Classroom Management: Creating a Well-run Classroom (Best Practices That Work and Show You Believe in Your Students)

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. This guide offers proven best practices for managing today’s classroom, complete with just-in-time tools and relatable teacher-to-teacher anecdotes and advice. The book is laid out across six major areas of classroom management and includes the most pressing issues, problems, and concerns shared by all teachers. The underlying SCM themes of accountability, maturity, independence, personal responsibility, and intrinsic motivation are all there and weave their way throughout the entirety of the book. Together, they form a simple, unique, and sometimes contrarian approach to classroom management that anyone can do. With updated research and strategies, this edition includes · Reflection on the changes educators have faced over the past five years, particularly ways that the COVID-19 pandemic and sociocultural concerns have affected students and teachers · More emphasis on the importance of developing teamwork, communication, curiosity, and conflict resolution skills in students · Enhanced focus on social-emotional skills and how they relate to classroom management · Deeper exploration of best practices in instructional design, behavior management, and building relationships with colleagues and caregivers — as well as topics rarely covered in teacher preparation courses such as how to navigate colleague conflict in schools Book gives us the context we need to enter into this work. In laying out the strategies, tools and models for critical conversations, it gives us the way forward. This is the guide for those who choose to accept responsibility for interrupting inequities in schools. It is for all educators who know there is a better way.