Becoming an Effective Classroom Manager

Bob F. Steere

SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1988 - Education - 215 pages

Over the years, classroom management remains one of the greatest educational concerns of teachers, administrators, and parents. This practical resource for developing and upgrading personal classroom management skills and systems addresses that concern and will prove to be an invaluable guide for preservice and practicing educators.

Utilizing a balanced approach based on both scholarship and experience, Becoming an Effective Classroom Manager provides a discussion of models of management, a summary of effectiveness research and related management techniques, as well as coverage of routine and more complex managerial concerns and procedures. Steere's approach is multi-faceted, interweaving three areas of concern: prevention of disciplinary problems, dealing/coping with disciplinary problems, and development of techniques for insuring that problems do not recur. The book is filled with suggestions and techniques that have been successfully utilized in public school classrooms.

The author argues that institutions of higher learning must produce teachers who are equally adept and confident in their teaching methods, management skills, and their subject matter. His work will help teachers become not only better managers, but more effective teachers as well.

Contents

• A Portrayal of School Discipline: 3
• Classroom Management Approaches: 11
• Analyzing the models: 13
• Creating your own classroom management system: 14
• Management Models: 17
• Ginotts congruent communication: 19
• Maslows hierarchy of needs: 21
• Values and morality: 23
• Transactional analysis: 26
• Dreikurss mistaken goal model: 29
• Glassers reality therapy: 32
• Contingency management: 36
• Canters assertive behavior: 46
• Joness management training: 50
• The Relationship of Research to Classroom Management: 63
• Research Relating to the Improvement of Instruction and Classroom Management: 65
• Research summaries: 69
• Consequences: 70
• Instructional methods: 71
• Monitoring: 72
• Seatwork: 73
• Managerial concerns: 74
• Accountability: 75
• Rules: 76
• Testing and grading: 77
• Time on task: 78
• The Use of Research to Improve Instruction Time on Task: 81
• Terms: 84
• Unengaged categories: 85
• Procedures: 88
• Approaches to Increasing Time on Task: 91
• The Use of Research to Improve Instruction Getting Ready to Manage Students: 99
• Preinstructional organization: 101
• Establishing Rules and Procedures: 103
• Student Accountability: 105
• Additional Managerial Concerns Methods and Resources: 111
• Routine Managerial Concerns and Methods: 113
• Force: 115
• Firmness versus roughness sarcasm and criticism: 116
• Lowprofile control: 117
• Rules: 118
• Consequences: 119
• Hierarchical consequences: 121
• Punishment: 122
• Transitions: 123
• Desist techniques: 124
• Seatwork assistance: 127
• Special Managerial Concerns Methods and Resources: 133
• Crying: 134
• Rudeness toward the teacher: 135
• Tattling: 136
• Excuses: 137
• Corporal punishment: 139
• Stealing and cheating: 140
• Isolation: 145
• Cultural differences: 147
• Human resources: 149
• Appendices: 155
• Time Expenditures Lunch Count and Dismissal: 156
• Funny money Management System: 159
• How Am I Ever Going to Control this Class?: 163
• Classroom Auctions A Bonus for Students and Teacher: 165
• Signs of Drug Use: 167
• Sample Contract: 169
• Award Certificate: 170
• Signal card: 171
• List of reinforcers: 173
• Behavior Blossom source unknown: 176
• Conduct Countdown source unknown: 178
• Learnball: 180
• Other Managerial Techniques Discouraging slowness of work: 182
• Discouraging outofseat behavior: 183
• Beads as positive reinforcers: 184
• Handling visitors: 185
• Bulletin board for reinforcing behavior: 186
• Signal systems: 187
• Clothespins to check roll: 188
• Daily report cards: 189
• Different rules for different activities: 190
• References: 192
• Index: 209

About the author

Bob Steere is Professor of Education at Missouri Southern State College.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Becoming an Effective Classroom Manager; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Author: Bob F. Steere
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SUNY Press, 1988
• ISBN: 0887066208, 9780887066207
• Length: 215 pages
• Subjects: Education / General