Classroom Management

Canter, Lee.
*Lee Canter’s Assertive Discipline: Positive Behavior Management for Today’s Classroom. (1992)
LB3013 .C33 1992
Revision of an earlier classic with the goal of teaching students to choose responsible behavior, raising their self-esteem and increasing their academic success.

Chandler, Lynette.
Functional Assessment: Strategies to Prevent and Remediate Challenging Behavior in School Settings. (2002)
LB1060.2 .C43 2002
Very specific steps to identify, analyze, and intervene where there is inappropriate behavior. Includes companion website at www.prenhall.com/chandler.

Evertson, Carolyn M.
Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers. (2006)
LB3013 .C528 2006
Broad subject matter: chapters on Organizing Classroom and Supplies to Planning and Conducting Instruction, and includes management chapters on Maintaining Appropriate Student Behavior, Managing Problem Behavior and Managing Special Groups.

Glasser, William.
*The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion. (1990)
LB2805 .G534 1990
Based on Edward Deming’s business ideas that promote “lead-managing”—a system where workers see it to their benefit to do quality work, over “boss-managing”—that coerces compliance.
*The Quality School Teacher. (1993)
LB1025.3 .G52 1993
More details on lead-management in the classroom. *Reality therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry. (1975)
RC480.5 .G548 1975
*Schools Without Failure. (1969)
LB885 .G55
Chapters include: The Problem of Failure, Thinking vs. Memory, Preventing Failure, Classroom Meetings, Discipline and School Administration.

Jones, Vernon F.
*Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating Communities of Support and Solving Problems. 2nd ed. (1998)
LB3013 .J66 1998
Very specific tools: charts, check lists, activities, lessons, case studies.

Kauffman, James M.
Managing Classroom Behavior: A Reflective Case-based Approach. 4th ed. (2006)
LB3013 .M326 2006
Chapters include Analyzing Behavior Problems, Changing Behavior, Talking with Students, Using Peer Influence. Their approach is based “on the assumptions that asking good questions is a prerequisite for finding good answers.” Part 2 includes cases for analysis, discussion, reflection.

Liaupsin, Carl J.
Behavior Intervention Planning: Using the Functional Behavioral Assessment Data. Functional Behavioral Assessment: An Interactive Training Module. (2000)
LB1060.2 .F85 2000
BIP includes identifying the function of behavior, selecting replacement behaviors, designing a teaching plan, arranging the environment to facilitate success, developing consequences and writing behavior objectives. The two books each come with a CD.

Lindberg, Jill A.
Common-sense Classroom Management: Surviving September and Beyond in the Elementary Classroom. (2002)
LB3013 .L55 2002
Common-sense Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers. (2005) LB3013 .L54 2005
These are shorter, starter books that give practical suggestions for many aspects of teaching in an easy-to-read format.

Nelsen, Jane.
*Positive Discipline: A Teacher’s A-Z Guide. (1996)
LB3012.2 .P67 1996
Ways to turn common behavioral problems into opportunities for learning. Each topic includes a discussion of it, suggestions for dealing with it, and ways to plan ahead to prevent future problems. Some topics include class meeting solutions and inspirational stories.
*Positive Discipline in the Classroom. Rev. (1997)
LB3013 .N4 1997
Gives background to positive discipline’s foundations and focuses on eight building blocks for positive classroom meetings—which offer “the greatest potential for teaching children empowering life skills in the least amount of time.”

Sanders, Cheryl E.
Bullying: Implications for the Classroom. (2004)
LB3013.3 .B814 2004

Smith, Rick.
Conscious Classroom Management: Unlocking the Secrets of Great Teaching. (2004) (on order)

Vance, Emily.
Class Meetings: Young Children Solving Problems Together. (2002)
LB3013 .V36 2002
A short book with examples of conflict solving in small groups or as part of a class meeting. It also explores other benefits of class meetings.


*Noted as classics by Education Department faculty.
(2/14/06 AMB)