Books : Positive Discipline in the Classroom, Revised 3rd Edition: Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom (Positive Discipline)
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by: Jane Ed.D. Nelsen, Lynn Lott, H. Stephen Glenn
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.53
EAN: 9780761524212
ISBN: 0761524215
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: March 30, 2000
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: March 30, 2000
Sales Rank: 36651
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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The Acclaimed Bestseller That Can Improve Your Classroom Experience Forever!
Over the years, millions of parents have come to trust the classic Positive Discipline series for its consistent, commmonsense approach to child rearing. Hundreds of schools also use these amazingly effective strategies for restoring order and civility to today's turbulent classrooms. Now you too can use this philosophy as a foundation for fostering cooperation, problem-solving skills, and mutual respect in children. Imagine, instead of controlling behavior, you can be teaching; instead of confronting apathy, you will enjoy motivated, eager students! Inside, you'll discover how to:
·Create a classroom climate that enhances academic learning
·Use encouragement rather than praise and rewards
·Instill valuable social skills and positive behavior through the use of class meetings
·Understand the motivation behind students' behavior instead of looking for causes
·And much more!
Over 1 million Positive Discipline books sold!
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Rating:  - Time Well Spent
When it comes to teachers and children, there are no quick fixes. In this fast paced world of fast food, fast communication, with everything moving at warp speed, children are refusing to cooperate with the hectic life that is spinning all around them. In steps Positive Discipline in the Classroom, a way to communicate, work or live with the children in our lives. In several of the reviews presented here of this book, it has been dismissed as too time consuming and/or too soft in the area of feelings. ... Read More
Rating: - Discipline that Works and Teaches
As a parent, child and family therapist and school counselor I have seen Positive Discipline concepts change the lives of parents and children alike. We are all searching for a way to raise our children that allows them to develop the long-term life skills of confidence, responsibility, contribution and the ability to solve problems. The schools that teach these skills in addition to academics have students that perform better in school and in life. Using Positive Discipline will actually save you time ... Read More
Rating: - Sensible, practical, effective...
I have been an educator of elementary aged children for 25 years and I, like many of you, have seen strategies and philosophies come and go. Several years ago I happened upon a Positive Discipline book and I immediately recognized the philosophy and strategies as a collection of those things that worked best for me and my colleagues over our many collective years of teaching. The PD in the Classroom volume expounds upon the original book and offers precise, insightful strategies for classroom teachers. ... Read More
Rating: - for teachers tired of teachniques and methods
This book literally changed the way I was teaching.
In the early 80's I was a new hire at a community college where I was to teach "Guidance and Discipline" to student child care providers and preschool teachers. That's when I discovered what I call the "GOLD" book - the original positive discipline book (I called it that because it WAS a gold color - but also because it was worth it's weight in gold and became a real treasure!)
All of the positive discipline books teach tools ... Read More
Rating:  - If you think your job is to teach your subject...
To borrow an old quotation, this book presents many new and good ideas. But the new ideas are not good, and the good ideas are not new.
I admit that I'm an anachronism here: I still believe that schools are, or at least should be, scholastic enterprises instead of delivery points for social skills, medical treament, and psychological care.
I further believe that a school is, or should be, run by adults (who have presumably learned something worth passing on) for the benefit of students ... Read More
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