Elementary classroom management: a student-centered approach to leading and learning

Elementary Classroom Management" is designed to help preservice teachers think and reflect on why things happen in classrooms, help them understand the latest information about teaching and learning, help them begin to utilize pedagogical structures that facilitate success and thus management, and finally helpthem design classrooms that work for students who may need something extra. There are four main goals that create the framework of this book. These goals include: thinking and reflecting about the big issues of classroom management; thinking, reflecting, and designing pedagogical structures that when used address the issues of classroom management in very practical and innovative ways; thinking and reflecting about individual children, including those who have special needs; and, thinking, reflecting, and designing the physical classroom with the prior three goals in mind. INDICE: SECTION ONE: A VISION FOR CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT 1. Autonomy, Belonging, and Competency for Children 2. Creating Democratic Communities 3. Motivation and Classroom Management SECTION TWO: STRUCTURES AND TOOLS FOR CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT 4. Pedagogical Structures For Managing Learning 5. Creating ThinkingClassrooms 6. Leading and Learning With a Whole Group of Students SECTION THREE: CREATING CLASSROOMS THAT MEET THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS 7. Recognizing, Accommodating, and Advocating for Children With Special Needs 8. Language and Literature as Classroom Management Tools 9. Asking Students, Parents, and School Resources for Help SECTION FOUR: MAKING A CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT PLAN YOUR OWN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE 10. Creating a Classroom Arrangement that Promotes Autonomy,Belonging, and Competency 11. Managing Beyond the Boundaries of the Classroom12. Making the Classroom Your Own: A Beginning.

• ISBN: 978-1-4129-5680-2
• Editorial: Sage Publications
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 367
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés