Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom

Relationship-Based Behavior Management
First Edition
Alene H. Harris - Educational Consultant
Justin D. Garwood - University of Vermont, USA
Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom
March 2021 | 232 pages | Corwin
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Effective classroom management is the key to truly inclusive education

Teachers who excel at classroom management have students who are more engaged, less disruptive, and more likely to achieve academically. What can you do to confront behavior challenges, both in-person and virtually, and set your classroom on a positive course? 

Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom guides new and veteran teachers alike in developing effective classroom management techniques, with a particular focus on students with emotional or behavioral disorders. Addressing six interrelated topics—student perceptions of you as teacher, room arrangement, classroom expectations, consequences to encourage appropriate behavior, student lesson engagement, and classroom community—this step-by-step guide empowers teachers to create a positive and effective learning environment that is grounded in the student-teacher relationship. Each chapter includes:
 
Vignettes inspired by real classrooms and students
Ideas and techniques for successfully addressing common problems
A “What Research Tells Us” feature that relates current research findings to the effective management of inclusive classrooms
Self-assessment inventories linked to each topic, plus more than 50 activities to guide teachers in applying key concepts and strategies in their own classroom 

Now is the time to alter the course of your classroom! Effective, relationship-based behavior management keeps students on track and makes your classroom a better place to teach and to learn.  
 

Contents

Why This Book

Why This Book

Questions You Might Have Before You Begin

Questions You Might Have Before You Begin

Introduction

Introduction

Area One: Students’ Perceptions of You as Their Teacher

Area One: Students’ Perceptions of You as Their Teacher

Area Two: Physical Arrangement of the Classroom and Materials

Area Two: Physical Arrangement of the Classroom and Materials

Area Three: Expectations and Procedures by Which Your Classroom Runs

Area Three: Expectations and Procedures by Which Your Classroom Runs

Area Four: Consequences You Choose to Use to Encourage Appropriate Behavior

Area Four: Consequences You Choose to Use to Encourage Appropriate Behavior

Area Five: Students’ Engagement in Academic Lessons

Area Five: Students’ Engagement in Academic Lessons

Area Six: Classroom Climate and Communication

Area Six: Classroom Climate and Communication

Appendices: Charts, Resources, Reproducibles, and Keys of Possible Answers

Appendices: Charts, Resources, Reproducibles, and Keys of Possible Answers

References

References

Description

Effective classroom management is the key to truly inclusive education

Teachers who excel at classroom management have students who are more engaged, less disruptive, and more likely to achieve academically. What can you do to confront behavior challenges, both in-person and virtually, and set your classroom on a positive course? 

Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom guides new and veteran teachers alike in developing effective classroom management techniques, with a particular focus on students with emotional or behavioral disorders. Addressing six interrelated topics—student perceptions of you as teacher, room arrangement, classroom expectations, consequences to encourage appropriate behavior, student lesson engagement, and classroom community—this step-by-step guide empowers teachers to create a positive and effective learning environment that is grounded in the student-teacher relationship. Each chapter includes:
 
Vignettes inspired by real classrooms and students
Ideas and techniques for successfully addressing common problems
A “What Research Tells Us” feature that relates current research findings to the effective management of inclusive classrooms
Self-assessment inventories linked to each topic, plus more than 50 activities to guide teachers in applying key concepts and strategies in their own classroom 

Now is the time to alter the course of your classroom! Effective, relationship-based behavior management keeps students on track and makes your classroom a better place to teach and to learn.  
 

Contents

Why This Book

Why This Book

Questions You Might Have Before You Begin

Questions You Might Have Before You Begin

Introduction

Introduction

Area One: Students’ Perceptions of You as Their Teacher

Area One: Students’ Perceptions of You as Their Teacher

Area Two: Physical Arrangement of the Classroom and Materials

Area Two: Physical Arrangement of the Classroom and Materials

Area Three: Expectations and Procedures by Which Your Classroom Runs

Area Three: Expectations and Procedures by Which Your Classroom Runs

Area Four: Consequences You Choose to Use to Encourage Appropriate Behavior

Area Four: Consequences You Choose to Use to Encourage Appropriate Behavior

Area Five: Students’ Engagement in Academic Lessons

Area Five: Students’ Engagement in Academic Lessons

Area Six: Classroom Climate and Communication

Area Six: Classroom Climate and Communication

Appendices: Charts, Resources, Reproducibles, and Keys of Possible Answers

Appendices: Charts, Resources, Reproducibles, and Keys of Possible Answers

References

References

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Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom

