The Teacher's Pocket Guide for Effective Classroom Management

by Tim Knoster

Soon to be every teacher's favorite guide to classroom management, this concise book takes research-proven information on preventing problem behavior and makes it easy to apply. Behavior expert and former teacher Tim Knoster—the dynamic speaker whose workshops have inspired thousands of teachers across the country—uses humor, memorable examples, and vivid metaphors to help K–12 educators solve mild to moderate behavior challenges in any classroom. Teachers will use the practical, down-to-earth advice year after year to Lively illustrations and useful tables make the tips and strategies easy to grasp, and additional resources in the back of the book help teachers find information on addressing severe behavior problems. Motivating and enlightening, this book will give teachers an "I can do that" attitude toward classroom management—and the practical advice they need to build positive, effective learning environments.

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2008

Reviews

[Rachel Gonzaloz De Reta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me gustó la manera de recordar las bases para un efectivo manejo de grupo. Los tres soportes de un banco, relación con los alumnos, claras expectativas y el reforzamiento positivo. Y el radio de reforzamiento positivo vs negativo 4:1

[Jack · Rating 5 out of 5]

These books always struggle with the expectation vs reality concept but this one contained some good ideas and provided great resources leading to its 5 star rating. How’s that line go “all are created equal, some work harder in the off-season”. Gearing up for year 3!

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great reminders.

[J. Alfred · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is a slim magazine entitled Prevention, which, from what I understand, is about weight loss, or rather, about not needing to lose weight because one lives a healthy lifestyle. This is sort of a companion volume, except in that it deals with classroom management. If we build rapport with students and make our classrooms places of respect and fun, we won't have to deal with so many behavior issues, says Knoster.
Those of us who, like Filch from the Harry Potter books, would rather chain misbehaving students up in a dungeon, accept, regretfully, the wisdom of Dr. Knoster's approach.

[Wondra Vanian]

Text is very blocky, which is immediately off-putting. Pocket version or not, it needed to be broken up with more illustrations. Cramming lots of text into a few pages does not make something concise.

Also a little bit long-winded. Busy teachers want a guide that's going to get to the point.