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Summary: few ideas, but those few ideas work
Review: I read this book a long time ago.
In a nutshell, I remember two ideas:
Number one: Promise the class a reward for good behavior, and reward the class according to how well they behave.
Number two: If a student misbehaves, approach the student and silently give that student an evil eye.
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Summary: If it's the only book you buy...
Review: I've been teaching for fifteen years, have read hundreds of books on every aspect of theory and application, and can say unequivocally that this is the single most useful and important book I've yet to read. Ok, ok, I'll equivocate just this once and add it's partner book, Positive Classroom Instruction. If you are going to teach, these books are scripture. Everything else is commentary. Whatever your teaching style, whatever approaches you take to motivate learners, these two books will enhance your effectiveness and make your classroom a better place for children to learn. You will get more teaching done in less time and reach more students with individual attention.
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Summary: This book saved my teaching career, I've read it 4 times!
Review: I've been using Fredric Jones' techniques for 10 years. I don't know what I would have done without them. My students enjoy them as well. It puts responsibility back on the students and makes great use of positive peer pressure. I'm able to maximum time on task.
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Summary: Awesome !!
Review: This book arrived in my mailbox one day before my first substitute teaching job, and I started reading it right away. I was 100% better off having read it. In fact, I don't think I would have survived that first day without the techniques I quickly picked up. I've since read most of the book and re-read parts of it many times. Not only does it work in the classroom, it works at home, too. The techniques **work**, they build a respectful, productive relationship with the students, and they require little physical energy to carry out. Simple and sensible.
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Summary: Tired of borrowing this book every summer!
Review: This book does not try to solve classroom discipline in the classroom through platitudes. It presents a clear set of behaviors to teachers that will simultaneously lower the their stress and improve the climate in their room. Best of all, these behaviors cost nothing in time and money and they work.
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Summary: Every teacher must read!
Review: This book is more than a bag of tricks, it does away for the need for a bag of tricks with a comprehensive, dynamic system for caring classroom discipline. This system works to extinguish unwanted behaviors every teacher faces, instead of dealing with the same thing over and over again. Information includes: How to set up your classroom to maximize teacher/student interaction, the first day of school, limit setting for dealing with disruptions and back talk, responsibility training, and putting the lid on. If you've heard of different aspects of Fred Jones' ideas, such at PAT, you need this book to implement them correctly. Simply a must read.
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Summary: The best book I've ever seen on classroom management.
Review: This book thoroughly looks at why discipline is a problem in the classroom. The techniques have been amazingly effective in reducing nearly all of my discipline problems. What is especially nice is that it is so easy to implement any of the book's techniques. This book is any educator's dream-a logical and positive way to eliminate large and small discipline problems. Any educator will find this the best $25 they've ever spent. My only regret is that I didn't buy this book when I started teaching years ago.
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