Description

Features

• Emphasis on a teacher’s influence on students stemming from his/her own teaching behavior. This illustrates the stated philosophy that the only person a teacher can control is him/herself.
• Discussion of cultural alienation and cultural sensitivity helps students understand the connection between cultural context, student behavior, and teacher behavior.
• Coverage of students' self-esteem allows teachers to better understand how students feel about themselves and how these feelings may be the cause of certain types of classroom behavior.
• Specific attention on relationship-building as an essential component of management and problem-solving gives teachers useful, concrete strategies for dealing with chronic problems.
• A current and practical overview of student-directed classrooms focuses on the nature of the democratic classrooms and how to create more productive learning environments.
• An Appendix, “Discipline Problem Analysis Inventory,” helps readers understand the connection between cultural context, student behavior, and teacher behavior.

New To This Edition

• Includes iterative case studies that are reanalyzed as more concepts are introduced, allowing students to apply their new understandings to real classroom behavior problems.
• Features two new appendices on 1) Guidelines for Working with Special Needs Students, and 2) Decisions and Tasks for Beginning the School Year to focus attention on two critical teacher needs.
• Includes the latest research on violence in the media and its impact on students’ behavior with detailed coverage of why students engage in bullying, the prevalence of bullying behavior including cyber-bullying and what schools can do to prevent and reduce bullying (Ch. 3).
• Discusses how formative assessment and feedback and the use of differentiated instruction positively impacts both student achievement and behavior (Ch. 5).
• Discusses the disproportional rate of disciplinary measures directed towards minority students, particularly African Americans, and an explanation as to why this occurs and how it can be eliminated (Ch. 6).
• Details on the negative academic and behavioral impact on students of out of school suspension are discussed (Ch. 9).
• Instructional PowerPoint presentations and a Test Bank are available online by contacting sales representatives.
• Classroom Management video available at no additional cost to adopters.

Table of Contents

All chapters begin with “The Hierarchy,” “Principles of Classroom Management,” and “Introduction.” All chapters conclude with “Summary,” “References,” and “Exercises.”

Preface to the Third Edition.

Preface to the Second Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

I. FOUNDATIONS.

1. The Basics.

Defining the Process of Teaching.
Case 1.1: Getting Students to Respond.
Case 1.2: “Why Study? We Don't Get Enough Time for the Test Anyway!”
Principles of Classroom Management.
Professional Decision-Making Hierarchy.
Case 1.3: The Vice-Principal Wants to See Whom?

2. Nature of the Discipline Problem.

Defining a Discipline Problem.
Case 2.1: Can a Teacher Be a Discipline Problem?
Case 2.2: Solving a Motivational Problem.
Extent of the Problem.
The Effect of Classroom Discipline Problems on Teaching and Learning.
Case 2.3: Discipline: A Costly Waste of Time.
Case 2.4: The Ripple Effect.

3. Understanding Why Children Misbehave.

Societal Changes.
Case 3.1: This Is the Greatest Thing That Has Happened to Me in Twenty Years of Teaching.
Case 3.2: Who Really Cares?
Failure to Meet Children's Basic Needs.
Case 3.3: Hanging on the Corner.
Case 3.4: Marital Conflict.
Case 3.5: Forgetting to Sit Down.
Case 3.6: There Must Be a Better Way.
Case 3.7: Too Much Noise.
Case 3.8: Afraid of Going to School.
Case 3.9: Turning Off Students.
Case 3.10: I'm Going to Be Sorry When Fifth Grade Is Over.
Children's Pursuit of Social Recognition and Self-Esteem.
Case 3.11: Seeking Faulty Goals.
Stages of Cognitive and Moral Development.
Case 3.12: “Get out of My Face.”
Instructional Competence.
Case 3.13: Not Being Able to Teach.

4. Philosophical Approaches to Classroom Management.

Case 4.1: The Tricks-of-the-Trade Approach.
Teacher Power Bases.
Case 4.2: The Involved Teacher.
Case 4.3: Her Reputation Precedes Her.
Case 4.4: “School Is Your Job.”
Case 4.5: Going to Recess.
Theories of Classroom Management.
Case 4.6: Handling Disruptive David.

