Transformative Classroom Management: Positive Strategies to Engage All Students and Promote a Psychology of Success

About The Book v

About The Author vii

Acknowledgments viii

PART 1 Assessing Where We Are and Making Sense of the Inner Workings of the Classroom 1

Chapter 1 Introduction to Transformative Classroom Management 3

Chapter 2 Classifying Approaches to Classroom Management and Moving Up the Teaching Style Continuum 13

PART 2 Exploring the Nature of Classroom Dynamics and Student Motivation 35

Chapter 3 Exploring the Fundamental Components of the Classroom Environment 37

Chapter 4 Promoting Clear and Shared Classroom Expectations: 59

The Cornerstone of the Effective Classroom

Chapter 5 Effective Technical Management: 81

Promoting a Culture of Listening, Respect, and Efficiency in the Classroom

Chapter 6 Examining Motivational Strategies 103

What Makes Your Students Care?

Chapter 7 Promoting a Success Psychology in Students 127

PART 3 Developing a Functional Democratic Classroom Society 143

Chapter 8 Creating Collective Classroom Bonds with a Social Contract 145

Chapter 9 Developing Logical and Related Consequences Within the Social Contract—and Why to Avoid the Use of Punishments 159

Chapter 10 Implementing the Social Contract and Promoting Student Responsibility 179

PART 4 Good Teaching Practices Lead to Good Management 199

Chapter 11 Transformative Classroom Instruction and the Pedagogy-Management Connection 201

Chapter 12 Effectively Managing the Cooperative Classroom 227

PART 5 Remediation without Coercion 253

Chapter 13 A Win-Win Approach to Conflict Resolution and Potential Power Struggles 255

Chapter 14 Changing the Negative Identity Pattern and Succeeding with More Challenging Student Behavior 271

PART 6 Adopting a Transformative Mind-Set 297

Chapter 15 The Transformative Classroom 299

Implementing a 1-Style Approach and Creating a Classroom Community

Chapter 16 The Transformative Mind-Set and Making Your Thinking an Ally 327

Appendix A: Questions and Answers on Transformative Classroom Management 343

Appendix B: Sound Versus Faulty assumptions 345

Appendix C: Examining the ‘‘It Works’’ Fallacy 347

Appendix D: Examining the Use of the Phrase the ‘‘Real World of School’’ 351

Appendix E: Common Sources of Classroom Drama 353

Appendix F: Transform Your School: A Schoolwide Student Discipline, Motivation, Character Building, and Peer Mediation Program 357

Appendix G: Classroom Management and Student Achievement 363

Index 366