Your library is your classroom, and you are responsible for it no matter what's happening there. Ineffective classroom management can hamper or completely negate your efforts at creating a strong library program, and that's true whether you're a new school librarian just starting out or one with many years under your belt. This powerful resource…

This text takes a decision-making model approach to classroom management. It provides teachers with a very practical system to influence students to choose to behave productively and to strive for academic success. This widely used text presents an array of decision-making options that guide teachers in developing positive, pro-social classroom…

Schools remain one of the safest environments for children. However, in far too many schools, a lack of respect for the authority of teachers and other school employees, as well as for the rights of other students, is undermining the ability of schools to provide students with a quality education. Even in the best schools, employees often…

Provides teachers with a chance to select the "most severe discipline problems" from among a set of 10 illustrations. Points out the areas of tolerance and intolerance teachers' choices might reflect. (Author/RH)

Outlines how to carry out investigations of student fights. Includes recommendations and procedures for interrogating witnesses and possible offenders. (MD)

This description of the development of a discipline policy at the Downers Grove (Illinois) Public Library recounts discipline problems, the process of creating the policy, and its effects. The text of the rules of behavior and a sample page from the procedures manual, which provides practical guidelines for enforcement, are included. (MES)

Cites incidents of assaults against teachers and offers some safe-school tips, a plan that helps cut crime, and advice to school executives to provide support and consolation to battered teachers. (MLF)

Describes use of a checklist, giving immediate feedback on specific items, to control individual behavior problems of students. (LD)

Offers suggestions about how principals can avoid problems with substitute teachers, including location, selection, and preparation of subs; provision of appropriate information and materials; and evaluation. (WD)

Maintains that getting tougher with disruptive youth does not get at the causes of their problems. Urqes administrators to develop alternative programs as the most effective and humane approach to these students. (Author/JM)

In-service programs can help teachers learn to deal more effectively with classroom discipline problems. (Author/MLF)

Two reasons that principals have not been effective as instructional leaders are outlined from a survey of Ohio school principals. Time spent on student discipline problems and resistance from faculty to new ideas on instructional improvement were the major problems listed by the principals in the survey. (MD)

At a Florida high school, students who break school rules face predetermined consequences that are ascending in severity. The success of the system is contingent on staff training, communication, recordkeeping, administrative support, and evaluation. (MLF)

Discusses ways that teachers cause discipline problems and offers suggestions for eliminating such problems. (FL)

Describes the qualities of a good disciplinary policy. (JM)