By connecting with their students, teachers can create personal and safe environments that convey a sense of purpose and worth, and engage students in learning. Classroom Management focuses on what teachers can do to create quality-learning environments with their students, demonstrating effective instructional strategies that engage students in learning as well having the skills to respond positively to misbehaviour and de-escalate conflict. Using a healthy measure of theory and plenty of practical advice, this text helps teacher education students develop their own management plan and skills to cater for individual students' needs.

Table of Contents

1 A Positive Learning Framework for Classroom Management Developing a Positive Learning Framework The three phases of the Positive Learning Framework Meeting student needs Why use a Positive Learning Framework? The need for classroom management and instructional knowledge in teacher education Defining classroom management in the Positive Learning Framework Assumptions and beliefs in this text 2 Connecting with Students Quality classrooms where students 'belong' The need for connections Making our classrooms welcoming How teachers connect with students Problems of disconnection 3 Frameworks to View Student Behaviour Introduction Teachers need theory An integrated approach to view student behaviour An ecological understanding of student behaviour Universal needs in the classroom Why students behave as they do - developing your own answer Changing vantage points from which to view student behaviour A major shift from intervention to prevention Education frameworks to view student behaviour Models of classroom management 4 Proactive Teacher Behaviours Planning for Quality Learning Environments What is engagement? Before the year starts Establishing class guidelines Reframing discipline - punishment, consequences or solutions? Restorative practice in schools High expectations and student motivation Classroom routines and procedures 5 Developing Safe and Accountable Classrooms Teaching in a quality learning environment Do not waste students' time! Safe and accountable classrooms Selecting teaching strategies Questioning for engagement Cooperative learning strategies and tactics Helping students develop as responsible learners Working with parents 6 Re-engaging the Disengaged Learner Introduction Common classroom behaviours Punishment and zero tolerance Whole-school approaches to learning and student behaviour Coping with defiance Our needs as teachers and the urge to fix problems Strategies for de-escalating conflict in the classroom 7 The Effective Teacher's Learning Journey A Positive Learning Framework approach Your personal management plan Prevention Responding to student misbehaviour Bibliography Index