Discipline With Dignity: New Challenges, New Solutions
Filled with real-life examples and authentic teacher-student dialogues, Discipline with Dignity is a comprehensive and flexible system of prevention and intervention tools that shows how educators at all levels can:
Be fair without necessarily treating every student the same way
Customize the classroom to reflect today's highly diverse and inclusive student population
Seek students' help in creating values-based rules and appropriate consequences
Offering advice for teachers eager to develop better discipline in the classroom, this guide provides practical methods for eliminating disruptive behavior, encouraging productive work habits, and communicating with parents. Clear lessons and straightforward language reveal how to measure discipline in a classroom environment, as well as how to handle difficult situations, such as transition times, assemblies, lunchtime, and field trips. A separate chapter for school administrators explains how to support classroom teachers in creating discipline and how to evaluate those teachers.
'Is it possible to prepare you for every problem you may encounter in your classroom? Of course not. But after reading my book, you'll feel more confident that you can intelligently and professionally handle just about anything that comes your way. Dealing with everyday discipline problems and managing your classroom effectively will allow you to do what you spent the last four years of your life preparing to do - teach.' (from the author)
