Preventing Disruptive Behavior in Colleges: A Campus and Classroom Management Handbook for Higher Education
New professors hired, especially adjuncts, have little experience with classroom management, getting the material across well, and handling large, budget-cut classes. However, I can now use this book at department meetings about teaching techniques and class problems. It is easy to read front to back, or as a comprehensive guide for particular problems, as I used Spock when I had an infant. I can't think of a disruptive behavior not included . Especially useful: miscalls vs. real disruptive behaviors; creating an effective syllabus; handling all kinds of class/campus disruptions. After teaching for thirty years, and being a distinguished teaching professor, I still find myriad ways here to save precious class time from disruptive behavior and become an even more effective professor and chair. (Rosalyn Baxandall, distinguished teaching professor and chair, American Studies/Media and Communications Department, Old Westbury College, State Un)The best time to fix problems is before they arise. Intended for chairs, deans, counselors, adjuncts, and professors, this eminently practical book—easy-to-use as a handbook reference for specific problems—will be an invaluable resource for trouble-free college teaching and the prevention/handling of a wide spectrum of college disruptive behaviors. (Daniel J. Wiener, professor, Counseling and Family Therapy Department, Central Connecticut State University)This book fills a much-needed gap in preparation for college teaching; a marvelous compendium of disruptive behaviors together with a deeply insightful analysis of their causes. But more to the point, strategies for dealing compassionately and effectively with each one, and training exercises and a checklist making for an extremely useful handbook for those who have found themselves at a loss for what to do when their students begin to 'act up.' I highly recommend this work to adjuncts especially and to professors as well. (Ira Altman, adjunct professor, Iona College, Purchase College, Suffolk County Community College, State University of New York)There is a need for this sort of book; after all, many of us have been blindsided in the classroom by egregious behavior, and few college teachers have any training in discipline (or even in pedagogy) in graduate school....This book might be of value to a beginning college teacher, eager to prevent certain problems before even stepping into a classroom....a book of this sort could be invaluable to both experienced and new teachers.(Teaching Theology and Religion)