Cengage Learning Healthy Classroom Management: Motivation, Communication, and Discipline

This text offers students–pre-service teachers–strategies and skills for classroom management that will empower both the children they will teach and themselves. Nakamura offers a practical, yet novel approach to classroom management with an emphasis on diversity. A healthy classroom can be attained if the pre-service teacher ascribes to Nakamura's technique: healthy motivation, healthy communication, and healthy discipline coupled with honesty, dignity, and respect. This text provides the student/future teacher with skills to build each child's strength and ability to succeed in the classroom, as well as tools to foster understanding and support of the emotional and social needs of the child. In addition, it instructs the student on how to instill responsibility, self-discipline, social interaction, and self-reliance into the typical, K-12 classroom/child. Activities are a strong asset to the text: the countless self-assessments, vignettes, chapter summaries, and quizzes add to the book's value and usefulness as a career reference. Review Preface. Acknowledgments. Two Notes to the Reader. PART ONE: THE FOUNDATION OF THE HEALTHY CLASSROOM. 1. THE HEALTHY CLASSROOM. Student Wellness and the Healthy Classroom. Dimensions of Student Wellness. Mutual Respect and Trust. Control and Wellness: Empowerment. Making the Commitment to the Healthy Classroom. The Teacher's Challenge: Four Critical Issues. Equality. Diversity. The Power of the Student. Common Goals. Teachers Can Make a Difference. Summary of Major Points in Chapter 1. 2. THE HEALTHY CLASSROOM TEACHER. Teaching Styles. The Autocratic or Controlling Teacher. The Permissive Teacher. The Healthy Teacher. Expanding Teacher Leadership Roles Beyond the Classroom. Redefining Teacher Leadership Roles. The School as a Community. What Is a Family? Parent Involvement in Education. What Is Parent Involvement? Barriers to Parent Involvement. The Importance of Healthy Communication between Teacher and Parent. Linking School and Family Partnerships and Multicultural Education. Connecting the School and Parents of Exceptional Children. Connecting the Family and the School to Community Services. Summary of Major Points in Chapter 2. 3. THE FOUNDATION OF HEALTHY CLASSROOM MOTIVATION. Healthy Classroom Motivation. Self-Esteem. Resiliency. Psychological Hardiness. Humanistic Psychology. Meeting Human Needs: A Prerequisite to the Healthy Classroom. The Basic Psychological Needs. The Difference between Needs and Wants. Applying Resiliency Principles in the Classroom. The Role of Perceptual Psychology in Psychosocial Wellness. The Role of Existentialism in Psychosocial Wellness. The High School Dropout: A Profile of Unfulfilled Needs. Summary of Major Points in Chapter 3. PART TWO: MOTIVATING STUDENTS IN THE HEALTHY CLASSROOM. 4. MOTIVATION: ACCEPTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE. Motivation and Acceptance. Messages of Acceptance. Accepting Students for Who They Are. A Simple Gesture. Demonstrating That You Care For and Accept Each Student. Personal Biases Affect Acceptance. Motivation and Significance. Making Students Feel Significant. Setting Goals. Leaders Help Others to Reach Goals. Participation and Involvement. Empowerment Through Participation. Providing Opportunities for Contribution. Setting Boundaries on Student Participation. Delegation of Responsibility. Student Decisions. Culturally Sensitive Lesson Plans Increase Significance. Summary of Major Points in Chapter 4. 5. MOTIVATION: FEELING CAPABLE. Making Students Feel Capable. Barriers Constructed by Teachers That Obstruct a Student's Success. Helping Students with Disabilities. Structure For Success Rather Than Failure. Instruction Strategies That Promote Success, Not Failure. Summary of Major Points in Chapter 5. 6. MOTIVATION: HEALTH AND SAFETY. Health Concerns of the Twenty-first Century. Health Problems and Youth. The Teacher's Role in Educating Students About Health Behaviors. Health Status of Minority