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Positive Classroom Discipline

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I had been teaching 7th and 8th grade science for two years at an inner city school and was doing fine. I had my classes under control, but I was getting worn out keeping them under control. I read the intro to this book and couldn't wait to finish it and implement his methods. I read it over again during the two weeks before school for the next 4 summers to refresh myself. He clearly explains methods to maintain perfect control and cooperation with less work and keep your own stress level way down. I go home much more relaxed now. The kids love it too. He originaly developed these methods at schools for the severely emotionally disabled, so I'm sure they will work anywhere.

I have been using this program for 6 years with my emotionally handicapped class. Teaching is easy and fun due to Jones' simplistic and cost effective ways to self-eliminate behavior. I went from an average of 15 office referrals a week down to less than 5 all year! Best of all the kids are happy and test scores are on the rise! This is the first easy program that applies in any classroom and on the parental home front too!

This book is more than a bag of tricks, it does away for the need for a bag of tricks with a comprehensive, dynamic system for caring classroom discipline. This system works to extinguish unwanted behaviors every teacher faces, instead of dealing with the same thing over and over again.

Information includes: How to set up your classroom to maximize teacher/student interaction, the first day of school, limit setting for dealing with disruptions and back talk, responsibility training, and putting the lid on. If you've heard of different aspects of Fred Jones' ideas, such at PAT, you need this book to implement them correctly. Simply a must read.

I've been teaching for fifteen years, have read hundreds of books on every aspect of theory and application, and can say unequivocally that this is the single most useful and important book I've yet to read. Ok, ok, I'll equivocate just this once and add it's partner book, Positive Classroom Instruction. If you are going to teach, these books are scripture. Everything else is commentary. Whatever your teaching style, whatever approaches you take to motivate learners, these two books will enhance your effectiveness and make your classroom a better place for children to learn. You will get more teaching done in less time and reach more students with individual attention.

This book does not try to solve classroom discipline in the classroom through platitudes. It presents a clear set of behaviors to teachers that will simultaneously lower the their stress and improve the climate in their room. Best of all, these behaviors cost nothing in time and money and they work.

This book thoroughly looks at why discipline is a problem in the classroom. The techniques have been amazingly effective in reducing nearly all of my discipline problems. What is especially nice is that it is so easy to implement any of the book's techniques. This book is any educator's dream-a logical and positive way to eliminate large and small discipline problems. Any educator will find this the best $25 they've ever spent. My only regret is that I didn't buy this book when I started teaching years ago.

Every teacher needs a bag of tricks for classroom management. Here are some wonderful ideas that make for one effective little bag!

Fredric Jones offers easy to understand techniques in a step-by-step manner that allows you to choose, apply and follow-up on different ideas. He also gives variations and ways to partially apply the techniques. This way you can pick and choose what you want!

Even in my substituting days I could weave a classroom together in a 50 minute period using these techniques!

I am FINALLY buying this book! I have borrowed this book for the past three summers and Ive realized I can't live without it. This book has changed my career. I no longer nag or "pheasant posture"--I actually spend my days teaching!!!

I've been using Fredric Jones' techniques for 10 years. I don't know what I would have done without them. My students enjoy them as well. It puts responsibility back on the students and makes great use of positive peer pressure. I'm able to maximum time on task.

This book arrived in my mailbox one day before my first substitute teaching job, and I started reading it right away. I was 100% better off having read it. In fact, I don't think I would have survived that first day without the techniques I quickly picked up. I've since read most of the book and re-read parts of it many times. Not only does it work in the classroom, it works at home, too. The techniques **work**, they build a respectful, productive relationship with the students, and they require little physical energy to carry out. Simple and sensible.