Temperament-Based Elementary Classroom Management - Softcover

McClowry, Sandee Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475809433 ISBN 13: 9781475809435

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

Synopsis

This book presents an alternative to the “one size fits all” classroom approach. The majority of classroom management books present generic strategies as if they are applicable to all students. The underlying assertion of such books is that if teachers use such approaches, student behavior problems will seldom occur. An alternative framework, presented in this book, asserts that teachers need to incorporate knowledge about temperament into their strategies for classroom management. As studies have demonstrated, targeted temperament-based strategies succeed where global disciplinary practices have failed. Because students differ in their temperaments, variations in classroom behavior are to be expected. Child temperament is the inborn individual characteristics that affect the way children react to different situations. It is also a social processing system through which children view and interact with the world, both altering the responses of others and contributing toward their own development. Once teachers learn the major tenets of temperament, they no longer view their students as intentionally misbehaving. Instead they understand how the temperaments of their students influence their classroom behavior. Such insights release teachers from engaging in futile battles with their students. They can redirect their energies into enhancing their relationships with their students, implementing effective temperament-based strategies, and, as a result, spend more time on instructional activities.

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About the Author

Sandee McClowry is a Professor of Counseling and Teaching & Learning in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Dr. McClowry has conducted research in the New York City public schools for more than 20 years. She is the developer of the comprehensive evidenced-based school intervention for teachers, students and their parents called INSIGHTS into Children’s Temperament. Dr. McClowry has received over $8 million in funding from the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Institutes of Health to test the efficacy of INSIGHTS. She is the Past-President of the Classroom Management Special Interest Group of the American Education Research Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475809433
• ISBN 13: 9781475809435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154