Practical Classroom Management, 2nd edition

Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eTextThe Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Practice classroom management decision making. Includes interactive classroom simulations, real-life case studies, and vignettes to help the reader become a decision-maker. (See pages 24, 70, 125, 137, 147, and 192 for examples.)
• Ready-made tools to take into the classroom. Includes extensive practical tools like Action Plans, pre-made Forms, Reflection Questionnaires, and Checklists that provide readers with concrete tools to assess their understanding and to implement research-validated best practices in classrooms. (See pages 71 and 92 for examples.)

Students can experience the advantages of the Enhanced Pearson eText along with all the benefits of print for 40% to 50% less than a print bound book! Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks to register for your digital examination copy.

Additional text features include:

• Understand how to create caring and productive classroom environments. Focuses on creating classrooms as “communities of support” while presenting methods for increasing student motivation and fostering positive, pro-social student behavior.  (See Chapters 2 and 3.)
• Understand the root causes of behavior problems and learn specific techniques for working with difficult students.  Considers both the “whys” and “hows” of behavior problems and discusses specific methods for use in the classroom.  (See Chapters 6 and 7.)

Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText
The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Practice classroom management decision making. Includes interactive classroom simulations, real-life case studies, and vignettes to help the reader become a decision-maker. (See pages 24, 70, 125, 137, 147, and 192 for examples.)
• Ready-made tools to take into the classroom. Includes extensive practical tools like Action Plans, pre-made Forms, Reflection Questionnaires, and Checklists that provide readers with concrete tools to assess their understanding and to implement research-validated best practices in classrooms. (See pages 71 and 92 for examples.)

Students can experience the advantages of the Enhanced Pearson eText along with all the benefits of print for 40% to 50% less than a print bound book! Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks to register for your digital examination copy.

• Interactive Classroom Management Simulations on Creating Classroom Behavioral Expectations; Helping All Students Believe They Can Achieve; Developing Positive Teacher Student Relationships with All Students; Responding to Mildly Disruptive Behavior; Effectively Handling Transitions; Responding to Students’ Failure to Follow Classroom Expectations; Dealing with Situations Where Students Are Being Bullied/Harassed; Creating an Effective Classroom “Discipline” Policy; Understanding “Triggers” for Unproductive Student Behavior, and Preventing this Behavior; and Developing Behavior Change Plans for Students Who Demonstrate Serious and /or Persistent Disruptive Behaviors (see pages 125, 137, 147, 192, and 207).
• Methods for preventing and responding to bullying, including cyberbullying (see page 65).
• Detailed, practical methods for responding to common situations teachers face regarding student disruptions of learning, including the use of reinforcement (see pages 139-141 and 186-195).
• The most current ideas and methods for incorporating a function-based approach to understanding student behavior and developing individual behavior change plans (see pages 231-237).
• Coverage of how teachers can effectively deal with issues related to students’ use and misuse of electronic devices in the classroom (see page 119).
• Updated section on how practical classroom management relates to PBIS (see page 7).
• New material on brain-based teaching infused throughout the book (see pages 154 and 168).