Ultimate Classroom Control Handbook

by Dave Foley (2007, JIST Works, 15.95)
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A veteran teacher's on-the-spot techniques for solving adolescent student misbehavior. Provides specific answers—plus backup plans—to the discipline problems and classroom-management issues that plague teachers. This fix-it manual by an award-winning educator targets student disruptions and teaching inefficiencies that eat up instruction time. It helps solve problems on the spot, so you spend your time educating rather than disciplining. Grades 6-12. [7” x 9.5”...180 pages]

Common-Sense Classroom Management: For Elementary School Teachers, 2nd Edition

by Jill Lindberg, et al. (2006, Corwin Press, 27.95)
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Through humor, drawings, and a conversational tone, this well-organized resource provides specific suggestions on how to get the job done. And done right. An indispensable manual for new teachers, teacher trainers, and mentor teachers, this compact yet comprehensive book is chock-full of easy-to-implement techniques for creating a successful teaching and learning environment in today's diverse elementary classrooms. [8.5” x 11”...100 pages]

Classroom Management for Academic Success

by Lee Canter (2006, Solution Tree, 39.95/spiral)
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Based on extensive research and effective practices, this groundbreaking approach will help teachers go beyond simply trying to control student behavior to quickly and effectively establishing a classroom environment that promotes academic success. [9” x 11”...283 pages]

Positive Teacher Talk for Better Classroom Management: Grades K-2

by Deborah Diffily & Charlotte Sassman (2006, Teaching Strategies, 18.99)
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The way teachers talk to students affects how young children learn and how they feel about themselves as learners and members of the classroom community. This book offers strategies for supporting students through the use of positive language and includes hundreds of model phrases and statements for welcoming children, helping children manage their behavior, giving feedback on work, and more. For use with Grades K-2. [8.5” x 11”...160 pages]

Classroom Management in Photographs: Full-Color Photographs with Teacher Descriptions & Insights About What Realy Works

by Maria Chang (2004, Teaching Strategies, 17.99)
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More than 200 color photos showcase how top teachers arrange their classrooms, organize libraries, set up learning centers, establish routines and more. Grades K-5. [8.5” x 11”...96 pages]

Journey Toward the Caring Classroom: Using Adventure to Create Community in the Classroom & Beyond

by Laurie Frank (2004, Wood 'N Barnes Publishing, 39.95)
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Each journey begins with one step. Simply using these activities in your classroom signals a change in the status quo for teachers and students alike. With experience, the activities become part of a larger process that creates a foundation of safety, security, and trust. This foundation supports the collaboration that propels learning to new heights. [8.5” x 11”...304 pages]

One-Minute Discipline: Classroom Management Strategies That Work

by Arnie Bianco (2002, Jossey-Bass, 29.95)
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For classroom teachers at all levels, here is a unique collection of practical, proven-effective techniques and ready-to-use tools for managing classroom behavior and creating the positive environment that students and teachers need to promote learning. [8.5” x 11”...252 pages]

Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn

by Bob Sornson (2005, Love & Logic Press, 17.95)
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The easy-to-read storytelling style of Dr. Sornson's latest book captures the essence of using Love and Logic to build successful school cultures. [6” x 9”...180 pages]

Creating the Peaceable Classroom: Techniques to Calm, Uplift, and Focus Teachers and Students

by Sandy Bothmer (2003, Zephyr Press, 29.95)
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With this book, teachers will enhance their own well-being and learn better ways to calm, center, focus, uplift, and energize students. Included are real classroom photos, helpful drawings, and step-by-step instructions for creating a healthy, productive classroom. Also, includes centering techniques to use with students, such as conscious breathing, guided imagery, drawing, yoga, spiral and labyrinth exercises, focused and energizing movement, and music. [8” x 10”...160 pages]

The Eleven Commandments of Good Teaching: Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Can Teach & Students Can Learn, Second Edition

by Vicki Gill (2001, Corwin Press, 19.95)
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Offers practical advice on how to achieve a classroom environment that promotes exemplary teaching and learning. Each "commandment" is illustrated with real-life classroom experiences and offers concrete guidance for staying enthusiastic and committed to excellence. [6” x 9”...89 pages]

