Managing the Classroom Environment: Meeting the Needs of the Student

by Suzanne G Houff

Overview

Using William Glasser’s ideas as a foundation, this text explores the five basic needs and their implication for classroom management. Additional management concepts and ideas are enmeshed in the developmental recommendations to provide a theoretical and researched validation for a management plan that moves away from rewards and punishments and focuses on meeting the needs of the students.

By investigating the basic needs of survival, belonging, fun, freedom, and power, the reader can develop strategies that will help students self-regulate and take responsibility for their academics and actions.

Scenarios are used to provide practice with classroom situations by offering possible analysis, corrective measures, and preventive measures. A theory into practice approach helps illustrate how the concepts work in an actual situation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475805529
Publisher:	R L Education
Publication date:	10/10/2013
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	177
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Suzanne G.Houff is a Professor of Education andchair in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.Sheteaches pre-service educatorsin the areas ofcurriculum and instruction, classroom management, and educational research.Prior to moving into higher education, she worked as both an elementary and middle school level classroom teacher and as a library media specialist.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part I. Getting Started
Chapter 1: What you believe
Chapter 2: Learning to change behavior
Behavior Theory
Cognitive Theory
Affective Theory
Social Theory
Ecological Theory
Brain-based theory

Part II. Meeting Student Needs
Chapter 3: Survival
Situation Analysis
Nourishment
Shelter
Safety
Safety through procedures
Bullying
Theory into Practice

Chapter 4: Belonging
Situation Analysis
Knowing your students
Developing Cooperation
Class Meetings
Theory into Practice

Chapter 5: Fun
Situation Analysis
Engaging Students
Theory into Practice

Chapter 6: Freedom
Situation Analysis
Making Choices
Accepting Responsibility
Accountability
Theory into Action

Chapter 7: Power
Situation Analysis
Power through quality instruction
Power through self-discipline
Theory into Practice

Chapter 8: Meeting special needs

Chapter 9: Special Topics: FAQ

Part III. Establishing Goals
Chapter 10: Prevent-Analyze-Correct
Book Tug
Clear Your Desk
Ipod plunder
Rules, rules, and more rules
Seeing Blood
Simple Machines
That’s not funny
Wrong finger

Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix A: Survival
Appendix B: Belonging
Appendix C: Fun
Appendix D: Freedom
Appendix E: Power
Appendix F: Management goals
Appendix G: Supporting the needs

Editorial Reviews

I am so pleased to be able to endorse Suzanne Houff's book,Managing the Classroom Environment: Meeting the Needs of the Student, second edition. In it she provides a very clear explanation of the five basic needs and anunderstanding of why people, including students, do what they do aspromoted by Dr. William Glasser's Choice Theory psychology. Withthis understanding, teachers are lead to no longer focus on theproblem behavior but rather to look at the underlying need that iscreating the behavior. Dr. Houff provides practical techniques andstrategies that are effective in creating a need-satisfyingenvironment in the classroom for both students and teachers, thusreducing the need for classroom discipline. When teachers read,study and implement the ideas in Managing the Classroom Environment,they will experience the joy of teaching, while inspiring the joy oflearning in their students.

Kim Olver

Dr. Houff presents a clear overview of current literature regarding classroom management. Moving from an older model of reactive, consequence-based approach to a proactive stance, she helps both novice teachers searching for strategies as they enter the field, as well as experienced educators searching for more effective ways to build rapport with students. The scenarios and cases presented throughout the text provide opportunities to connect educational theories to the realities of daily work with children in schools. Teachers searching for ways to build cohesive classroom communities and honor the students who comprise these communities will find this book a welcome resource.

Dr. Adria Hoffman

Managing the Classroom Environment offers teachers clear, practical strategies to an effective management program that encourages student responsibility and promotes student-learning.

Kavatus Newell

As a formal middle level administrator, I highly endorse Dr. Houff's book on classroom management because it promotes prevention first and intervention only if necessary.The solid research component lays a strong foundation to assist educators in designing a classroom or school-wide behavioral system that creates a safe, productive and nurturing learning environment.

Wendy Dzurick