Classroom Management Success in 7 days or less: The Ultra-Effective Classroom Management System for Teachers

by Rob Plevin

Teaching is made easier when you have a fast-acting classroom management system that works. Rob Plevin believes any teacher can dramatically reduce classroom behaviour problems and achieve classroom management success by adopting this easy-to-follow 6-part plan adapted from his Needs-Focused approach to teaching & classroom management. Enhanced with a suite of additional downloadable resources & videos, Classroom Management Success in 7 Days or Less provides teachers with a framework of fundamental preventive techniques and details a stepped process for successfully teaching and responding to students who have difficulty following instructions. If you’re a teacher facing hard-to-reach, tough groups of students who talk over you and won’t do as you ask, the ideas in this book will help you put in place a simple system for gaining respect, building positive teacher-student bonds, dealing with incidents and creating a calm, responsive classroom. All in 7 days or less!

Genres: Teaching

99 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 6, 2017

Reviews

[Ivonne Rovira · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you don’t have the time to read Rob Plevin’s Take Control of the Noisy Class: From chaos to calm in 15 seconds, be sure to read his Classroom Management Success in 7 days or less: The Ultra-Effective Classroom Management System for Teachers. Even if all that you need is a brief review before the start of a new school year, this 99-page gem is worth your time, especially at its bargain $3.99 in the Kindle format.

Plevin, who taught as a special-education teacher in what Americans call “alternative schools” in Sheffield, England, has great advice for engaging students and inducing them to toe the line. Plevin’s advice has made school much more pleasant for both the students and me. Highly recommended.

[Lydia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Once again, a self-published book has reminded me why I make a point of avoiding self-published books. This book was almost insultingly obvious. Examples of classroom discipline tips include the following “gems”: Employ routines in the classroom. Make sure any instructions you give are clear. Make sure your expectations are consistent. Make your lessons engaging. Um, duh?

Seriously. At best, this is something to hand someone without a teaching degree who is going to be a long-term sub and needs to have common sense handed to them in pamphlet form. For teachers who were more or less awake during their college courses, this will probably be a useless resource.

The only vaguely useful material in the entire 60-page booklet (which consists of only 45 total instructional pages and lots of self-promotional links to the author’s other stuff) is the quick refresher course on ways to improve the praise we give students. But just about any BuzzFeed list or teacher blog will tell you those sorts of things; his tips are hardly groundbreaking.

[Zach]

Classroom Management Success (In 7 Days or Less) has some good stuff. The intentional brevity of the book makes it a bit shallow. Also, none of this is exactly new or original yet there are no references -- a little dubious. Still, some good techniques for classroom management. But remember, every technique has a political intention. 

[Lisa Heusel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Information

Even though many ideas were a review for me, the writing and flow of this text makes it fun and easy to read.

[Patty · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would have preferred all of the info in the video links in the book.

[Sarita · Rating 1 out of 5]

As a veteran teacher and promiscuous reader, I can wholeheartedly state this is one of the least useful books ever published.

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like what Plevin has to say. He can be a bit repetitive and big on himself, but he still has good commonsense advice, which I appreciate.