Tools for Teaching: Discipline, Instruction, Motivation
Book Description In Tools for Teaching, Dr. Jones describes the skills by which exceptional teachers make the classroom a place of success and enjoyment for both themselves and their students. Tools for Teaching integrates the management of discipline, instruction and motivation into a system that allows you to reduce the stress of teaching by preventing most management headaches. Dr. Jones helps you reduce student disruptions, backtalk, helpless handraising and dawdling while helping you increase responsible behavior, motivation and independent learning. These skills are made accessable by practical, down-to-earth language and many examples and illustrations that provide the next best thing to attending one of Dr. Jones' workshops. From the Author Tools for Teaching is a training program between two covers. It describes the skills of classroom management in practical, down-to-earth terms that makes sense to practicing teachers.
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Fred Jones "tools for teaching"User Review - williwaw - Overstock.com
The book is very useful and is one of the most highly regarded for classroom management for all grade levels. Lots of examples of what to do and what not to do in a huge range of situations. Read full review
LibraryThing ReviewUser Review - maryoverton - LibraryThing
The educational guru I most admire. A behaviorist who is compassionate. His strategies can work wonders. "Good behavior management always has relationship building as its primary objective. You want ... Read full review