Description
Approaches to Behavior and Classroom Management focuses on helping teachers use a variety of approaches in behavior and classroom management in order to make good decisions when faced with the challenge of creating positive classroom communities. Today's classrooms often include children from a variety of backgrounds and with different needs - needs that must be met if these children are to thrive in school. This text will provide teachers and other educators with the historical and cultural framework necessary to understand approaches to behavior and classroom management, a deep understanding of each approach, and a tool belt of relevant methods from which to choose to meet the needs of various situations.
Ancillaries available, including:
- Instructor's Resource CD-ROM (for qualified instructors)
- Student Resource CD-ROM
- Student Study Site (www.sagepub.com/scarlettstudy)
Table of Contents
Foreword: David Elkind
Preface
PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to Approaches and Methods
2. A Historical Perspective on Behavior and Classroom Management
PART II. RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
3. Building Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
4. Community Approaches
PART III. LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
5. Learning Approaches
6. Developmental Approaches
PART IV. ORGANIZATION
7. Organizational Approaches
8. The Classroom Systems Approach
PART V. ACCOMMODATING DIVERSITY
9. Cultural Approaches
10. The Medical Model and Organic Approaches to Behavior Management
Conclusion. Integrating Discipline and Care