All the Good Kids Are in My Class

by Lawrence Shapiro (2001, Play-2-Grow, 22.95)
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If you want students to have good behavior in the classroom, why not teach them the skills they need to know? This 14-week curriculum focuses on behaviors like patience, persistence, respecting others, sharing, being friendly, following rules, and more. Each behavioral skill corresponds to one week of teaching, and each day has a different 10-minute activity, including stories, discussions, art ideas, fun games and at-home projects. If you want kids to behave, this is the best way to do it. Paperback. For grades K-4. [8” x 10”...160 pages]

Reluctant Disciplinarian: Advice on Classroom Management from a Softy Who Became (Eventually) a Successful Teacher

by Gary Rubinstein (1999, Cottonwood Press, 12.95)
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In this funny and insightful book, Gary Rubinstein relives his own truly disastrous first year of teaching. He begins his teaching career armed only with idealism and romantic visions of teaching—and absolutely no classroom management skills. By his fourth year, however, he is named his school's "Teacher of the Year." As Rubinstein details his transformation from incompetent to successful teacher, he shows what works and what doesn't work when managing a classroom. [7.5” x 9”...143 pages]

The Power of Positive Teaching: 35 Successful Strategies for Active and Enthusiastic Classroom Participation

by Yvonne Bender (2004, Zephyr Press, 16.95)
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Explained in an easy-to-follow, concise format, each 2-3-page strategy includes a brief introductory scenario illustrating the technique's usefulness in the classroom, steps to implementing the strategy, a discussion of potential problems and suggestions for managing them, and viable ideas for adapting the techniques to fit different teaching situations. Quick-reference teacher-friendly sections include strategies that gain and maintain students' attention, build teamwork, keep students organized, enhance review and reinforcement lessons, and help sustain a positive learning environment. [6” x 9”...112 pages]

Winning Strategies for Classroom Management

by Carol Cummings (2000, ASCD, 21.95)
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How many management books are a pleasure to read? This one is. Its substance concerns what the author calls "effective teaching behavior"—learning how to connect with students, teach them self-management skills, and find the causes of misbehavior. But its style is clear and practical. Sample letters and exercises show you how to put the principles to work; quotable quotes in the margins will keep you turning the pages. [6” x 9”...158 pages]

You Have to Go to School...You're the Teacher: 250 Classroom Management Strategies to Make Your Job Easier & More Fun, Second Edition

by Renee Rosenblum-Lowden (2000, Corwin Press, 27.95)
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Now in its new edition, this book offers preservice, new, and experienced teachers even more. This timeless collection of ideas and strategies will serve as a "mentor-in-a-book" that teachers can refer to and benefit from throughout their careers. [6” x 9”...158 pages]

Why Your Students Do What They Do & What to Do When They Do It…Grades K-5: A Practical Guide for Understanding Classroom Behavior

by Roger Pierangelo & George Giuliani (2001, Research Press, 19.95)
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Each of these manuals addresses over 90 common problems or concerns that teachers observe on a daily basis, such as teasing, bullying, laziness, cheating, fighting, daydreaming, lying, shyness, clowning, procrastination, tattling, irresponsibility, test failure, and lack of friends. [6” x 9”...214 pages]

Why Your Students Do What They Do & What to Do When They Do It…Grades 6-12: A Practical Guide for Understanding Classroom Behavior

by Roger Pierangelo & George Giuliani (2001, Research Press, 19.95)
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See above description for the K-5 edition of the series. [6” x 9”...206 pages]

7 Essentials for Character Discipline: Elementary Classroom Management

by Sandra Davis-Johnson (2001, Corwin Press, 19.95)
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The author shares her "Essential Character Discipline." This is a positive behavior program designed to help students learn elements of integrity, courtesy, loyalty, respect, perseverance, honor, and self-control. This book contains the tools you need to provide an environment that leads to productivity, academic success, and learning. [6” x 9”...97 pages]

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