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From Discipline to Culturally Responsive Engagement
45 Classroom Management Strategies

  • Laura E. Pinto - University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada


June 2013 | 232 pages | Corwin
One of the biggest challenges teachers face is managing their classrooms on a day-to-day basis, and in the eyes of the general public, classroom management ranks as one of the most serious educational problems. NQTs consistently identify it as their most pressing concern during their early teaching years. Laura Pinto's From Discipline to Culturally Responsive Engagement: 45 Classroom Management Strategies provides a strategic plan to address this problem in an engaging and easy-to-implement way.

Starting off with explanations on the foundations of classroom management , Pinto discusses the need for culturally responsive practice in classroom settings that are increasingly diverse. She then guides teachers through the self-reflective process of creating their own classroom management style and provides them with a wealth of practical classroom management strategies for immediate use in the classroom. From considering the physical environment and routines, to managing expectations and rules, to tracking student behavior and establishing parent-teacher collaboration, the strategies provided touch on a range of key issues in classroom management and explain how critical these issues are for meeting the Common Core standards and ensuring success for all students.

 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
PART 1: Foundations of Classroom Management and Culturally Responsive Practice
 
1. Revising Classroom Management With Fresh Eyes
 
2. Cultural Responsiveness as Key to Classroom Management
 
3. The Classroom Management Spectrum
 
PART 2: 45 Practical Strategies for Classroom Management
 
4. Comfortable Learning Cribs: The Physical Environment and Routines
 
5. Here’s the Deal…Laying Out Expectations and Rules
 
6. Excuse Me? Strategies for Immediate Actions in Response to Students
 
7. Let’s See What You’ve Been Up To: Tracking Student Behavior
 
8. Pay It Forward: Rewards Systems in Your Classroom
 
9. Welcome Mom and Dad: Enhancing Parent-Teacher Collaboration and Communication
 
10. What’s the Buzz? Student-Teacher and Class-Teacher Communication
 
11. Everybody In! Strategies for Group Communication and Engaged Learning
 
PART 3: Professional Learning Communities
 
12. Professional Learning Community Guide to Culturally Responsive Classroom Management
 
References
 
Index

"This quick-format reference book will assist any teacher, new or seasoned, in establishing and/or enhancing their classroom management systems in respect to cultural responsiveness."

Gary L. Willhite, Teacher Educator/Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

"It is comprehensive, well thought-out, and covers areas about classroom management and discipline that I don't normally see in educational references. The author addresses the classroom management challenges facing teachers today as they deal with the many cultural, ethnic, and diverse backgrounds of our students. It makes a strong contribution into understanding the problematic and ever changing world of educational discipline in the classroom. The strategies provide teachers with very good ideas that can be used to deal with classroom management focusing on cultural differences and the diversity we now see in classrooms across the country."

Ken Klopack, Student Teacher Supervisor, Educational Consultant
Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL

"Where the heck was this book when I needed it?! I've been teaching for 25 years and the methods you need now are vastly different from the methods you needed when I started my career. This book supplies many choices, some old tried and true but presented in a different way, and some out of the box choices that make good sense. There are many methods, Love and Logic, PBS, etc. that work, but don't work for all students and when your school has adopted a method and you are expected to follow it, you can feel lost when you encounter the times that the method doesn't work because you have no other tricks to use. This book will fill your bag of tricks."

Linda Sarver, Substitute Teacher
Retired from Excelsior Springs School District, Excelsior Springs, MO

"Classroom management is an especially important topic facing teachers and administrators. The author's approach to blending in a culturally responsive perspective to the research base is both timely and necessary. The book creates a type of neural pathway between classroom management and the nature of relationship building, that is grounded by culturally responsive practice. Incorporating the relationship and significance of the common core only adds to the development of teacher capacity and efficacy development. What is particularly helpful is the emphasis on evidence, which allows the reader to think self-reflectively about their practice."

Deborah Childs-Bowen, Chief Learning Officer
Alliance for Leadership in Education, Atlanta, GA

This book did not cover what we had hoped it would cover

Dr Kimberely Nettleton
Elementary Read Spec Ed Dept, Morehead State University
January 30, 2014

Laura Elizabeth Pinto

Learn more about Laura Pinto's PD offeringsConsulting Description: Common CoreConsulting Description: Classroom ManagementAward-winning researcher and educator Dr. Laura Elizabeth Pinto is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty, Department of Theory & Policy Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has been teaching in faculties of education for the past decade, and working with new and seasoned members of the teaching profession with an eye to applying evidence and promising practices to their work. Dr. Pinto began her career... More About Author

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