Principles of Classroom Management: A Professional Decision-Making Model - Softcover

The Fourth Edition of Principles of Classroom Management provides a theoretically-based but practical system for helping teachers prevent disruptive behavior and influence appropriate behavior while continuing to provide a positive learning environment for their students. This concise text presents an array of decision-making options that guides teachers in thinking about how to approach particular classroom management situations and choose from a range of options designed to prevent, cope with, and solve a variety of problems. A variety of theoretical perspectives, each fleshed out with cases taken from actual classrooms, gives students many choices in how to handle issues that may arise in their own classrooms.

Written for classroom management and general methods courses, the Fourth Edition of Principles of Classroom Management provides a theoretically-based, practical system for helping teachers prevent disruptive behavior and influence appropriate behavior while continuing to provide a positive learning environment. This concise text presents an array of decision-making options that guide teachers in thinking about how to approach particular classroom management situations and choose from a range of options designed to prevent, cope with, and solve a variety of problems. A variety of theoretical perspectives, each supported with cases taken from actual classrooms, give students many choices in how to handle issues that may arise in their own classrooms.