II. PREVENTION.

5. The Professional Teacher.

The Basics of Effective Teaching.
Case 5.1: The Popcorn Popper.
Case 5.2: Talking between Classes.
Case 5.3: Nonconstructive Feedback.
Beyond the Basics.
Case 5.4: Cooperative Learning in Biology.
Case 5.5: Three Years of History Rolled into One.

6. Structuring the Environment.

Designing the Physical Classroom Environment.
Establishing Classroom Guidelines.
Case 6.1: Fourteen to Ten, Music Wins.
Case 6.2: Having Your Name Placed on the Board Isn't Always Bad.
Case 6.3: “I Don't Know if I Can Remember.”
Case 6.4: “I'm Not Promising Anything.”
Case 6.5: Calling out Correct Answers.
Case 6.6: The Smiley Face Self-Analysis.
The Cultural Embeddedness of Rules and Guidelines.
Creating Group Norms to Structure Appropriate Behavior.

III. MANAGING COMMON MISBEHAVIOR PROBLEMS.

7. Managing Common Misbehavior Problems: Nonverbal Interventions.

Prerequisites to Management.
Surface Behaviors.
Case 7.1: “ … 3,2,1, Blast Off.”
Proactive Intervention Skills.
Remedial Intervention Skills.
Effectiveness of Nonverbal Coping Skills.
Case 7.2: Notes versus Math.
Case 7.3: Let Your Fingers Do the Walking.

8. Managing Common Misbehavior Problems: Verbal Interventions and Use of Logical Consequences.

Case 8.1: Blowing His Stack.
Classroom Verbal Intervention.
Case 8.2: Jimmy, the Little Sneak.
Comply or Face the Logical Consequences: “You Have a Choice.”
When “You Have a Choice” Doesn't Work.
Case 8.3: “Doing Nothin'.”

IV. MANAGING CHRONIC BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS.

9. Classroom Interventions for Chronic Problems.

Case 9.1: “I Just Dropped My Book.”
Relationship Building.
Case 9.2: Darnell.
Case 9.3: Relating to Cindy.
Breaking the Cycle of Discouragement.
Management Techniques.

10. Seeking Outside Assistance.

The Nature of Persisting Misbehavior.
When Outside Assistance Is Needed.
The Referral Process.
Working with Parents.
Case 10.1: “In Order to Drive, You Must Speak Spanish.”
Case 10.2: “Won't Be Much Help.”
Symptoms of Serious Problems.
Legal Aspects of Seeking outside Assistance.

APPENDIX: THE DISCIPLINE PROBLEM ANALYSIS INVENTORY (DPAI).

Chapter One: The Basics.
Chapter Two: Nature of the Discipline Problem.
Chapter Three: Understanding Why Children Misbehave.
Chapter Four: Philosophical Approaches to Classroom Management.
Chapter Five: The Professional Teacher.
Chapter Six: Structuring the Environment.

Chapter Seven: Managing Common Misbehavior Problems: Nonverbal Intervention.
Chapter Eight: Managing Common Misbehavior Problems: Verbal Interventions and Use of Logical Consequences.
Chapter Nine: Classroom Interventions for Chronic Problems.
Chapter Ten: Seeking Outside Assistance.

Index.

Courses

Classroom Management  [ASSESSMENT]   (Ed Psych / Tests & Measurements)

Next Edition(s)

• Principles of Classroom Management: A Professional Decision-Making Model, 6/E
  Levin & Nolan
  ©2010  |  Pearson  |  Paper; 288 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205625029  |  ISBN-13: 9780205625024
  Suggested retail price: $76.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $57.50  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  In its sixth edition, Principles of Classroom Management approaches creating positive learning environments by providing teachers with a theoretically based yet highly practical system for preventing disruptive behavior and influencing appropriate behavior.

   

  Written for classroom management and general methods courses, this concise text presents an array of decision-making options that guide teachers in thinking about how to approach particular classroom management situations and choose from a range of options designed to prevent, cope with, and solve a range of problems. A variety of theoretical perspectives, each fleshed out with cases taken from actual classrooms, gives teachers and prospective teachers many choices for handling issues that may arise in their classrooms.

   

  The new sixth edition of this thoroughly revised and updated text includes the most current issues surfacing in classroom management such as cyber bullying as well as expanded discussions of effective teaching techniques, functional behavior assessment, violence in the media, cultural synchronization, and student resiliency. The new edition also includes an expanded number of classroom management models.

