Positive Learning Environments: Creating and Maintaining Productive Classrooms introduces the key concepts you need to know to create and maintain your classroom as a positive learning environment. It begins by introducing four essential components that create a positive and productive learning environment. These positive practices help you establish classrooms that recognise and encourage appropriate behaviours while reducing the probability of inappropriate behaviours. It then examines the four main groups of evidence-based approaches to managing student behaviour: behavioural, cognitive behavioural, psychoeducational and social justice approaches. For each it discusses the theories that inform them, their practical applications for fostering appropriate behaviours and also when and how to use them to proactively intervene. By the end you are empowered to develop your individualised classroom management plan: one that suits your own theoretical beliefs, professional philosophy and teaching style.
1. Behaviour and its origins
2. Key concepts in classroom management
3. Classroom climate: communication and relationships
4. Classroom culture: rules, procedures, and the way we do things
5. Classroom physical environment
6. Classroom instructional practice
7. Behavioural approaches
8. Cognitive behavioural approaches
9. Psychoeducational approaches
10. Social justice approaches
11 Blended approaches
12. Planning for a positive learning environment
Appendix: Examples of BMP and other plans
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John De Nobile
John De Nobile is Senior Lecturer in Education and Coordinator of the primary teacher education program in the Department of Educational Studies at Macquarie University. He has also worked in schools in a range of roles, where his experiences included working with many students with significant behavioural problems, and with their teachers and families, to achieve positive academic and social outcomes. His current research interests include the impacts of whole-school behaviour management systems on student behaviour and teacher wellbeing.
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NEW Chapter 1 'Behaviour and its origins' & Chapter 2 'Key concepts in classroom management'
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NEW appendix of Examples of behaviour management plans (BMP) and other improvement plans (BIP)
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NEW expanded emphasis on key PLE topics such as trauma-informed practice, intervention strategies and correction, and bullying and cyberbullying.
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