Discipline Survival Guide for the Secondary Teacher, 2nd Edition

This unique, hands-on book is packed with tested ideas and strategies to help you create a classroom environment where good conduct and high achievement are the norm and where students become self-motivated and take responsibility for their actions. The second edition is fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the past decade. Major updates include: A new focus on the teacher as a classroom leader and coach who wants students to buy into a classroom management program More extensive coverage of safety issues, including creating a bully-free environment More explicit information about the limits that teachers should set Protecting student privacy How to handle chronic misbehaviorwhether at the individual or whole-group level New coverage of technology in the classroom, including handling disruptions from students cell phones and iPods, managing a classroom when there are computers involved, various technological resources available to motivate, engage, in