• 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     A Positive Learning Framework for Classroom Management

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

Index