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Howard Seeman, Ph.D. has served as a Professor Emeritus, C.U.N.Y., teacher, professor, formerly a consultant, and currently a life coach. He has published over twenty professional articles, and he has presented at more than thirty workshops, as a keynote speaker at many education conferences, and on talk radio shows. He can be reached at Hokaja@aol.com.
Chapter 1: Using This Book as a Handbook
Chapter 2: Why Many Attempts Have Been Inadequate
Chapter 3: You’re Not Alone
Chapter 4: When Should You Call It a “Discipline Problem”?
Chapter 5: From the Horse’s Mouth
Chapter 6: From Outside Your Classroom
Chapter 7: From the Environment of Your Classroom
Chapter 8: From the Interactions Between You and Your Students
Chapter 9: From the Delivery of Your Lesson Plan
Chapter 10: Dealing with Those That Are somewhat Out of Your Hands.
Chapter 11: Repairing Your Student-Teacher Interactions
Chapter 12: Preventing Your Rules from Falling Apart and Growing Healthy Students
Chapter 13: Specifics
Chapter 14: Repairing the Delivery of Your Lesson Plan
Chapter 15: The Substitute Teacher
Chapter 16: Epilogue: “You Matter!”
Appendix A: A Questionnaire for Your Staff: “Assessing the Problems and Needs of Your Teachers Regarding Discipline Problems”
Appendix B: Individual Training DVD that Demonstrates the Ineffective and Effective
Teacher, Cued to This Book
Appendix C: Legal Parameters
Appendix D: “Am I Going to Have a Lot of Discipline Problems?”
Appendix E: An Indexed Inventory of the Sources of Disruptive Behavior and Remedies
Appendix F: A Checklist for Student Teachers and New Teachers: “Your First Day!”
Appendix G: Online Help For Your Education Concerns
Appendix: H: Using Technology in Education. Guidelines and Useful Resources
Appendix: I: Guidelines for Successful Parent-Teacher Conferences
Appendix J: Glossaries: 1) Student-Street Language; 2) Technical Terms Used in Schools
About the Author
The fourth edition of Preventing Discipline Problems, K-12, cued to its own Training Handbook and DVD, is even an improvement over its predecessor, extending its eminently practical grasp of the realities of the contemporary classroom into several new areas, including school violence, bullying and technology. Yet even more important is the author’s deep grasp of the emotional underpinnings of the teacher-student encounter and his emphasis on helping the “person inside the teacher.” Administrators and teachers will benefit greatly by using this book as a field guide in their daily work.— Daniel J. Wiener, professor, Counseling and Family Therapy Department, Central Connecticut State University
Dr. Howard Seeman's Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems, K-12, keeps getting better, as this 4th edition bears out, cued to its own Training Handbook and DVD. His years of experience in teaching and supervising teachers in the classroom, at educational conferences and online, and his strategy of helping "the person inside the teacher" are all very effective in helping educators maintain the kind of order in the classroom that supports learning. —Brenda Byrne, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, Philadelphia, PA.; experienced in high school teaching, interpersonal skills training and psychotherapy since 1983.
— Brenda Byrne Ph.D, Licensed Psychologist, Philadelphia, PA; experienced in high school teaching, interpersonal skills training and psychotherapy since 1983.
The 3rd edition of this book was really an amazing tool in offering the Albanian teachers of "Save the Children", the information on prevention of incidents in the classroom and reducing physical violence. Also the DVD-Video was quite inspiring in modeling teacher behavior. Now, I think that the new sections of this 4th edition, cued to its own Training Handbook regarding : Interactions Between You and Your Students; Miscalls; Being Authentic; Following Through; Preventing Your Rules from Falling Apart and Growing Healthy Students- will make this 4th edition even more useful. I recommend it, its Handbook, its DVD and its online course: www.ClassroomManagementOnline.com to anyone who wishes to have a child-rights and child-friendly environment in the classroom. — Besnik Kadesha, former project coordinator of “Violence against Children in Schools” Project (2009-2012) in Albania, Save the Children.
As a big fan of the third edition of Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems, I was surprised that the 4th edition could even be more helpful, cued to its own Training Handbook and DVD. The new section on bullying will be particularly helpful. I always tried to protect the victim, but I learned that it was as important to strengthen the victim too. Also, most teachers' have problems with cell phones and students' sleeping. Dr. Seeman has helpful suggestions here too in this new edition. I can't recommend it enough. It's good for teachers of grade school through college.
— Rosalyn Baxandall, distinguished teaching professor and chair, American Studies/Media and Communications Department, Old Westbury College, State Un
I fully endorse Dr. Seeman’s 4th Edition of Preventing Discipline Problems, K-12 . I have known and have used Dr. Seeman’s research on Preventing Discipline Problems, K-12 for over 10 years. He has insightfulness and IS in touch with what works in the classroom and illustrates effective strategies to a multitude of classroom situations for helping educators with everyday “surprises” and difficulties. He has the common sense approach to the problems and solutions that allow for the continuance of teaching and learning in schools.
— Dr. Ann Hart, Arizona Department of Education. Deputy Associate Superintendent, African American Outreach, Character, Homeless, & Refugee Education.