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Book SynopsisCreating Calm Classrooms presents easy-to-follow and guaranteed to succeed strategies, teacher behaviors and class management practices that the author successfully deployed to create oases of peace and tranquility in his classrooms in more than twenty years of teaching in urban schools. The methods contained in this book can enable any teacher, regardless of lack of experience, to create calm classroom environments in which teaching and learning flourish without the strenuous stresses of students' misbehavior. Unlike most books on classroom management, Creating Calm Classrooms is not espousing a narrow academic theory on classroom management arrived at through a narrowly focused study carried over a year or two. This book is a rich distillation of knowledge gathered, examined and refined in more than two decades of teaching. The teacher behaviors, management practices and students' reactions described here yielded classrooms for the author where he was always able to teach and the
Trade ReviewTwenty-first century teachers are committed to fostering classroom environments that increase student engagement and meaningful lesson interaction. A poorly managed classroom will hinder achieving these student learning goals. This book promises to deliver a functional tool that sets the standard for effective classroom management in a way that has not previously been presented; educators across the globe will benefit from its wealth of honest observations and practical knowledge. -- Evelyn Reynolds, English Teacher, Bowie High School, Prince George’s County Public School
Table of ContentsDedication Preface: There are no bad students Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: What happens before school starts and on the first day of school? Chapter Two: Lesson Preparation and Pacing Chapter Three: Communication Chapter Four: Sustaining a Classroom Climate of High Expectations Chapter Five: Managing Students’ Misbehavior Chapter Six: Expectations of the Teacher Epilogue About the Author
