What all new and developing teachers need: the real basics of effective classroom management distilled in an easy-to-read guide they can quickly scan for time-saving tips or read in-depth to improve long-term performance.
Three veteran teacher-authors explain the essentials:
*Setting up your classroom and establishing routines
*Pacing the curriculum and dealing with transitions and interruptions
*Preventing the most common discipline problems and effectively handling them when they occur
*Selecting the right instructional strategy to fit the students and the information to be learned
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I am studying to be a certified teacher. I found this book easy to comprehend and chock-full of sensible, practical advice. The three authors really know what they are talking about. Highly recommended.
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Two of the authors, Jan Fisher and Ginny Hoover are regular posters on teachers.net. They have been unfailingly helpful with their advise in the areas of classroom management and teaching strategies. This is what led me to read their book. Their talents,, along with Joyce McLeod's, combine to make a very informative, helpful book. After 33 years in the classroom, I wasn't sure that there was anything left in these areas...
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Key Elements is well organized and easy to read. It addresses so many of the frequent issues that come up in a classroom from seating to planning a lesson to intervening with a student to locating resources both on and off campus. Ideas are given for meeting the needs of the teacher, students, and parents. It is obvious that the authors know education as only teachers can. What a great help this will be for new and experienced...
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This is a useful guide to changing/improving the way you run your classroom, speak to your students and manage your teaching. It revolutionised my relationship with a class that had gone feral. They and I benefited from the range of practical advice available in this book. The results of reading it are obvious in all my teaching and learning strategies. Thank goodness for such hands-on help from teachers who still work at...
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