Secondary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice - Softcover

Weinstein, Carol Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070691568 ISBN 13: 9780070691568

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1997

Synopsis

This text is a companion to Wienstein and Mignano's "Elementary Classroom Management". The book is a core text in classroom management courses for secondary majors and can be assigned with the elementary text for courses enrolling both elementary and secondary majors. Like its companion volume, it combines what research has to say about effective classroom management with practical knowledge culled from real teachers at different grade levels and in different subject areas. This is done by integrating into the research discussions case studies of four practising teachers. The research discussions comprise approximately two-thirds of most chapters and the case studies one-third.

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From the Publisher

Case Studies The case studies illustrate how four real teachers from four different grade levels and school settings think about their management tasks. Readers learn about their decisions, and then, through use of discussion questions, have a chance to react to those decisions.

Matches Management to Activities The book recognizes that management demands vary as classrooms shift from one type of activity to another, Consequently, whole chapters are devoted to the management demands of these classroom activities: seatwork, groupwork, and recitations.

Communication Focus Positive communication with students and parents is stressed throughout but especially in chapters 5 and 11.

Multiple Markets In addition to being a core text in classroom management courses, the book's size, price, and its companion volume allow it to be used as part of a customized teaching package in any course in which classroom management is a major topic.

About the Author

Carol S. Weinstein has recently retired from her position as Professor of Education at Rutgers Graduate School of Education, where she was Associate Dean of Teacher Education and Chair of the Department of Learning and Teaching. She received her doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1975. A former public school teacher, she has authored dozens of journal articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the physical design of classrooms to prospective teachers' beliefs about classroom management. Her most recent work has focused on culturally responsive classroom management, and she served as the guest editor for a special issue of Theory Into Practice on Managing Classrooms in a Diverse Society. With Carolyn Evertson, she co-edited the first Handbook of Classroom Management: Research, Practice, and Contemporary Issues (to be published by Erlbaum, 2006). She has also written a companion volume to this text on managing secondary classrooms (McGraw-Hill). In July 2000, she received a Contributing Researcher Award from the American Federation of Teachers for "Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice in Effective Classroom Management." Her special interests are classroom organization and management, violence prevention, and teacher education.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070691568
• ISBN 13: 9780070691568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304