Effective Classroom Management: Models & Strategies for Today's Classrooms, 3rd edition

• NEW! Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Students. Classroom teachers need specific strategies for working with students whose behavior is not changed by the strategies that work for the majority of students.  Each model now provides more specific information on how to deal with these difficult students.
• Case studies and scenarios– At least one in each chapter. Places future teachers right into real classrooms with real learners to give them a “snapshot” of the text's classroom management models in action.
• Tips from the Field –Interspersed throughout chapters. Offers sage advice from K-12 teachers and lets students in on the “tricks” teachers use to maintain quality learning environments despite the challenges of today's school environments.

• Step-by-Step - Found within every chapter. Offers practical lists of actions classroom teachers should take in order to implement models of management.

• Incorporation of INTASC standards–Including a chapter-by-chapter coverage chart and activities tied to standards. Familiarizes students with these nationally-recognized benchmarks for effective teaching and creates a handy reference tool future teachers can use in their own classrooms as well as to develop portfolio material tied to accepted standards.
• NEW! Chapter 11 Positive Behavior Support as a model of classroom management. In 1997 Positive Behavior Support (PBS) became an important aspect of most schools’ classroom management system when the amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became law and required that schools use positive behavioral support and functional behavioral assessment with students with significant behavioral disabilities.  Since then, over seven thousand schools have adopted PBS as their primary management plan.
• NEW! Chapter 14 Research-Based Practices in Classroom Management.  This chapter provides nine proven strategies for managing classrooms. 
• Chapter 15 Creating Your Own System of classroom management. Explores the relationship between classroom management and a teacher's personal teaching style and helps students identify their own outlook on classroom management and understand how that perspective will influence the way they handle their classes.
• A glossary of key terms–At the end of the text. Introduces students to the nomenclature of classroom management and serves as a quick review tool at exam time.

In the third edition, the practical orientation of previous editions has been retained while providing you with an updated view of classroom management models and research. New coverage and revisions include:

• New Chapter 11 on Positive Behavior Support as a model of classroom management. In 1997 Positive Behavior Support (PBS) became an important aspect of most schools’ classroom management system when the amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became law and required that schools use positive behavioral support and functional behavioral assessment with students with significant behavioral disabilities.  Since then, over seven thousand schools have adopted PBS as their primary management plan.
• New Chapter 14 focuses on research-based best practices in classroom management.  This chapter provides nine proven strategies for managing classrooms. 
• New feature Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Students. Classroom teachers need specific strategies for working with students whose behavior is not changed by the strategies that work for the majority of students.  Each model now provides more specific information on how to deal with these difficult students.
• New and revised tables and figures within the text are designed to give more practical suggestions for using the models.
• Seven new Tips from the Field provided by state teachers of the year.