Solving Discipline and Classroom Management Problems: Methods and Models for Today′s Teachers - Softcover

Wolfgang, Charles H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047165387X ISBN 13: 9780471653875

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Synopsis

Build your own approach for solving discipline problems

Offering a wide range of methods and practical advice, this sixth edition equips teachers with tools they need to deal effectively with a range of discipline/management problems in the classroom––from minor misbehavior to serious assaults.

Features

• A new chapter discusses how to deal with and support parents
• Proactive models and techniques for preventing problems, as well as new models of Love and Logic, Discipline with Dignity, and Linda Albert’s Cooperative Discipline
• Current practices for dealing with assaultive and potentially violent students
• A step–by–step process helps you build your own discipline/classroom management system
• Examples show how to implement each model in specific situations
• A Beliefs About Discipline inventory enables you to determine which discipline models best fit your own personality

About this title

Offering a wide range of methods and practical advice, this Sixth Edition of Wolfgang’s Solving Discipline and Classroom Management Problems once again equips teachers with tools they need to deal effectively with a range of discipline/management problems in the classroom––from minor misbehavior to serious assaults. Coverage spans reactive approaches within the Rules–Consequences, Confronting–Contracting, and Relationship Listening models, as well as proactive models related to Peer Mediation, the Judicious/Ethical model, and Direct Teaching of Social Skills to Students.

Features

• A new chapter discusses how to deal with and support parents.
• Includes proactive models and techniques for preventing problems, as well as new models of Love and Logic, Discipline with Dignity, and Linda Albert’s Cooperative Discipline.
• Examines current practices for dealing with assaultive and potentially violent students.
• Clear, unbiased explanations of each model include strengths and weaknesses.
• A step–by–step process helps you build your own discipline/classroom management system.
• Examples show how to implement each model in specific situations.
• A Beliefs About Discipline inventory enables you to determine which discipline models best fit your own personality.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047165387X
• ISBN 13: 9780471653875
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 352