Discipline Survival Guide for the Secondary Teacher - Paperback

by Julia G. Thompson (Author)

Ideas for creating an orderly classroom where learning can thrive

This unique, hands-on book is packed with tested ideas and strategies to help you create a classroom environment where good conduct and high achievement are the norm and where students become self- motivated and take responsibility for their actions. The second edition is fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the past decade.

• Puts the focus on the teacher as a leader and coach who encourages students to buy into a classroom management approach
• Offers information about setting limits, safety issues, and protecting student's privacy
• Covers topics including technology; disruptions in the classroom form i-pods and cell phones; computers in the classroom; motivating, engaging, instructing students; and communicating with students and parents

This must have resource offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to disciple in the school setting, complete with handy forms, checklists, and self-assessments.

Back Jacket

Discipline Survival Guide for the Secondary Teacher Second Edition

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher offers a hands-on resource packed with classroom-tested, teacher-friendly ideas and strategies. Master teacher and best-selling author Julia G. Thompson helps any teacher--from novice to veteran--create a classroom environment where good conduct and high achievement are the norm and where students become self'motivated and take responsibility for their actions.

This second edition puts the focus on the teacher as a classroom leader and coach who wants students to buy into a classroom management program. This edition also offers extensive coverage of safety issues, including creating a bully-free environment, and contains more explicit information about the limits teachers should set. In addition, it explores issues of protecting student privacy and how to handle chronic misbehavior--whether at the individual or whole-group level.

To meet the challenge of today's tech-savvy students, this second edition includes coverage of technology in the classroom, such as handling disruptions from students' cell phones and iPods, and working with computers in the classroom. It also points teachers to various online resources that will help them motivate, engage, instruct, and communicate with students and parents.

This must-have resource provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to discipline in the secondary school setting, complete with handy forms, checklists, and self-assessments to help teachers work with students in productive ways.

PRAISE FOR THE SECOND EDITION OF Discipline Survival Guide for the Secondary Teacher

"Thompson has packed so much valuable information about student discipline into her new book that it could stand alone as the only resource a teacher needs."
--JILL HARE, editor, TheApple.com

"Thompson's ... commonsense advice for teachers is a breath of fresh air."
--ADAM KOFOD, classroom teacher, Petaluma, California

Author Biography

JULIA G. THOMPSON has been a public school teacher for more than twenty-five years. Thompson currently teaches in Fairfax County, Virginia, and is an active speaker, consultant, teacher trainer, and workshop presenter. Author of the best-selling The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide and The First-Year Teacher's Checklist, she also publishes a Web site (http: //juliagthompson.com) offering tips for teachers on a wide variety of topics.