond to discipline problems...rich, far-reaching and practical. Excellent examples of troublesome situations, skillfully demonstrated...provides very practical discussion and learning for very real classroom problems. Essential truths, invaluable for new or experienced teachers; priceless keys to rewarding teaching, beautifully demonstrated!...a guide to successful discipline-free teaching, no matter what your style. This is a book/video all about classroom management, probably the most discussed topic of teachers in staffrooms around the globe. Seeman has put together a handbook on classroom management that has a wealth of ideas....The book promotes prevention as the best alternative in most classroom management situations and it is written in such a manner that it can easily be picked up and used as either a training manual or an ongoing guide. Highly recommended. An excellent book. There is also a video which accompanies the book in which the author uses visual examples of the ideas contained within the text. The video is also set up in such a way as to be used as a training tool, with each example linked to a specific section of the book. Seeman has created a text that can be used as a self-help guide or training manual for preventing and solving discipline problems. A comprehensive treatment of classroom discipline. This book is not about controlling children, but rather about humanistic education with ample regard for practical solutions to disruptive behavior. Well received! Both the book and the video are recommended to all schools in Saskatchewan, Canada that need help with emotional and behavioral disorders. Also recommended to the College of Education, University of Regina, Canada. All the suggestions in this book are skillfully presented and can easily be executed. I thoroughly recommend this book to every teacher. In reading and practicing what Seeman is telling us to do, we will reduce the number of discipline problems in schools. I have used [this book] for several years re: class management. I especially appreciate the sections like: discriminating a behavior problem from another type of problem. [This book] has been very useful to me and to the teachers with whom I work. Thanks for your contribution to the profession. It has been important to me and the work I do. WOW! I am so excited that, after taking Dr. Seeman's online class, I now have a 'cookbook' that I can use to assist teachers in the classroom. In my job as a middle school counselor, I assist teachers in managing the behavior problems in their classrooms. This course has provided me with the information that I can use with teachers to help them view their classroom from both their and the student's perspective. I now use at least one technique from Dr. Seeman's book daily. It is so enlightening for teachers to know that there is a systematic way to handle problems in their classrooms to get the results that they want. I have truly seen the light bulb go on when teachers are able to identify what they can do to improve instruction, handle issues in their classrooms, and create the environment they want for their students by using this book, its training exercises and Video. Thank you, Dr. Seeman for such a wonderful and practical contribution to teacher training and to education