[LIT] (no subject)

[Lucinda Marcello]

Educational World online offers columns with information from Harry and 
Rosemary Wong and Fred Jones--on classroom management. I found these links 
real helpful and concise enough that I could get my arms around a concept by 
reading it quickly here. Maybe this will help others.

http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/chat/chat008.shtml

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones.shtml

Thanks for the great books everyone is suggesting. Take what works and pass 
on the rest!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NCTeacher" <kw at mchsi.com>
To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." 
<lit at literacyworkshop.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [LIT] (no subject)


>I must have missed the question that prompted these wonderful Reponses...so
> I hope I'm not off topic.
>
> I really like Setting Limits in the Classroom. (I can't remember 
> why...that
> darn age thing...but I know when I read it I kept saying, "Yes...this is
> good.")
>
> When I first began teaching (in Florida) I took a week-long CHAMPS course
> during the summer. It helped a lot. Actually, now that I think about it, 
> the
> thing that helped the most was being able to discuss problems and 
> solutions
> with the instructor, a man named Chuck Yerger. (I think that's how you 
> spell
> it.) He was quite good. (As an aside--he had taught Brittney Spears and
> Justin Timberlake social studies. This really got our attention!)
>
> He was big on explicitly teaching routines at the beginning of the year. 
> We
> had to come up with the "critical attribute" of the rule or routine. We 
> then
> created a mini-lesson on how we would teach it. His ideas have stayed with
> me all these years.
>
> Kim
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "May Dartez" <maydartez at charter.net>
> To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades."
> <lit at literacyworkshop.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [LIT] (no subject)
>
>
>> Another excellent book on the subject is
>>
>> The Classroom of Choice: Giving Students What They Need and Getting
>> What You Want by Jonathon C. Erwin.
>>
>>
>> It is about how much easier your job becomes when you meet students
>> needs for power (over themselves/choice), fun, security, love, and
>> belonging, and it gives you ways to meet these needs.
>>
>> Awesome book! I can't recommend it enough.
>>
>> May
>>
>>
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