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

by Barbara Larrivee

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.

Genres: Education

416 pages, Paperback

First published July 19, 2004

About the author

Dr. Barbara Larrivee is an educator, researcher, author, consultant and workshop leader presenting at conferences and conducting workshops worldwide. She has had a long career as a teacher education professor and has written eight books spanning many topics—managing challenging behavior, respectful communication, developing social and emotional skills, reducing stress, and cultivating mindfulness. All her books translate research into practical tools and strategies. Half of the profits from her latest book, A Daily Dose of Mindful Moments: Applying the Science of Mindfulness and Happiness, will fund grants to educators to implement mindful moment practices.