Ruth
Charney gives teachers help on things that really matter. She wants
children to learn how to care for themselves, their fellow students, their
environment, and their work. Her book is loaded with practical wisdom.
Using Charney's positive approach to classroom management will make the
whole school day go better.
—Nel Noddings, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, and author of Caring
This definitive work about classroom
management will show teachers how to turn their vision of respectful,
friendly, academically rigorous classrooms into reality. The revised edition includes:
- Setting priorities and expectations with children
- Establishing classroom routines
- Generating rules with students and using logical consequences
- Working with families and staff to support the rules
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Planning and conducting social conferences and class meetings
- Avoiding power struggles
- Choosing effective teacher language and tone
- Helping children with challenging behavior problems
Table of Contents
Preface and Forward
Section I: Building a Learning Community
Chapter 1: Intentions
Chapter 2: I See You, I See Everything
Chapter 3: Making the Rules with Children
Chapter 4: Teaching the Rules
Chapter 5: A Student's Individual Goals
Section II: Making the Community Work
Chapter 6: Using Logical Consequences
Chapter 7: Time-Out
Chapter 8: The Five Percent
Chapter 9: Working Together to Support the Rules
Section III: The Voices of Teaching
Chapter 10: Empowering Language
Chapter 11: Stress the Deed, Not the Doer
Chapter 12: The Voices of Authority
Section IV: Further Strategies for Difficult Classroom Behaviors
Chapter 13: Problem-Solving Class Meetings
Chapter 14: Using Social Conferences
Chapter 15: Individual Contracts
Section V: Clear Positives
Chapter 16: Teaching by Clear Positives
Chapter 17: Clear Positives in Action
Conclusion: Authentic Teaching
Appendix A: Horse
Appendix B: A Conflict Resolution Protocol for Elementary Classrooms
Appendix C: Apology of Action: Teaching Children to Make Amends
Appendix D: Steps to Self-Control
Appendix E: Common Behavior Challenges by Age
Acknowledgements
Index
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