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Teaching children to care : classroom management for ethical and academic growth, K-8
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Helps teachers turn their vision of respectful, friendly, academically rigorous classrooms into reality. The new edition includes: more information on teaching middle-school students; additional st...
Helps teachers turn their vision of respectful, friendly, academically rigorous classrooms into reality. The new edition includes: more information on teaching middle-school students; additional strategies for helping children with challenging behavior; updated stories and examples from real classrooms.--From publisher description.
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- Creator
- Ruth Sidney Charney ; preface by Nel Noddings
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- Language
- English
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- Revised edition
- Greenfield, MA : Northeast Foundation for Children, [2002]
- ©2002
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- 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1892989085, 9781892989086
- OCLC
- ocm50598485
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-438) and index.
- Section I. Building a learning community. Intentions ; I see you, I see everything ; Making the rules with children ; Teaching the rules ; The cdritical contract : a student's individual goals for the year -- Section II. Making the community work. Using logical consequences when rules are broken ; Time-out : establishing boundaries and promoting self-control ; The five percent ; Working together to support the rules -- Section III. The voices of teaching. Empowering language : say what you mean and mean what you say ; Stress the deed, not the doer ; The voices of authority -- Section IV. Further strategies for difficult classroom behaviors. Problem-solving class meetings ; Teachers as mirrors : using social conference ; Individual contracts -- section V. Clear positives. Teaching by clear positives : revisitng ideals ; Clear positives in action -- Conclusion : Authentic teaching