Overview

When teachers are looking for ways to make their jobs more rewarding and stress-free, here's a resource that will help them think "outside the box" of traditional practices.

Use of this kit in smaller groups offers participants the opportunity to learn and apply new ideas on classroom management and helps teachers understand how to solve most classroom management problems through strategies that support a self-governing classroom and democratic values.

The first folder of the eight-folder series provides teachers with a rationale for and clear instructions on forming a successful study group. The remaining folders are titled

• Self-Management: Teacher as Self-Knowing Model;
• Developing a Classroom Management Repertoire;
• Working Proactively with Conflict, Stress, and Resistance;
• Working Constructively with Anger;
• Organizing for Robust Instruction;
• Self-Governance: Responsible Citizenship in the Classroom; and
• Managing the Class by Managing the Thinking Process.

(ASCD Professional Inquiry Kit, 1998) Eight activity folders and a videotape.