Conscious Classroom Management by Rick Smith

Conscious Classroom Management by Rick Smith

This] book takes a magnifying glass to great teaching, revealing the key assumptions that allow teachers to organize their teaching and discipline students in ways that invite student cooperation.
--From the Foreword by Spence Rogers, Founder and Director
Peak Learning Systems

Rick Smith peeks behind the invisible veil of good teaching to discover numerous enlightening classical concepts and techniques that all teachers can use to become better at their craft.
--Rick Curwin
Author, Discipline with Dignity

Rick Smith has the power to engage any learner. His deep understanding of how we learn, his highly nuanced, empathetic humor, and his gentle regard for fellow learners of any age combine to provide the reader with ′aha after aha.′
--Bea Warner, Staff Development Director
Escondido, CA

Make your job easier Find out what really works for effective classroom management and reap the benefits of engaged and productive students

Conscious Classroom Management is a delightfully rich text that incorporates meaningful stories, insights, humor, and invaluable strategies for what really works in the classroom. And while classroom management is the primary factor behind how successful teachers can achieve sustained student learning, this wonderful text also addresses the human elements of teaching, focusing on three primary subjects: the students, the teacher, and the relationship between the two.

Comprehensive and practical, Conscious Classroom Management helps teachers to:

• Eliminate power struggles with your most challenging students
• Discover how holding your ground can help students cooperate
• Uncover your teacher presence while reducing stress
• Create lessons that help students remain focused, eager, and willing to learn
• Appreciate your craft at a deeper level
• Think ahead and prepare to teach
• Energize and invigorate how you mentor and train other teachers

For the novice, first-year teacher to the veteran, classroom-tested teacher, classroom management is the most critical factor for sustained student learning. And eliminating the cycle of student misbehavior is the cornerstone for effective classroom management.

This reference transcends every level of preparation and provides new and experienced teachers with the practical and comprehensive strategies necessary to get the most out of every student. Written in an easy-to-read and humorous, conversational style, this resource is indispensable for new teacher induction or regular staff development.

Rick Smith grew up on the lower East Side of NYC before the family moved to Bucks County, Pa. There was also a year or so in Paris. The writing began in high school, poems inspired by William Blake and Carl Sandburg. His English teacher at Solebury School was Michael Casey who would include Yeats, William Burroughs and rock writers Leiber and Stoller in the same lesson plan. Smith went on to study with Anthony Hecht at Bard College where Hart Crane's The Bridge made a big impact. At the same time, music began to take an important role. With no formal training (one lesson from Chevy Chase, one from James Cotton), Smith learned blues harmonica and went to work on the streets of Greenwich Village, playing for tips or meals, rubbing shoulders with youngsters like Cass Elliott, Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Steve Stills and the guys in The Lovin' Spoonful. Dylan actually had to borrow Smith's harmonica for an impromptu set at Bard one night. He delivered a car to California in 1965 and founded The City Lights late that year. He starved on the Sunset strip, selling candy door to door by day, playing for a piece of the door or for free at clubs like the Sea Witch, The Galaxy, Bido Lito's and The Whiskey. The band actually opened for Smokey Robinson and The Miracles at the Cheetah in Venice Beach, in 1967. In the mid 1970's, Smith joined Dan Ilves to co-edit the literary journal Stonecloud. His interview with Tom Waits in issue #7 made it a sought after collector's item. In 1976, he played on the soundtrack of the Oscar nominated film, Days of Heaven. In 1981, he and collaborator John Lyon wrote and recorded Hand To Mouth, a well-reviewed LP of originals which got substantial air-play. He went on to write and record with Mindless, Go Figure, The Hangan Brothers and The Mescal Sheiks. Smith continues to perform, write and record with The Sheiks and with Music Formula; new releases from both bands are in the works. Poems have appeared widely in journals like New Letters, The Wormwood Review, South Bay Magazine, The Lummox Journal, Rattle and Spillway... A string of day jobs evolved, unpredictably, to a late career as a clinical psychologist. He spent several years on the internationally acclaimed neurological service at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center. He is now in private practice in Rancho Cucamonga, Ca. where he lives with his wife and son.

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ISBN 13	9780979635502
ISBN 10	0979635500
Title	Conscious Classroom Management
Author	Rick Smith
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Corwin Publishers
Year published	2004-09-01
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.