R&L Education
Pages: 496
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-56676-834-4 • Hardback • December 1999 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-61048-655-2 • eBook • December 1999 • $104.50 • (£81.00)
Howard Seeman, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York. He has supervised student teachers and taught classroom management since 1970. He has published over 20 articles in professional and online journals, conducted over 40 training workshops on classroom management throughout the U.S., and has been a keynote speaker at many national education conferences. Prof. Seeman has been a consultant to school administrators/teachers nationally and internationally since 1975. He was also a licensed Social Studies and English teacher in the N.Y.C. public schools for 6 years, and co-directed a camp for emotionally disturbed children.
Part 1 Understanding the Problem and the Proper Approach
Chapter 2 Using This Book as a Handbook
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8 Why Many Attempts Have Been Inadequate
Chapter 9 A Summary and Critique of the Literature
Chapter 10 You're Not Alone
Chapter 11 When Should You Call It: "A Discipline Problem"?
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Part 14 Prevention: Locating the Sources of Disruptive Behavior
Chapter 15 From Outside Your Classroom
Chapter 16 From the Environment of Your Classroom
Chapter 17 From the Interactions between You and Your Students
Chapter 18 From the Delivery of Your Lesson Plan
Part 19 Preventing/Handling the Sources of Disruptive Behavior
Chapter 20 Dealing with Those That Are Somewhat Out of Your Hands
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25 Repairing Your Student-Teacher Interactions
Chapter 26 Preventing Your Rules from Falling Apart, and Saving Kids
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32 Conflict Resolution Training
Chapter 33 Strengthening Students To Be Less Vulnerable to Peer Pressure
Chapter 34 Working on Asserting Yourself and Taking Stands
Chapter 35 SPECIFICS: Handling: the "See me after class!"; Calling out; Fighting; Cheating; Late-comers; Wearing hats; Personal Stereos; Drug dealers; Weapons, etc.
Chapter 36 Repairing the Delivery of Your Lesson Plan (89 Methods)
Chapter 37 Helping the Substitute Teacher
Chapter 38 A Questionnaire for Your Staff to Help Prevention
Chapter 39 Legal Parameters to Guide Administrators
Chapter 40 Checklist for Student Teachers, and Your First Day!
Chapter 41 A Resource Bibliography
This is a book/video all about classroom management, probably the most discussed topic of teachers in staffrooms around the globe. Seeman has put together a handbook on classroom management that has a wealth of ideas....The book promotes prevention as thebest alternative in most classroom management situations and it is written in such a manner that it can easily be picked up and used as either a training manual or an ongoing guide. Highly recommended. An excellent book. There is also a video which accompanies the book in which the author uses visual examples of the ideas contained within the text. The video is also set up in such a way as to be used as a training tool, with each example linked to a specific section of the book...
— Teacher Education Quarterly
Seeman's book [with a training video] offers the kind of common-sense approach to the classroom that beleaguered teachers are looking for. Even better, the just-in-time techniques are geared toward preventing discipline problems rather than reacting to them. The information is so well organized and so complete that it's easy to find exactly what you're looking for.
— Education World
This video and the book are powerful change agents...enable teachers to feel less alone and more empowered to prevent and constructively respond to discipline problems...rich, far-reaching and practical.
— Susan G. Roth, Governor's Committee on Children's Planning for NJ; Senior Coordinating Supervisor, Rutgers University Graduate School of Applie
Excellent examples of troublesome situations, skillfully demonstrated...provides very practical discussion and learning for very real classroom problems.
— Ron Manyin, Coordinator of Student Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Lehman College, CUNY
Essential truths, invaluable for new or experienced teachers; priceless keys to rewarding teaching, beautifully demonstrated!...a guide to successful discipline-free teaching, no matter what your style.
— Carmen Mason, Teacher Trainer for the NYC Board of Education. Teacher of the Year, 1993, and New York City High School English teacher for 21
This is a book/video all about classroom management, probably the most discussed topic of teachers in staffrooms around the globe. Seeman has put together a handbook on classroom management that has a wealth of ideas....The book promotes prevention as the best alternative in most classroom management situations and it is written in such a manner that it can easily be picked up and used as either a training manual or an ongoing guide.Highly recommended. An excellent book.There is also a video which accompanies the book in which the author uses visual examples of the ideas contained within the text. The video is also set up in such a way as to be used as a training tool, with each example linked to a specific section of the book.
— Teacher Education Quarterly
Seeman has created a text that can be used as a self-help guide or training manual for preventing and solving discipline problems.
— Educational Leadership
A comprehensive treatment of classroom discipline. This book is not about controlling children, but rather about humanistic education with ample regard for practical solutions to disruptive behavior.
— Journal of Staff Development
Well received! Both the book and the video are recommended to all schools in Saskatchewan, Canada that need help with emotional and behavioral disorders. Also recommended to the College of Education, University of Regina, Canada.
— Gail Saunders, Coordinator of Materials Evaluation and Acquisition, Saskatchewan Department of Education, Canada
All the suggestions in this book are skillfully presented and can easily be executed. I thoroughly recommend this book to every teacher. In reading and practicing what Seeman is telling us to do, we will reduce the number of discipline problems in schools.
— Journal Of Educational Thought(Jet)
I have used [this book] for several years re: class management. I especially appreciate the sections like: discriminating a behavior problem from another type of problem. [This book] has been very useful to me and to the teachers with whom I work. Thanks for your contribution to the profession. It has been important to me and the work I do.
— Jan Fisher, Staff Development Consultant, Laguna Beach, California
WOW! I am so excited that, after taking Dr. Seeman's online class, I now have a 'cookbook' that I can use to assist teachers in the classroom. In my job as a middle school counselor, I assist teachers in managing the behavior problems in their classrooms. This course has provided me with the information that I can use with teachers to help them view their classroom from both their and the student's perspective. I now use at least one technique from Dr. Seeman's book daily. It is so enlightening for teachers to know that there is a systematic way to handle problems in their classrooms to get the results that they want. I have truly seen the light bulb go on when teachers are able to identify what they can do to improve instruction, handle issues in their classrooms, and create the environment they want for their students by using this book, its training exercises and Video. Thank you, Dr. Seeman for such a wonderful and practical contribution to teacher training and to education
— Thelma Irby, counselor and teacher trainer, Tempe, Arizona