Beverley Johns
Valerie Carr

The latest edition of this classic book incorporates new strategies for handling violence and inappropriate behavior in our schools, including the implications of new technologies like cell phones, social networking, and cyberbullying. The authors provide how-to information and step-by-step methods for working with disciplinary problems and aggression within the school setting. It focuses specifically on techniques for breaking up fights, intervening in bullying, and working with students who talk back and refuse to do their work.

These classroom management techniques provide tangible results. Strategies for school-wide behavior management and community and parent involvement provide an integrated and comprehensive approach to addressing violence in our schools.

Contents

1. Facing the Challenge
2. The Classroom Climate
3. Ineffective Classroom Management Techniques
4. Successful Behavior Management
5. Behavioral Intervention Plans
6. Understanding Aggression
7. Dealing With Aggressive Behavior
8. Verbally Dealing With Aggression
9. Use of Time-Out
10. Bully-Proofing Your Classroom
11. Dealing With Physical Aggression
12. Breaking Up Fights
13. Police Intervention and Community Agency Involvement
14. Working Effectively With Parents
15. Administrative Issues

194 pages
paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-342-9
$39.95