  More Info
  

• Principles of Classroom Management: A Professional Decision-Making Model (with MyEducationLab), 6/E
  Levin & Nolan
  ©2010  |  Pearson  |  Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 272 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136100880  |  ISBN-13: 9780136100881
  Suggested retail price: $83.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $62.50  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  In its sixth edition, Principles of Classroom Management approaches creating positive learning environments by providing teachers with a theoretically based yet highly practical system for preventing disruptive behavior and influencing appropriate behavior.

   

  Written for classroom management and general methods courses, this concise text presents an array of decision-making options that guide teachers in thinking about how to approach particular classroom management situations and choose from a range of options designed to prevent, cope with, and solve a range of problems. A variety of theoretical perspectives, each fleshed out with cases taken from actual classrooms, gives teachers and prospective teachers many choices for handling issues that may arise in their classrooms.

   

  The new sixth edition of this thoroughly revised and updated text includes the most current issues surfacing in classroom management such as cyber bullying as well as expanded discussions of effective teaching techniques, functional behavior assessment, violence in the media, cultural synchronization, and student resiliency. The new edition also includes an expanded number of classroom management models.

  More Info
  

Backcover Copy

“This text is concise and doesn’t intimidate the undergraduate student. Students need the bottom line. Currently, this text does that.”
—Justin J. Wageman, North Dakota State University

“This text is very informative. It is not easy to find a book on discipline that includes the material that this one does.”
—Barrie A. Brancato, Clarian University

“I have used this text since I began teaching classroom management six years ago. I have reviewed many others but still find this one to best meet the needs of the students.
—Joan Schwartz, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Written for classroom management and general methods courses, the Fourth Edition of Principles of Classroom Management provides a theoretically based and practical system for helping teachers prevent disruptive behavior, influence appropriate behavior, and continue to provide a positive learning environment for their students. This concise text presents an array of decision-making options that guide teachers in thinking about how to approach particular classroom management situations and choose from a range of options designed to prevent, cope with, and solve a variety of problems.

New to This Edition:

• Includes iterative case studies that are reanalyzed as more concepts are introduced, allowing students to apply their new understandings to real classroom behavior problems.
• Two new appendices on (1) Guidelines for Working with Special Needs Students, and (2) Decisions and Tasks for Beginning the School Year focus attention on two critical teacher needs.
• Includes the latest research on violence in the media and its impact on students’ behavior with detailed coverage of why students engage in bullying, the prevalence of bullying behavior including cyber-bullying, and what schools can do to prevent and reduce bullying (Ch. 3).
• Discusses how formative assessment and feedback and the use of differentiated instruction positively impacts both student achievement and behavior (Ch. 5).
• Discusses the disproportional rate of disciplinary measures directed toward minority students (particularly African Americans) and an explanation as to why this occurs and how it can be eliminated (Ch. 6).
• Details on the negative academic and behavioral impact on students of out of school suspension are discussed (Ch. 9).
• Chapter by chapter PowerPoints and a Test Bank that includes multiple choice, true/false, and discussion questions for each chapter is available online. Instructors can access this supplement by contacting their local representative for a password.
• Classroom Management video free to adopters.

Downloadable Instructor Resources

Show All Downloadable Files

Hide All Downloadable Files

|

Help Downloading Files

PowerPoint Presentation, 5/E
Levin & Nolan
©2007  |  Pearson  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
ISBN-10: 0205503780  |  ISBN-13: 9780205503780

Show Downloadable Files

Hide Downloadable Files

|

More Info

Back to top

Simulations in Classroom Management
Pearson
©2012  |  Pearson  |  Website  |  Live
ISBN-10: 013705761X  |  ISBN-13: 9780137057610
Online purchase price: $20.00More Info

Back to top

What Every Helping Professional Should Know About Ethical Conduct, 3/E
Merrill Professional & Gladding
©2009  |  Pearson  |  Paper; 96 pp  |  Instock
ISBN-10: 0137149441  |  ISBN-13: 9780137149445
Suggested retail price:  $8.00    Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $5.44  (What's this?)More Info

Back to top

Back to top

Pearson Higher Education offers special pricing when you choose to package your text with other student resources. If you're interested in creating a cost-saving package for your students contact your Pearson Higher Education representative.