Building Classroom Discipline

by Carol M. Charles

Building Classroom Discipline helps teachers develop personal systems of discipline tailored to their individual philosophies and personalities, as well as to the needs of their schools and communities. The text presents the latest developments in classroom discipline, as well as historical and transitional models of discipline, developed by some of the most astute educational thinkers of the past half century. Comprehensive enough to serve as a primary text, yet compact enough for use with other texts, this book can be used for courses in discipline and classroom management, learning and instruction, methods and teaching, and educational psychology.

New to This Edition

* A new structure presents today’s major discipline strategies and tactics within “themes” rather than solely within separate theorists’ models of discipline.

* A new chapter on understanding and working productively with students whose behavior is affected by neurological issues (Chapter 3) addresses an emerging need in classrooms.

* New chapters featuring Harry Wong’s views of classroom management (Chapter 8) and Ronald Morrish’s views on teacher guidance in discipline (Chapter 13) keep this text current with the latest thinking.

* A new chapter focuses on the nature and uses of self-restitution and moral intelligence (Chapter 11).

* New material helps readers understand the roles that professionalism, INTASC standards, and the Praxis Series play in classroom discipline. 

 
* Expanded background information more clearly depicts the major historical efforts in discipline and howthose efforts have led to today’s most popular discipline approaches.

* A video of selected authorities commenting on their work and models is available free to adopters of the text. Contact your sales representative for more information.

 

“The book [Building Classroom Discipline] is undoubtedly the best available on the topic.”

–Edward Vockell, Purdue University, Hammond

 

“Building Classroom Discipline is a wonderful text to provide the backdrop for individual philosophies related to behavior management and guidance that needs to be challenged and developed.”

–Margaret Torrie, Iowa State University

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published December 17, 1984

Reviews

[Pyxipyro]

Incredibly informative on managing a classroom.

[Don]

its the behavior not student, self discipline best, improvement, can i help you what learn, stop respect place back write call principal, ask questions re noise talking resolve, make best decision possible is responsibility vs obedience, restitution resolution reconciliation,

[E.A.G. E.A.G.]

Good overall, some what boring and some stuff is common since, but it could be easily overlooked.

[Emily]

This book gives a comprehensive guide for all the different theories of classroom management.

[Meg Gavilanez-Erickson]

Actually quite helpful and easy to read! I'm glad that I own this textbook. It will be a good reference guide in the future.

[Glenn Tolle]

C. M. Charles provides a very useful anthology of leading thinkers in classroom management. I didn't realize there was such an effort behind running a classroom. For every expert, there is an opinion as to how to approach topics such as student motivation, behavioral issues, neurological-based behavior, time management, communication and a host of other issues faced by today's teachers.

I am reminded about the story of five blind men attempting to describe an elephant. They were all correct, but the perception of each needed to be taken into account to describe the whole elephant. The authors presented by C.M. Charles give us a glimpse of the elephant.

[Tan Ayla]

Extremely useful in guiding a beginning teacher towards developing his/her own discipline model. The book offers varying viewpoints, albeit not in an Asian context, in order to offer teachers the varying models that they can try to apply in their own classrooms. While some of these models might already be in use by some teachers, what the book offers is a way of systematizing these models so that other teachers can adopt them. It is also possible to adopt just aspects of certain models in order to develop your own personalized discipline rubric. Extremely helpful for any beginning teachers who are at a loss for classroom management issues.

[Fredrick Danysh]

One of the functions of the teacher is to maintain classroom discipline to enhance learning by students. Geared toward new teachers or those looking to change their methods, this book sets forth some interesting ideas.

[Riegs]

I think this book has relevant strategies, but I don't like the title or the framing. I work in an intense turnaround school, and even I think that the word "discipline" implies a punitive structure in a classroom. Perhaps "classroom management" could be the title of new editions.

[Kevin]

Probably will not list other textbooks, but this on is really good. Compilation on many theorist, motivation, etc.

[Jessica]

Useless. The models are all outdated, and any teacher with practical experience will employ strong disciplinary procedures anyway.

[Monica]

Great book I refer to often for brief research on the theorists.

[Linda]

I liked this textbook, it was an easy read, and it gave good managing strategies for teachers to use in the classroom. I would recommend this textbook.

[Rory Clark]

good