A paper by Christine Cheney, titled "Preventive Discipline through Effective Classroom Management," introduces the issue of preventive discipline and behavior management practices. Following the reprinted paper, 149 citations from the ECER (Exceptional Child Education Resources) database and the ERIC (Educational Resources Information…

Strategies for principals to increase their assistant principals' involvement in classroom management and to fulfill their positions as instructional leaders are described in this bulletin. Strategies include: (1) introduction, implementation, and reinforcement of classroom management skills; (2) development of partnerships with teachers; (3)…

Written for parents and other caregivers, this handbook describes techniques and strategies to use to effectively change children's behavior when it is necessary to do so. The first three sections focus on the need for caregivers to understand themselves, their tolerance levels, preferences, and needs in order to clarify their strengths and…

An academic discipline is created and embodied in discourse, which functions on two dimensions: the global, disciplinary level suggested by T. Kuhn and others, and the local, institutional level, such as the workshop or laboratory where practitioners carry on the discipline's day-to-day business of research, teaching, and writing. The discipline…

As complaints about the lack of discipline in schools increase, more educators are turning to student conduct codes as one component of a discipline program. In setting up an effective conduct code, the top priority should be clear communication of rules. To ensure this, all relevant parties--administrators, teachers, parents, and students--should…

U.S. schools must today address problems of crime, violence, drugs, suicide, child abuse, and lack of discipline. Academic issues have recently been in the public spotlight, but the quality of a child's education can be severely affected if the child is not in a safe environment. Crime and violence are a pervasive problem in schools, affecting…

The key to the improvement of teacher education lies in the identification of a set of problems that legitimately can claim to be so generic and important that all who teach will be familiar with them. Such problems are what case studies portray. Case studies constitute the problemata of the professional curriculum. In the present state of…

An ethnographic study was conducted in an elementary school in order to understand the relationship between teacher behavior and the environments of classes identified by teachers as their "worst." First, research on teacher behaviors was reviewed to identify a set of factors identifiable with effective and ineffective teaching. Ten dimensions of…

Data are reported on the characteristics of private school teachers, including: gender, years of experience, teaching status, academic degrees, undergraduate majors, types and purposes of additional training, and teaching fields. The data are organized on the basis of selected school and teacher characteristics. The data are displayed in eight…

This paper presents a broad overview of information about delinquency, crime, and school discipline and violence in relation to U.S. youths. Part 1 compares U.S. and West Germany's crime rates for 1980-1985, while part 2 focuses on U.S. juvenile crime facts and on the contribution of the increasing number of U.S. family breakdowns to juvenile…

This 51-item bibliography offers a selection of writings on issues and problems related to classroom management and discipline. Most citations concern works written between 1972-1983. Intervention techniques in dealing with deviant behavior are highlighted along with discipline and control in the classroom. Articles on methods of behavior…

The final report describes the evolution and accomplishments of a project designed to identify factors associated with successful completion of education/training programs for mainstreamed mildly handicapped secondary students. Program outcomes were measured via examination of the student records, interviews, and recollections of special education…

The Parent Group Development Program was established to provide information and support for parents with developmental disabilities. Parent group activities focused on offering information about child development (through a guessing game in which behavior was matched to one of four age groups) and meal planning and budgeting (with a task that…

The extent to which instructional contact and student credit hours are related to a number of variables reflecting the equitability of faculty workload assignments was studied. Simultaneous multiple regression analyses were performed on the fall 1980 and fall 1981 course and personnel records of approximately 2,220 faculty at four selective public…

This practicum addressed the need to reduce the number of verbal altercations and consequent disciplinary actions occurring between detained youth and the child care staff at a maximum security juvenile detention center. Observations of verbal interaction between detainees and staff, pre-practicum testing, and staff's self-reports revealed poor…