Publisher's Synopsis
"Research clearly indicates that teachers are the single most important factor affecting student achievement. Research also supports the fact that classroom management skills are perhaps the most important set of teacher skills influencing student learning. Faced with large class sizes, an increasing number of students who arrive at school experiencing considerable emotional stress, and classes in which students' academic, language, and behavior skills vary widely, teachers are experiencing a heightened need for improved skills in creating safe, supportive classroom environments where students are motivated to learn, and in responding to disruptive behavior that occurs in even the best classroom settings. Regardless of changes that may be made in the education system, schooling in the United States will not improve significantly unless teachers develop skills in the widely varied teaching methods generally described as classroom managem
