Cassetta, a teacher, school leader, and consultant, and Sawyer, a former middle school teacher and elementary guidance counselor and current professor of education, offer a social-emotional approach to classroom management. Rather than focusing on controlling students, they outline strategies to interpret behavior and choose an effective response, emphasizing moving from blame to constructive action by addressing questions related to classroom management and effective teaching. They cover teacher and student demographics and how to build positive teacher-student relationships, how to identify desired behavior based on social-emotional competencies, how to set boundaries and teach behavioral expectations through rules and procedures, why children misbehave and how to respond using a change-over-time approach, and how instruction can help students practice and reflect on behavior. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
