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

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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!

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.

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.

This is a thorough, entertaining, and very useful book for new and veteran teachers. There are many lists and reproducible forms. I am a department chair at my school and will use this book on which to base my back-to-school department meeting this year.

This book contains some of the best techniques I have ever used for discipline in the classroom-and I have seen alot of techniques. This guide represents the most comprehensive set of tools that are ready to use and emphasize the importance of professionalism in the classroom. By reminding the educator that respect begins with modeling good behavior, this book can help even the most jaded of educational professionals.

I have found this book to be an invaluable tool in the classroom

Most discipline books deal with elementary school situations (i.e. Wong books). I really thought this book had ideas that I could use for middle school and high school. I definitely recommend this book for middle school and/or high school teachers.

This book is full of useful tools and advice. As a 10 year veteran of teaching in secondary schools,and a beginning administrator, I purchased this as a resource for new teachers. The author actually taught in the school I now work in. I did not meet her but have heard wonderful things about her classroom. I certainly am enjoying the book thus far.

I love this book. There are a lot of different worksheets that can be used within the classroom. It provides several beginning of the year activities and also quite a few on going activities to be used throughout the year.

What attracted me to this book originally was the title, as a new teacher in the field I wanted to make sure I had the right tools at my disposal. This book definitely met those needs. However, before I go on any further I want to warn you that in the beginning of the book the author says that you should feel free to pick and choose sections as you need, rather than feeling forced to read the whole book from beginning to end. I tried that approach at first and I didn't find the book very helpful at the time. However, when reading it from beginning to end you see how all of the information builds upon one another, making it a body of comprehensible work rather than chunks of info that do not correlate with one another. Choosing the section by section approach may cause you to think that she doesn't really understand what your problems or needs are. (I will say, however, that perhaps veteran teachers can read each section as they need to, but again I wouldn't recommend that to educators who just started teaching or feel they are lost, when dealing with discipline.)

The book contains self check guides to check for your permissiveness, strictness, and overall attitude towards discipline. There are also worksheets to be used in situations such as detention, student self discipline, and plenty more guides that can be copied or adjusted to meet your specific needs.

What I liked most about the book was that she was able to define the discipline strategy that I wanted to accomplish, but wasn't able to quite readily define. I wanted to have boundaries, yet not be a complete scrooge. I felt that my relationship with my students was important, but I didn't want to be mistaken as a permissive teacher or not be taken professionally. She addresses the balance and fine lines between these and why the strict domineering approach and the permissive approach are a disservice to students and teachers.

What I like about this is that I know that these strategies when implemented can work even with at-risk students. (I've taught at-risk before and while causing them to cower in fear may cause them to behave it doesn't promote the type of learning environment that they deserve just like any other student.) I know one review took issue with the author's belief that we should make every lesson interesting. The reviewer said the teacher as entertainer model isn't efficient. And I agree, when you simply entertain you are not teaching, but Thompson is not simply talking about entertainment. She believes that well planned lessons that cause students to use higher thinking level skills will get their attention more than your simple "answer this worksheet" exercise.

This is a definite must read for all secondary teachers.

This book is excellent for the new teachers. SO far i have read the entire book in less than a week and i am on my second way through it again and am going to be implementing many of the ideas in my classroom. There are many reproducibles that can be photo copied to help you get through those days where there is just not time to create a document of your own. I would recommend this book to anyone who is getting into the teaching profession and those who are already there and are struggling with some students when it comes to discipline.