Classroom Management: Sound Theory and Effective Practice

Provides sound frameworks that can be used to evaluate six tried-and-true discipline models (Dobson, Canters, Jones, Dreikurs, Glasser, and Gordon). This reader-friendly book offers pre-service and in-service teachers useful strategies and real-life examples for classroom success and survival, and is an invaluable resource for any educator.

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Overviews theory and practice in classroom management and discipline, for education students and teachers. Early chapters present several theoretical frameworks within which each of six models of classroom management can be categorized, and describe six models that have withstood the test of time, covering assertive discipline, positive discipline, social discipline, reality therapy, and teacher effectiveness training. Later chapters explore prevention of problem behaviors, offer suggestions teachers can use immediately, and discuss school violence. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

ROBERT T. TAUBER is Professor Emeritus, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Penn State-Erie, The Behrend College. He has taught and counseled in K-12, and has taught at the university level for 35 years. While at Behrend College, he taught a variety of education courses, supervised students on field experience, and served as Dean's Representative for the College of Education. Since retiring from Penn State, Tauber continues to teach graduate courses as an Adjunct Professor at Gannon University, Erie, PA, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. He is well published, both nationally and internationally, and has served two sabbaticals, one at Durham University (UK) and one at the University of Melbourne (Australia).