Middle and Secondary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice

by Carol Simon Weinstein, Ingrid Novodvorsky

Stressing the need to build caring, supportive relationships with and among students, Middle and Secondary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice offers research-based guidance on effective classroom management. It addresses current concerns about student motivation and helps prospective and beginning teachers develop a philosophy of classroom management that focuses on building connections with students and creating safe, caring classrooms. By integrating the thinking and the actual management practices of four real secondary teachers into discussions of research-based management principles, this introductory text helps readers connect theories with actual results. Further, the text demonstrates how real teachers can adapt to any circumstance--physical room constraints, curriculum requirements, challenging behaviors--and still be successful.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction

448 pages, Paperback

First published July 27, 2006

Reviews

[Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A truly excellent resource. Carol Simon Weinstein begins each chapter with why certain instructions and management techniques ultimately contribute to a more productive environment for teaching and learning. I am impressed by the instances where they outline history of pedagogy and its theory to encourage a teacher for moments of teaching that persisted as insoluble. My favourite is when they explode the myth that "learning is supposed to be fun" to build a case in the remaining chapter of the ways that instructors can be disabused of motivation as a stable trait. This book promises why teaching and management is so crucial to any learner in any environment. The case studies that come after establishing its needs will be helpful for any instructor looking to develop their awareness for good teaching practice as well as training their language. This book motivates while being entirely grounded and is specific while recognizing varying teaching styles. Fantastic work.

[Gabriela Hutchinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

helpful but also common sense shit

[Baff · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book really surprised me by it's sensibility. The case-studies were the best. Much theory about managing high school students seems so naive to me that I was not looking forward to this text. Yaknow, like students are basically very good if you do all the right things as a teacher. This is false, and I consciously look for recognition of that from texts on the subject.

[Jaclyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing! One of the best classroom management books out there.

[Connor Oswald · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably unnecessary for the class I bought it for.