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Teacher Smart!: 125 Tested Techniques for Classroom Management & Control

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As a beginning teacher of secondary grades, I'm on the hunt for good advice about classroom management. Unfortunately, most of what I read seems to directly conflict with the other materials! This book has a pick-what-works-for-your-own-style approach, rather than an entire management system. I found it helpful for finding specific strategies to incorporate into my own teaching and discipline style.

As many of these books are, this one is especially well suited toward the elementary end of the spectrum, but some of the concepts can be successfully adapted to secondary grades as well.

I bought this book on accident originally but have enjoyed it immensly. I went ahead and bought Watson's other book and it has been a life saver in my middle school classroom.

The nice thing about this book is that you can quickly find what you need and apply it. It is well ogranized and comes with reproducible pages, should you decide to apply a strategy straight out of the book. When you're searching for solutions but don't have time to read through chapters of philosophy on education (what teacher does!), this book is great. There are also some helpful lists of do's and don'ts, which are great for new teachers.