Publisher's Synopsis
Build your own approach for solving discipline problems
Offering a wide range of methods and practical advice, this Sixth Edition of Wolfgang's Solving Discipline and Classroom Management Problems once again equips teachers with tools they need to deal effectively with a range of discipline/management problems in the classroom––from minor misbehavior to serious assaults. Coverage spans reactive approaches within the Rules–Consequences, Confronting–Contracting, and Relationship Listening models, as well as proactive models related to Peer Mediation, the Judicious/Ethical model, and Direct Teaching of Social Skills to Students.
Features
- A new chapter discusses how to deal with and support parents.
- Includes proactive models and techniques for preventing problems, as well as new models of Love and Logic, Discipline with Dignity, and Linda Albert's Cooperative Discipline.
- Examines current practices for dealing with assaultive and potentially violent students.
- Clear, unbiased explanations of each model include strengths and weaknesses.
- A step–by–step process helps you build your own discipline/classroom management system.
- Examples show how to implement each model in specific situations.
- A Beliefs About Discipline inventory enables you to determine which discipline models best fit your own personality.
