Educational World online offers columns with information from Harry and Rosemary Wong and Fred Jones--on classroom management. I found these links real helpful and concise enough that I could get my arms around a concept by reading it quickly here. Maybe this will help others.
http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/chat/chat008.shtml http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones.shtml Thanks for the great books everyone is suggesting. Take what works and pass on the rest! ----- Original Message ----- From: "NCTeacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:59 PM Subject: Re: [LIT] (no subject) >I must have missed the question that prompted these wonderful Reponses...so > I hope I'm not off topic. > > I really like Setting Limits in the Classroom. (I can't remember > why...that > darn age thing...but I know when I read it I kept saying, "Yes...this is > good.") > > When I first began teaching (in Florida) I took a week-long CHAMPS course > during the summer. It helped a lot. Actually, now that I think about it, > the > thing that helped the most was being able to discuss problems and > solutions > with the instructor, a man named Chuck Yerger. (I think that's how you > spell > it.) He was quite good. (As an aside--he had taught Brittney Spears and > Justin Timberlake social studies. This really got our attention!) > > He was big on explicitly teaching routines at the beginning of the year. > We > had to come up with the "critical attribute" of the rule or routine. We > then > created a mini-lesson on how we would teach it. His ideas have stayed with > me all these years. > > Kim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "May Dartez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:23 PM > Subject: Re: [LIT] (no subject) > > >> Another excellent book on the subject is >> >> The Classroom of Choice: Giving Students What They Need and Getting >> What You Want by Jonathon C. Erwin. >> >> >> It is about how much easier your job becomes when you meet students >> needs for power (over themselves/choice), fun, security, love, and >> belonging, and it gives you ways to meet these needs. >> >> Awesome book! I can't recommend it enough. >> >> May >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org >> >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. >> >> Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.2.0/756 - Release Date: 4/10/2007 > 10:44 PM > > _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
