About The Author.

Acknowledgments.

PART 1 Assessing Where We Are and Making Sense of the Inner Workings of the Classroom.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Transformative Classroom Management.

Chapter 2 Classifying Approaches to Classroom Management and Moving Up the Teaching Style Continuum.

PART 2 Exploring the Nature of Classroom Dynamics and Student Motivation.

Chapter 3 Exploring the Fundamental Components of the Classroom Environment.

Chapter 4 Promoting Clear and Shared Classroom Expectations.

The Cornerstone of the Effective Classroom.

Chapter 5 Effective Technical Management.

Promoting a Culture of Listening, Respect, and Efficiency in the Classroom.

Chapter 6 Examining Motivational Strategies.

What Makes Your Students Care?

Chapter 7 Promoting a Success Psychology in Students.

PART 3 Developing a Functional Democratic Classroom Society.

Chapter 8 Creating Collective Classroom Bonds with a Social Contract.

Chapter 9 Developing Logical and Related Consequences Within the Social Contract—and Why to Avoid the Use of Punishments.

Chapter 10 Implementing the Social Contract and Promoting Student Responsibility.

PART 4 Good Teaching Practices Lead to Good Management.

Chapter 11 Transformative Classroom Instruction and the Pedagogy-Management Connection.

Chapter 12 Effectively Managing the Cooperative Classroom.

PART 5 Remediation without Coercion.

Chapter 13 A Win-Win Approach to Conflict Resolution and Potential Power Struggles.

Chapter 14 Changing the Negative Identity Pattern and Succeeding with More Challenging Student Behavior.

PART 6 Adopting a Transformative Mind-Set.

Chapter 15 The Transformative Classroom.

Implementing a 1-Style Approach and Creating a Classroom Community.

Chapter 16 The Transformative Mind-Set and Making Your Thinking an Ally.

Appendix A: Questions and Answers on Transformative Classroom Management.

Appendix B: Sound Versus Faulty assumptions.

Appendix C: Examining the ‘‘It Works’’ Fallacy.

Appendix D: Examining the Use of the Phrase the ‘‘Real World of School’’.

Appendix E: Common Sources of Classroom Drama.

Appendix F: Transform Your School: A Schoolwide Student Discipline, Motivation, Character Building, and Peer Mediation Program.

Appendix G: Classroom Management and Student Achievement.

Index.