ORDER 10 OR MORE OF ANY ITEM AND RECEIVE A 20% DISCOUNT!Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems is a handbook, with its own self-improvement exercises, for all the skills needed to implement successful classroom management and eliminate discipline problems.This book, based on the author's extensive work with New York City school teachers, helps teachers to design instructional strategies to prevent, not just handle, disruptive classroom behavior. Seeman discusses more than ...

The Classroom Management Training Handbook is cued to the textbook Preventing Classroom Disruptive Behavior, Grades K-12, Fourth Edition. It uniquely provides private, confidential self-training for a troubled teacher, or it can be used by professors of education, teacher-trainers, or school administrators to train or repair the problems teachers have in their classrooms. This book includes:Teachers Share Their Similar Problems/Solutions for Each Chapter of the TextSelf-Training Exe...

Over 50 percent of K–12 teachers leave the profession in four years due to classroom discipline problems. Unfortunately, with pressure to pass these students on, with colleges' dire needs for admissions and financial pressures, and with the often rough culture of adolescence, higher education teachers/professors are now finding disruptive behaviors in their college classrooms. This book helps college instructors not just handle but also prevent these real-life disruptions in higher educati...

Have you ever felt so busy that**you hardly hear the ocean? Like you are mainlypostpone?That your life isjust DoingMyLaundry?That you are *a placethat nobody no longer visits?*Then read these poems and feel this restorative call: Come on, come on, the grand parade is passing right outside your door.Theitalicizedare just some of the lines from this book of poetry that awaken us to our awesome privilege ofbeing alive*,*

You and me - we must climb/bend out from under our childhood upsets, get under the limbo bars that could injure our growth: early traumatic events, fears, worries about being liked, realizations about our parents, our first date, sexual feelings, losing a pet, life decisions, aging, facing our mortality. Prof. Seeman intimately shares here the many feelings/events we have all gone thru - so we can gain greater insight from his understanding/awareness into our own growing - as we still work...

The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to Group and Team Communication. Emphasis is placed on giving readers guidelines for becoming successful communicators in groups and teams. Specific emphasis is placed on general introductory concepts, verbal and nonverbal communication, listening, conflict, problem solving, idea generation, decision making, e-collaboration, group presentations, leadership, leadership and power, and performance evaluations.

"This book is a fabulous resource that helps both beginning and experienced teachers examine themselves and reflect on their own teaching practices."Michelle BarneaEducational ConsultantRealize, refresh, and awaken the passionate, caring, motivated teacher inside!Who was the best teacher you ever had? Can you remember the excitement and joy that this teacher brought to learning? Do you want to be "the best teacher ever" for y...

This publication offers clear and positive strategies that empower teachers and administrators to develop effective rules and consequences. Richard Curwin's approach emphasizes student and parent engagement; schoolwide collaboration; and developing student responsibility. Curwin shows how educators and administrators at all levels can-Ensure that classroom and schoolwide rules are meaningful and significant.-Involve students to develop effective rules and appropriate conseq...

Evolution is killing innovation!“Just trust your gut” is great advice when your instincts tell you to run from a lion in the jungle. But when it comes to thinking innovatively about your business, those same instincts can be your own worst enemy. Cognitive biases—the instinctual mental shortcuts we all have in our brains that shape how we see and respond to the world around us—can also be the archnemeses of innovation/innovative thinking. New ideas appear too risky....

Using the most recent research findings on resilience, William Nicoll, PhD, provides educators with a much needed conceptual framework for creating transformative schools and effective classrooms. Developing Resilient Youth suggests that resilience is the missing fourth R in education. When combined with reading, riting and rithmetic, resilience can lead to improved academic and social adjustment in our youth. Developing Resilient Youth is the first book in a series desig...

What type of questioning invigorates and sustains productive discussions?That’s what Jackie Acree Walsh and Beth Dankert Sattes ask as they begin a passionate exploration of questioning as the beating heart of thoughtful discussions. Questioning and discussion are important components of classroom instruction that work in tandem to push learning forward and move students from passive participants to active meaning-makers.Walsh and Sattes argue that the skills students devel...

“A deeply felt meditation on the vital role of passion in good teaching”—with useful samples, interviews, and advice (Anthony Rotundo, The Washington Post)Every teacher can be a passionate teacher—one who engages young people in the excitement of learning and ideas—if teaching is not undermined by the ways we "do business" in schools. In this book, a professor draws on the voices and firsthand accounts of teachers in urban, rural, and suburban classrooms t...