Authentic Classroom Management: Creating a Learning Community and Building Reflective Practice

This easy-to-read, practical text covers a broad theoretical range and attempts to narrow the gap between theory and practice to provide realistic and collaborative management options. It promotes a multidimensional perspective for managing classrooms while integrating the process of becoming a reflective practitioner. The text advocates classroom management and interaction styles that better align with the teacher role as social mediator or learning facilitator.

The text encourages developing teachers to view problems as opportunities to co-create better solutions, build relationships, and teach their students new coping and self-management strategies. Its many exercises offer opportunity for skill development through reflection and self-questioning, emphasizing proactive ways of interacting with students to create and sustain an authentic learning community.

Authentic Classroom Management: Creating a Learning Community and Building Reflective Practice, 3/e

by Barbara Larrivee

With a focus on building a respectful learning community, this new edition emphasizes authentic communication, teacher reflection, and student cooperation as paths to developing a productive classroom environment.  The book encourages teachers to view problems as opportunities to co-create better solutions, build relationships, and teach their students new coping and self-management strategies.  Its proactive solutions give teachers specific ways to engage with students that address underlying reasons for student misbehavior.  Through more than 100 reflective exercises, readers have the opportunity to develop their skills by questioning and engaging with the book.  Easy to read and practical, this updated resource continues to pull theory and practice together to provide realistic and collaborative management options for teachers in today’s diverse classrooms.

What’s new in the third edition?

• Increased emphasis on tools, habits, and practices for building reflective practice
• Greater emphasis on developing social and emotional learning (SEL)
• Increased coverage of brain-compatible management approaches
• New sections on evidence-based programs including Developmental Therapy–Developmental Teaching .
• More strategies to address troubling behavior, such as aggression and violence, to help teachers maintain safety
• Expanded section on bullying–including cyber-bullying–with strategies to help teachers establish bully-free classrooms