Managing 21st Century Classrooms: How do I avoid ineffective classroom management practices? (ASCD Arias)
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About
Classroom management may be the hardest part of being a teacher: fraught with power struggles, it often leaves teachers feeling stressed and drained and students feeling mutinous or powerless. Most familiar classroom management practices reflect a dissonance between the rapid pace of change in our culture and the decades-old instruction and management techniques that still form the foundation of our educational system.
Table of contents
7 Common Classroom Management Approaches That Work Against Us
Misconception 1: Teachers Must Retain All the Power in the Room
Misconception 2: Classroom Rules Ensure Good Behavior
Misconception 3: I Shouldn't Have to Motivate My Students
About the authors
Jane Bluestein, Ph.D., is a keynote speaker and seminar leader who has worked with educators worldwide. An award-winning author, her books include The Win-Win Classroom, Becoming a Win-Win Teacher, Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, and Mentors, Masters and Mrs. MacGregor: Stories of Teachers Making a Difference. Formerly a classroom teacher, crisis intervention counselor, and teacher training program coordinator, she is committed to changing schools one heart at a time. Bluestein currently heads Instructional Support Services, Inc., a consulting and resource firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information, visit Dr. Bluestein's website at http://janebluestein.com, or contact her at jane@janebluestein.com.