Porter, Louise

A comprehensive guide to classroom management : facilitating engagement and learning in schools Louise Porter - New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, c2014. - xviii, 518 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.



1. The nature and causes of behavioural difficulties in schools --
2. Styles of teaching and discipline --
3. Overview of the controlling model --
4. Strengthening appropriate behaviours --
5. Reducing inappropriate behaviours --
6. Classroom discipline --
7. Targetted interventions --
8. Individualised interventions --
9. Critique of behaviourism --
10. Overview of the guidance approach --
11. Meeting students' basic needs: wellbeing and safety --
12. Meeting students' need for self-esteem: worth and competence --
13. Meeting students' social needs: affiliation and connection --
14. Meeting students' need for autonomy: voice and choice --
15. Meeting students' 'luxury' needs: purpose and happiness --
16. Facilitating learning: mastery and accomplishment --
17. Compassionate communication --
18. Providing support --
19. Revealing solutions --
20. Critique of the guidance approach --
21. Attention deficits --
22. Resolving aggression and bullying --
23. Collaborating with parents --
24. Supporting teachers --
25. Formulating policy about student behaviour.


A comprehensive and authoritative handbook on proactively managing students' behaviour in primary and secondary schools. Drawing on the latest international research, Porter outlines how teachers can develop a personal style in classroom management based on a sound understanding of theory. Porter at Flinders Uni.



9781743311745

2013481754


Classroom management
Behavior modification
Teacher-student relationships
Problem children--Behavior modification
Students--Psychology

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