CM1.

Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers

A Book by Carolyn M. Evertson & Others

©

CM2.

Classroom Management for Secondary Teachers

A Book by Carolyn M. Evertson & Others

©1994

This book describes what you can do to create a well-managed classroom.  The process is described as teachers encounter it:  first by planning in several key areas before the school year begins; then by implementing the plan and establishing good management at the beginning of the year; and finally, by maintaining the management procedures throughout the year.  Several case studies and problem-solving scenarios are also provided that focus on critical areas that need special attention.

CM3.

Classroom Management

A Guidebook for Success

by Bonnie Williamson

©1992

Classroom Management:  A Guidebook for Success is a MUST READ book for all teachers and student teachers.  Here you’ll find an outstanding classroom management system, an effective discipline ladder and positive suggestions for making YOUR teaching day easier.

CM4.

Classroom Management

A video set from The Primary Litercay Video Collection

By Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell

Video 1: Managing the Day

Video 2: Planning for Effective Teaching

©2001

Effective literacy teaching begins with an organized environment that supports learners and allows you to do your best work as a teacher.  These two videotapes explore how you can organize and manage materials, time, and activity to maximize learning.  The examples you see on these tapes are based on principles that are appropriate for any primary classroom – kindergarten, first grade, or second grade.

CM5

A Handbook for Classroom Instruction that Works

By Robert  J. Marzano, Jennifer S. Norford, Diane E. Paynter, Debra J. Pickering, Barbara B. Gaddy

©2001

What types of instructional strategies work best to improve student achievement?  Where can I learn about those strategies?  How can I use them in my classroom?  Whether you address these issues alone or as part of a study group, you’ll find the answers in this book.  These strategies can be applied to all content, in all grades, with all students.

CM6

The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners

By Carol Ann Tomlinson

©1999

Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, the author describes a way of thinking about teaching and learning that will change all aspects of how you approach students and your classroom.  The author looks to the latest research on learning, education, and change for the theoretical basics of differentiated instruction and why it’s so important to today’s children.

CM7

Tricks of the Trade:  In and Out of the Classroom

By Peggy Campbell-Rush

©

CM8

You Have to go to School-You’re the Teacher

By Renee Rosinblum-Lowden

©2000

250 Classroom Management Strategies to Make Your Job Easier and More Fun.

The author offers preservice, beginning, and experienced teachers new insights into developing that all-important rapport with students in managing everyday school problems.  The author offers educators commonsense tips and innovative, unconventional techniques that work.  This timeless collection of ideas and classroom-tested strategies is the ideal “mentor-in-a-book” that teachers will pick up and use again and again throughout their careers.

CM9

Rethinking Classroom Management:  Strategies for Prevention, Intervention, and Problem Solving

By Patricia Sequeira Belvel and Maya Marcia Jordan

©2003

In Rethinking Classroom Management, the others offer teachers an exciting and dynamic opportunity to rethink current classroom management practices.  This book invites teachers to become engaged in examining their beliefs, practices, interactions, and outcomes with students in order to increase student achievement.  Providing a compelling structure of ideas, procedures, and examples by which a teacher can develop exemplary classroom practices, this interactive text gives a clear and concise framework for establishing strategies that work.

CM10

Common-Sense Classroom Management:  Surviving September and Beyond in the Elementary Classroom

By Jill A. Lindberg and April M. Swick

©

CM11

Making Your First Year a Success:  The Secondary Teacher’s Survival Guide

By Robert L. Wyatt III and J. Elaine White

©

CM12

Powerful Classroom Management Strategies: Motivating Students to Learn

By Paul R. Burden

©2000

Learn to use effective motivation in the classroom and reap the results – increased student learning and decreased classroom management problems for K-12 classrooms – in this book that bridges the gap between theory and practice with useful applications of motivation theory.  This teacher-friendly guide enables you to determine the type of motivation your students require, and gives you the tools to respond to their needs.

CM13a.

What Successful Teachers Do:  Research-Based Classroom Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers

By Neal A. Glasgow and Cathy D. Hicks

©2003

Built on a foundation of tested, proven, research-based strategies for instruction, assessment, and class room management.  This book provides 91 key strategies for improving and re-energizing classroom practice.  Combining theory, research, and practical suggestions, the authors cover curriculum and pedagogy, discipline and classroom management, assessment, relating to students, working with special-needs students, embracing diversity, integrating technology in the classroom, interacting with parents, collaborating with colleagues, developing a professional identity, time management, self management and organization.

CM13b.

What Successful Teachers Do:  Research-Based Classroom Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers

By Neal A. Glasgow and Cathy D. Hicks

©2003

Built on a foundation of tested, proven, research-based strategies for instruction, assessment, and classroom management.  This book provides 91 key strategies for improving and re-energizing classroom practice.  Combining theory, research, and practical suggestions, the authors cover curriculum and pedagogy, discipline and classroom management, assessment, relating to students, working with special-needs students, embracing diversity, integrating technology in the classroom, interacting with parents, collaborating with colleagues, developing a professional identity, time management, self management and organization.

CM14

Best Practices for High School Classrooms:  What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do

By Randi Stone

©2002

The author provides an inspirational, one-stop guide to the highest impact teaching practices of the nation’s best and brightest high school educators.  Through detailed, first-hand accounts of winning strategies, this book offers an exclusive glimpse into exemplary classrooms across the country.  Outstanding teachers generously share their unique insights, innovative lesson plans, and expertise garnered through years of experience, forming an instant network and rich resource for practicing as well as future teachers. 

CM15

Activities That Teach

By Tom Jackson

© 1993

Contains sixty different lesson plans to influence student behavior and attitudes for a lifetime.

CM16

More Activities That Teach

By Tom Jackson

© 1995

This book has more expanded opening chapters with new research information and insights gained over the past few years.  There are two totally new chapters responding to people’s conversations with the author.

CM17

Still More Activities That Teach

By Tom Jackson

©2000

This book was written with families in mind.  The activities in it allow a single parent with one child or a two-parent family with lots of kids to join together and have fun while learning valuable lessons at the same time.

CM18

Conducting Group Discussions with Kids

By Tom Jackson

© 2002

This book will help those who want to make bad discussions better, and good discussions great and every discussion meaningful!

CM19

Classroom Management

A Thinking and Caring Approach

By Barrie Bennett & Peter Smilanich

© 1994       

This book was written so that experiences teachers, beginning teachers, and educators in staff development positions will be able to extend their thinking skills related to classroom management.