Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) [Paperback]

Julia G. Thompson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0876284349 | ISBN-13: 978-0876284346 | Publication Date: September 15, 1998 | Edition: 1

This practical, hands-on resource is packed with tested tips, techniques, tools, and activities such as "27 Power-Packed Time-Management Tips for Students," "Monitoring On the Run: 20 Quick Techniques," "Missing Work Reminder List," and "50 Sponge Activities to Keep Students Engaged in Learning All Period Long." Includes over 50 ready-to-use-or-adapt forms, checklists and letters.

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This unique, hands-on resource is packed with tested ideas and strategies to help you create a classroom environment where good conduct and high achievement are the norm???where students become self-motivated and take responsibility for their actions???and where you experience the satisfaction that only a career in education can bring!

For easy use, the Discipline Survival Kit is organized into nine key areas of classroom management and printed in a big 8? by 11-inch format for photocopying the scores of full-page forms, checklists, and other ready-to-use tools throughout.

An overview of the practical help you'll find in each section of this resource follows:

The discipline dilemma: Crowd Control or Self-Discipline explores your role as a classroom teacher and shows you how to become a successful classroom leader.

Getting Ready to Make a Good Impression gives you the organizational skills necessary to establish a positive learning environment on the first day and onward, from seating charts and greeting students at the door to establishing fair and enforceable rules.

Door to Door: Using Class Time Wisely shows you how to maximize class time and minimize disruptions by getting students organized and ready to learn from the moment they enter your classroom to the moment class ends (e.g., "The First and Last 10 Minutes of Class").

A Partnership Approach to Discipline contains ways to promote positive discipline practices by teaching your students how to relate better to you and to other adults (e.g., "20 Actions That Let Your Students Know You Care") and offers useful strategies on how to relate better to colleagues and parents (e.g., "Creating an Alliance with Parents").

Preventing Discipline Problems gives you the methods you need to increase positive behaviors and to decrease negative ones, from using behavioral contact to modeling appropriate behavior (e.g., "30 Ways to Promote On-Task Behavior").

Dealing with Problems Once They Occur helps you know what to do once a problem has occurred so that the disruption is kept to a minimum through early intervention, rewards, parental involvement, detention, and more.

Strategies for Solving Specific Problems provides up-to-date solutions to a broad range of situations that you're likely to encounter, from chronically ill students and bullies to class clowns (e.g., "Dealing with Cheating Once It Has Occurred").

Moving Beyond Crowd Control to Promote Self-Discipline shows how to get even your most uninspired and difficult students to become learners who take responsibility for their own actions (e.g., "Preparing Lessons That Encourage Positive Behaviors," "Giving Students a Voice in the Classroom," and more).

The Most Important Factor in Discipline: The Teacher focuses on the important role teachers play in the smooth running of any classroom and how to take an active role in reaching your potential as an educator.

In the author's own words, "Without a mannerly classroom environment, no lesson, no matter how creative, how beautifully planned, or how artfully delivered, can be successful. There are many ways to help students learn to be successful while managing their own actions." You'll find hundreds of them in this resource.

About the Author

Julia G. Thompson has been a teacher in the public schools of Virginia, Arizona, and North Carolina for over 25 years. She has taught a wide variety of courses, including English, reading, special education, math, mining, geography, home economics, physical education, and employment skills. Her students have ranged from reluctant seventh graders to gifted college students. Currently she teaches English in Greenville, North Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (September 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876284349
• ISBN-13: 978-0876284346
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Best-selling author Julia Thompson has been a public school teacher for more than 25 years. She has taught a wide variety of subjects including English, reading, special education, math, geography, home economics, physical education, and employment skills. Her students have ranged from reluctant seventh graders to gifted college students. Thompson currently teaches English in Fairfax County, Virginia, and she is an active speaker, consultant, teacher trainer and workshop presenter. She has also lead workshops nationally for the Bureau of Education and Research. Thompson writes an advice column ("Dear Julia") for classroom teachers on TheApple.com, a web site for K-12 educators. Author of The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide and Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher, she also publishes a website (juliagthompson.com) offering tips for teachers on a wide variety of topics.

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79 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a guide for high school teachers!, April 3, 2000

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This review is from: Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) (Paperback)

This book is the most complete and practical guide to every conceivable area of the secondary classroom. It begins with what to do before school starts and proceeds with hamdouts, helpful hints, and numerous reproducible sheets covering parent conferences,classroom control, 50 "sponge" activities to use, classroom management and what to do the first ten minutes of class as well as the final few minutes of class. Tips abound on time management, first day of class, seating charts, group work, coopoerative learning, getting help in any circumstance. I have been in charge of staff development the last few years, and we will be ordering this book for at least fifty of our teachers. The experienced teachers like it just as well as our novice ones. It is fantastic!

56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher, June 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) (Paperback)

Not the average classroom management textbook! This book is positive, easy to read and crammed with practical ideas you can use today. It is well worth buying. The book contains many reproducible froms to guide you through self assessing your classroom and managing your students. Pages and pages of great ideas such as:50 Techniques for Increasing Intrinsic Motivation, 50 Ways To Handle The Difficult Class, 50 Actions That Will Grab Your Students Attention, 22 Icebreakers, 33 Ways To Develop the Teacher-Student Link and MANY more. I will be referring back to this book again and again.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wish I had this book my first year teaching!, February 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) (Paperback)

Fantastic book! Easy to read and understand. Very good handouts and guides to help you figure out how good your classroom management skills really are.