Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating Communities of Support and Solving Problems, Seventh Edition [Paperback]

Vern Jones (Author), Louise Jones (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0205380832 | ISBN-13: 978-0205380831 | Publication Date: July 3, 2003 | Edition: 7

Comprehensive Classroom Management presents practical methods for creating a positive learning environment, working with behavioral problems, and dealing with a range of challenges in the K-12 classroom. This text uses real-life examples to help both pre- and in-service teachers understand and apply the principles of classroom management in their classroom situations. This book uses numerous case studies, examples, and descriptions of specific strategies based on solid research and classroom experience, Comprehensive Classroom Management features classrooms ranging from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The book focuses on creating positive learning environments for students, and provides extensive, practical materials on both problem-solving and building individual behavior change plans for students with behavioral problems.

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“This is an outstanding book. I love how the authors have spelled out practical ways to bridge research and practice.”
Kathy Piechura-Couture
Stetson University

Comprehensive Classroom Management presents practical methods for creating a positive learning environment, working with behavioral problems, and dealing with a range of challenges in the K-12 classroom.

This text uses real-life examples to help both pre- and in-service teachers understand and apply the principles of classroom management in their own classroom situations. Through numerous case studies, examples, and descriptions of specific strategies based on solid research and classroom experience, Comprehensive Classroom Management features classrooms ranging from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The book focuses on creating positive learning environments for students, and provides extensive, practical materials on both problem solving and building individual behavior change plans for students with behavioral problems.

New to this Edition:

• Rewritten thoroughly to edit excess quotes, references, and theory, while still offering clarity in background and research, the book is more concise and reads more smoothly.
• “Pause and Consider” sections located throughout each chapter assist the student in applying the book's content to real-life situations and discussing the material with classmates.
• Additional illustrations, added throughout the book, enhance student interest and lighten the mood of the text.
• Graphic organizers, placed throughout the text, give students and instructors cognitive organizers to augment their experience.
• Internet references throughout the book provide students and instructors with material to supplement the text's content.
• New! Complete Instructor's Manual and CD with sample test items, activities, reproducible forms and links to useful sites will make course preparation far easier.
• New! Classroom vignettes video free to adopters will illustrate management issues in short clips.

About the Author

Vern Jones is the curernt Chair of the Education Department at Lewis & Clark College Graduate School of Education and Counseling. He has experience as a junior high school teacher of students with emotional and behavior problems, a junior high school vice principal, and a district resource coordinator for students with emotional and behavior disorders. From 1986 to 1989, Vern was co-chair of the American Educational Research Association's special interest group on classroom management. He has served as a scholar in residence in the department of education at Western Michigan State University, visited California State University at Riverside as a Distinguished Scholar, given the centennial address for the University of Idaho School of Education, and served as a distinguished lecture series presenter at Hastings College in Nebraska. In 1990, he won the Burlington Northern Award as Graduate School Teacher of the Year at Lewis & Clark College. He has given keynote addresses at state conferences in over ten states and consulted with school districts and staff in over 25 states.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 7 edition (July 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205380832
• ISBN-13: 978-0205380831
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #724,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars required class reading, February 21, 2005

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S. Reed (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating Communities of Support and Solving Problems, Seventh Edition (Paperback)

I was required to purchase this book for a class I am currently taking. While the content of the book could be useful, the manner in which it is written is laden with ridiculous run-on ideas that could be communicated much more clearly. Here is an example from page 28:

"Regardless of the extent to which teachers decide to adapt to the norms and parenting styles of their student's culture or systematically assists students in learning to adapt while maintaining their cultural values, the point is that as educators we are willing to examine our own beliefs and way of working with students in light of the contextual variables existing in the classroom, school and community."

To students who may be required to read this text: Good luck. Perhaps you can change classes before it is too late.

To professors who may add this book to their required reading list: Please, please, please pass on this text and choose something more relevant and tangible for your students.

To educators who may choose this book to answer questions or add to their professional library: choose something else. This book is useless. My advice is your time will be better spent going to talk to teachers who have been in the field rather than reading this book.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Classroom Management, February 25, 2006

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J. Anderson (Nine Mile Falls, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating Communities of Support and Solving Problems, Seventh Edition (Paperback)

I had to buy and read this book for a classroom management class. It is a great book for comparing the most recent research available. However, you usually need to read five to ten pages of what could have been stated in a paragraph. I do feel that I really understand the material by the time I finish reading the book. I have also used many of the ideas in my classroom to try and improve my classroom management in my student teaching experience.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly comprehensive, informative, and well-researched!, April 10, 2008

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P. Perreault (NY, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating Communities of Support and Solving Problems (8th Edition) (Paperback)

I felt I should write this review after seeing the bad wrap it got from another reviewer. I am doing my thesis on classroom discipline and out of all the books I've read on the subject, this one gave me the best insight and critique of the history of discipline research as well as great ideas for teachers on how to go about creating their own classroom management plan. This book touched on all areas important to successful classroom management; I have not found everything covered here in any other single source. This book is a must for all new teachers who really want to succeed!