Publisher's Synopsis
Anyone who has worked with a classroom of young children has had to balance the need to manage problem behaviors with the need to support children’s long–term development. In this vital resource, W. George Scarlett and his associates offer practical guidance for maintaining this balance, and they present a wealth of strategies for tackling behavior problems, building young children’s self–control, and developing classrooms into productive, caring communities. The methods described are based on a developmental approach that sensitizes teachers to the unique needs of the individual child, groups of children, and the classroom as a whole.
[ital]Trouble in the Classroom features contributions from master teachers, academics, and practitioners who write in concise language that is free of educational jargon. They present examples of teacher/child, child/child, and teacher/teacher interactions that help make complicated issues easy to comprehend. Most of all, they show the strenuous but incredibly rewarding process of letting development become the cure for behavior problems.
