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Article: CLASSROOM PRACTICE: The Brilliant Inventiveness of Student Misbehavior: Test Your Classroom Management Skills.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Take the quiz and see how you measure up to Ms. Chase, a seasoned classroom manager who has seen it all.
MOST TEACHERS have read a book or two on classroom management -- if not during their actual working careers then at least while they were in college. Generations of us have been trained according to the latest wave of enlightenment, such as behaviorism, reality therapy, or logical consequences. All these approaches have a core of common sense and tidbits of wisdom, and all offer a canned solution to the gritty problem of managing a classroom of young people.
I have read a good number of books on classroom management, and none of them has made me an ...