Positive Classroom Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Successfully Running the Show Without Destroying Student Dignity - Softcover
Synopsis
Updated Edition of Bestseller
"I wish I had had this book when I went through student teaching as a college student―I would have been better prepared."
Susan Hansen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
This book provides teachers with concrete, practical, step-by-step guidance on how to improve student behavior through positive classroom management.
Learn how to take positive control of the classroom
Discover an alternative to threats, rewards, and punishments.
Derived from his own 30-year career as an educator, Robert DiGiulio provides creative ideas and materials to help teachers manage classrooms without robbing students of their dignity. Pro-social behaviors are illustrated through actual classroom conversations between teachers and students.
New to this second edition:
A step-by-step plan for classroom management
Strategies for kindergarten through 12th grade
Classroom Management Matrix
This clear, concise book is a must for students of education, beginning teachers, and experienced teachers who want to improve their practice.
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About the Author
Robert DiGiulio is Education Professor at Johnson State College in Vermont. He earned his Ph.D. in human development from the University of Connecticut, and recently earned his D.Ed. in socio-education from the University of South Africa. He began his teaching career in the New York City public school system, where he taught for a number of years. His 33-year career as an educator includes teaching at the elementary, middle, junior high and college levels, with experience ranging from crowded urban schools to a one-room schoolhouse. He has also served as a school principal educational researcher, consultant, and writer.
As an educational consultant, he co-developed Teen Test, a vocational counseling program for adolescents. He coauthored educational computer software called Language Activities Courseware and authored its teachers guide. His Teacher magazine article The Guaranteed Behavior Improvement Plan was recognized as having one of the highest total readership scores of any of that magazines articles.
He has authored numerous books including When You Are a Single Parent, Effective Parenting, Beyond Widowhood, and After Loss, selected by Readers Digest as their featured condensed book in May 1994. He is a contributing author to The Oxford Companion to Womens Writing in the United States, and Marriage and Family in a Changing Society, and is the coauthor of Straight Talk about Death and Dying.
Most recently, he has written Nonviolent Interventions in Secondary Schools: Administrative Perspectives, a chapter in Peacebuilding for Adolescents: Strategies for Educators and Community Leaders, edited by Ian H. Harris and Linda R. Forcey. Dr. DiGiulio′s most recent books are Great Teaching: What Matters Most in Helping Students Succeed, Educate, Medicate, or Litigate? What Teachers, Parents, and Administrators Must Do About Student Behavior, and Positive Classroom Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Successfully Running the Show Without Destroying Student Dignity, both published by Corwin Press.
Dr. DiGiulio′s interests include international education, child behavior, and teacher education. He won a 2002-2003 Fulbright Scholar Award to the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. He was a Delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 2003 Conference on Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding. Dr. DiGiulio is also a member of the Vermont Society for the Study of Education, and serves on the Project Harmonys Advisory Board on Education Programs. He resides with his family in northern Vermont.
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