Relationship-Based Behavior Management


March 2021 | 232 pages | Corwin

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Effective classroom management is the key to truly inclusive education

Teachers who excel at classroom management have students who are more engaged, less disruptive, and more likely to achieve academically. What can you do to confront behavior challenges, both in-person and virtually, and set your classroom on a positive course? 

Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom guides new and veteran teachers alike in developing effective classroom management techniques, with a particular focus on students with emotional or behavioral disorders. Addressing six interrelated topics—student perceptions of you as teacher, room arrangement, classroom expectations, consequences to encourage appropriate behavior, student lesson engagement, and classroom community—this step-by-step guide empowers teachers to create a positive and effective learning environment that is grounded in the student-teacher relationship. Each chapter includes:
 
Vignettes inspired by real classrooms and students
Ideas and techniques for successfully addressing common problems
A “What Research Tells Us” feature that relates current research findings to the effective management of inclusive classrooms
Self-assessment inventories linked to each topic, plus more than 50 activities to guide teachers in applying key concepts and strategies in their own classroom 

Now is the time to alter the course of your classroom! Effective, relationship-based behavior management keeps students on track and makes your classroom a better place to teach and to learn.  
 

Table Of Contents:

  • Why This Book
  • Questions You Might Have Before You Begin
  • Introduction
  • Area One: Students’ Perceptions of You as Their Teacher
  • Area Two: Physical Arrangement of the Classroom and Materials
  • Area Three: Expectations and Procedures by Which Your Classroom Runs
  • Area Four: Consequences You Choose to Use to Encourage Appropriate Behavior
  • Area Five: Students’ Engagement in Academic Lessons
  • Area Six: Classroom Climate and Communication
  • Appendices: Charts, Resources, Reproducibles, and Keys of Possible Answers
  • References

Recent Product Reviews:

"If an educational professional wants to analyze and improve their classroom environment this book provides the theory behind actions to take and how to take those actions to effect change."
Betty Rivinus, Special Education - TOSA, Canby School District, OR
"Reclaiming Your Classroom: Relationship-Based Classroom Management is a must-read for any educator hoping to reach all students. The scaffolding provided by the authors will help transform any classroom into a positive learning environment!"
Melissa Miller, Sixth Grade Science/Math Teacher, Farmington Middle School, AR
"In light of students all over the country experiencing interrupted formal instruction in a classroom setting as well as white supremacy and racism coming to the forefront of conversations, there is a need for teachers to rethink how we are re-entering our classrooms in instruction and classroom management. This connection is not explicitly named, nor the premise of the book, but the need to reclaim and update systems in classrooms is absolutely relevant for all teachers but especially new teachers. I feel that this book scratches the surface on relationship building, resetting and classroom management and could be used as a starting place before diving deeper."
Macquin Brockington, English as a Second Language Teacher (K-5), Boston Public Schools, MA
"If you are looking for practical ways to make lasting change in your classroom, this is the handbook for you! Reclaiming Your Classroom has practical ideas that can be used for the individual teacher, team or school to address underlying issues of behavior that need to be addressed. This book has self assessment checklists and ready to go strategies the conscious educator needs in the classroom. If you are struggling to teach due to behavior issues, reclaim your time now with this must have classroom tool!"
Avis Canty-Duck, Instructional Technology Facilitator, Greenville County School District, SC
"Where theory meets practical application, this is the book we’ve been waiting for! Relationships, relationships, relationships….we know it is critical for success in the classroom, however, this goes a step further and shows us how. Educators of all levels will find useful information to make their classroom lives more successful. We need it and our kids deserve it."
Cindy Corlett, Principal/Educator , Littleton Public Schools, CO

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