Secondary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice - Softcover

Weinstein, Carol Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072322705 ISBN 13: 9780072322705

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2002

Synopsis

"Secondary Classroom Management" presents an introduction to classroom management in secondary schools. Written in a lively, engaging, conversational style, it combines what research has to say about effective classroom management with knowledge culled from practice. This text focuses on real decisions made by real teachers as they manage the complex environment of the secondary classroom. This text integrates the thinking and the actual management practices of five real secondary school teachers into discussions of research-based management principles. Readers come to "know" these teachers. We hear about the classes they teach and about the physical constraints of their rooms. We hear them reflect on their rules and routines and watch as they teach these rules and routines to students. We listen as they talk about motivating students and building community, and as they discuss appropriate ways to deal with misbehavior. "Secondary Classroom Management" is well-organized and more comprehensive than many classroom management texts, with chapters on: building safer, more caring classrooms; working with families; using time effectively; motivation; helping students with special needs; and violence prevention. It also addresses the managerial challenges involved in a variety of instructional formats, such as recitations, discussions, and group work.

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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 is currently 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. She has also co-authored (with Andrew J. Mignano)a companion volume on managing elementary 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072322705
• ISBN 13: 9780072322705
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416