Rules in School (Strategies for Teachers, ) - Softcover

Mary Beth Forton; Deborah Porter; Chip Wood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892989107 ISBN 13: 9781892989109

Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools, Inc., 2003

Synopsis

PLEASE NOTE: In 2011 this edition went out of print and was replaced by the current (2nd) edition, ISBN 978-1892989420.

Learn an approach for helping students become invested in creating and living by classroom rules. K-8 teachers in a wide range of settings have used this approach to establish calm, safe learning environments and teach children self-discipline. Written by four experienced classroom teachers, this book offers practical techniques for: * Helping students articulate their hopes and dreams for school * Involving students in generating classroom rules that grow out of their hopes and dreams * Modeling, practicing, and role playing the rules * Using teacher language effectively to reinforce the rules * Teaching children about logical consequences for rule breaking * Choosing effective logical consequences * Teaching children to live by the rules outside the classroom Includes separate chapters on what this approach looks like at various grade levels.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathryn Brady has been a teacher for twenty-four years, specializing in the education of students with social and emotional difficulties. Currently, Kathryn is the instructional management and behavior specialist for the Fitchburg Public Schools in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Mary Beth Forton has taught language arts in elementary and middle schools, specializing in working with students with lrearning difficulties. She is now director of publications for Northeast Foundation for Children, where she has worked for fourteen years. She is co-author of "Classroom Spaces That Work."

Deborah Porter is a primary teacher at Heath Elementary School in Heath, Massachusetts. Her twenty-eight years in education include teaching at Greenfield Center School and co-founding and teaching at the Heath Preschool. She has been a Responsive Classroom workshop leader for the past sixteen years.

Robert A. "Chip" Wood is a co-founder of Northeast Foundation for Children and has over thirty years of experience as a classroom teacher, elementary school principal, and teacher educator. His books include "Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14" and "Time to Teach, Time to Learn: Changing the Pace of School."

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools, Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1892989107
• ISBN 13: 9781892989109
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Kathryn Brady