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You Can't Teach Until Everyone Is Listening: Six Simple Steps to Preventing Disorder, Disruption, and General Mayhem
Contributor(s): Page, Marilyn L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1412960142     ISBN-13: 9781412960144
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
OUR PRICE: $70.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2008
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Annotation: "Six simple, practical, and doable steps for managing your classroom!"""This user-friendly, how-to book presents "six simple steps" for effective classroom management distilled from Marilyn Page's extensive field testing with preservice, novice, and experienced teachers in classrooms across the country. The author's no-nonsense, accessible plan provides clear guidelines for establishing a positive classroom environment, from the very first day of school, to minimize classroom disruptions. Vignettes from a cross-section of schools???inner city, rural, diverse, large, and small???introduce a variety of contexts, teachers, schools, students, and issues and provide valuable lessons for all educators. This concise guide shows teachers how to prevent misbehaviors???rather than??react to them???and emphasizes the importance of: Establishing your role as??a??proactive classroom facilitator Creating??a safe environment for learning Establishing a relationship of trust with your students

You Can???t Teach Until Everyone is Listening is meant to strengthen every teacher's confidence and effectiveness in creating positive and productive classrooms and helping students to grow and learn to their greatest potential.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Behavioral Management
- Education | Classroom Management
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General
Dewey: 371.102
LCCN: 2008006269
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.05" W x 9.25" L (0.85 lbs) 168 pages
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 231
 
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Publisher Description:
The author distills years of research and experience into six easy, proactive steps to establishing a classroom environment free of disruption and conducive to learning.

Contributor Bio(s): Page, Marilyn L.: -

Marilyn Page is author (with Bruce Marlowe) of Creating and Sustaining the Constructivist Classroom (Corwin Press, 1998, 2005) and Creating the constructivist classroom, a six part video series for grades K-12 (The Video Journal of Education, 1999). She began her career in education as a high school social studies and Spanish teacher and has taught in every grade 7 through 12, at every academic level, in rural, suburban, and urban school systems in different parts of the United States. She has taught at the university level and worked with pre- and in-service teachers, grades K-12, for 20 years. She also directed a major and complex research project for the development of K-12 professional certification requirements in the State of Washington. In addition to full time university teaching responsibilities, she has been the technology coordinator for education programs at two universities and developed the first Middle School Teacher Preparation programs in the Vermont State College System. She earned her EdD from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in Instructional Leadership and in Educational Media and Instructional Technology. She consults on novice teacher, reform, classroom management, and technology issues in education. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania.
 
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