Beyond control
Subtitle: heart-centered classroom climate and discipline
By: Alan Bandstra
Publisher: Dordt College Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sioux Center, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781940567129
Subjects: Classroom management; Conduct of life; Students; Teacher effectiveness; Classroom discipline; Christianity; Attitudes; Classroom environment; Behavior modification
Description: Classroom discipline problems may be reduced through behavior management, but what can be done about the factors that drive misbehavior? Weeds like negativity, apathy, and unkindness are too slippery to be uprooted through consequences or incentive plans alone. A heart-centered classroom climate aims beyond exterminating the bad by striving to grow something more positive in its place. Combining insights from motivational theory, Scripture, and 25 years of classroom experience, Bandstra provides encouragement and advice to teachers who struggle with the attitudes of wayward children. Despite the serious nature of this topic, his narrative style makes the book easy to follow and fun to read.--from Amazon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Classroom climate and the Christian teacher : The climate connection ; Control issues ; Outlook overhauls; title: Heart-centered teaching : Getting personal ; Cultivating community ; Confronting the beasts; title: Heart-centered discipline : Guiding with grace ; Stubborn patience ; Calm authority ; One to one ; Uprooting unkindness ; Taming the elephant ; Hope and a future.