The Developmental Management Approach to Classroom Behaviour: Responding to Individual Needs

by Ramon Lewis

This book describes a system of successful classroom behavior management techniques developed by the author over more than 25 years of teaching practice. It outlines the difficulties confronting teachers trying to manage students' misbehavior in schools and describes four types of student who can be helped to behave responsibly. The book explains in detail how students' behavior can be categorized and how techniques can be introduced to deal with each category, however challenging the behavior might be. It also provides a framework for a long term commitment by teachers to productive interactions with students.

173 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Narelle Mary Clare · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just finished this book to revisit practices that I learned about at The Lakes and that I have tried to draw upon throughout my time in the classroom. It was good to learn more about the Category D behaviours as well as the research into teachers beliefs about the efficacy of the Approach and their feelings about receiving support from other teachers and school leaders. It took me ages to read this book because it was dry and because of work commitments etc. but I got through it and found it very worthwhile.