By connecting with their students, teachers can create personal and safe environments that convey a sense of purpose and worth, and engage students in learning. Classroom Management focuses on what teachers can do to create quality-learning environments with their students, demonstrating effective instructional strategies that engage students in learning as well having the skills to respond positively to misbehaviour and de-escalate conflict. Using a healthy measure of theory and plenty of practical advice, this text helps teacher education students develop their own management plan and skills to cater for individual students’ needs.

• Practical skills in working with student misbehaviour and includes working successfully with challenging behaviours.
• Practical framework to develop a personal management plan integrated with  current evidence based approaches to classroom management
• Case studies of real life situations – examples of both good and bad. approaches and why. Examples come from student teachers and current teachers experiences.
• Covers early childhood, primary and secondary.
• Includes Learning outcomes, critical reflection activities, and a practice activity per chapter to assist in practical skill development.

Supplements:

Online materials for teaching and learning including an Instructor's Resource Manual which will include tutorial activities.

1. Developing a Positive Learning Framework
The three phases of the Positive Learning Framework
Meeting student needs
Why use a Positive Learning Framework?
The need for classroom management and instructional knowledge in teacher education
Defining classroom management in the Positive Learning Framework
Assumptions and beliefs in this text


2. Connecting with Students

Quality classrooms where students 'belong'
The need for connections
Making our classrooms welcoming
How teachers connect with students
Problems of disconnection


3. Frameworks to View Student Behaviour

Introduction
Teachers need theory
An integrated approach to view student behaviour
An ecological understanding of student behaviour
Universal needs in the classroom
Why students behave as they do—developing your own answer
Changing vantage points from which to view student behaviour
A major shift from intervention to prevention
Education frameworks to view student behaviour
Models of classroom management


4. Proactive Teacher Behaviours

Planning for Quality Learning Environments
What is engagement?
Before the year starts
Establishing class guidelines
Reframing discipline—punishment, consequences or solutions?
Restorative practice in schools
High expectations and student motivation
Classroom routines and procedures


5. Developing Safe and Accountable Classrooms

Teaching in a quality learning environment
Do not waste students' time!
Safe and accountable classrooms
Selecting teaching strategies
Questioning for engagement
Cooperative learning strategies and tactics
Helping students develop as responsible learners
Working with parents


6. Re-engaging the Disengaged Learner

Introduction
Common classroom behaviours
Punishment and zero tolerance
Whole-school approaches to learning and student behaviour
Coping with defiance
Our needs as teachers and the urge to fix problems
Strategies for de-escalating conflict in the classroom


7. The Effective Teacher's Learning Journey

A Positive Learning Framework approach
Your personal management plan
Prevention
Responding to student misbehaviour


Bibliography

Tim McDonald – Associate Professor, School of Education, Edith Cowan University

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An Instructor’s Resource Manual
Image gallery of all tables and figures from book
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