Di Giulio Robert C.

Now in its third edition, this clear and concise guide by expert educator, administrator, and psychologist Robert DiGiulio is a must for student teachers, beginning teachers, and veteran teachers who want to improve their practice. Providing creative ideas, materials, checklists, models, tools, and sample dialogues illustrating applications, this updated edition focuses in on core theories of child and adolescent development, emotional intelligence, and differentiated approaches to instruction and management in the classroom. A terrific companion volume to the author's Great Teaching: What Matters Most in Helping Students Succeed.

Now in its third edition, this clear and concise guide by expert educator, administrator, and psychologist Robert DiGiulio is a must for student teachers, beginning teachers, and veteran teachers who want to improve their practice. Providing creative ideas, materials, checklists, models, tools, and sample dialogues illustrating applications, this updated edition focuses in on core theories of child and adolescent development, emotional intelligence, and differentiated approaches to instruction and management in the classroom. A terrific companion volume to the author's Great Teaching: What Matters Most in Helping Students Succeed.

A Compass for the Classroom provides guidance, support, and inspiration. The book presents a new model of reflection using the metaphor of a compass, with directional points of humility, honesty, love, and faith. It is a guide to finding one's way in life by always considering the four points in our decisions and views. The book provides teachers with something to feed the spirit to succeed in the somewhat selfless struggle that educators take on to help students learn and thrive. It includes examples of the compass points in action in classrooms, as well as assessment checklists for teachers and students.

A Compass for the Classroom provides guidance, support, and inspiration. The book presents a new model of reflection using the metaphor of a compass, with directional points of humility, honesty, love, and faith. It is a guide to finding one's way in life by always considering the four points in our decisions and views. The book provides teachers with something to feed the spirit to succeed in the somewhat selfless struggle that educators take on to help students learn and thrive. It includes examples of the compass points in action in classrooms, as well as assessment checklists for teachers and students.

Robert C DiGiulio's new book reinforces the essential skills of teaching that lie outside the exclusively direct-instruction, skills-based methods. Though he does discuss the importance of skills-based methods, his true focus in this work is on the teaching behaviours that research has shown. The book includes self-assessment checklist similar to those the author employed in his successful Positive Classroom Management, (Corwin Press 1999) which focus on timesaving by distilling a teacher's workload down to the critical, most effective approaches to classroom instruction. The book also employs an 8-step framework to define good teaching skills (Preparation, Attention, Clarity, Feedback, Monitoring, Questioning, Summarizing, and Reflection).

Educate, Medicate, or Litigate? tackles an issue that is increasingly taking the fore in school safety issues: intervention. Until now, the response to antisocial behaviour in schools has been generally reactive in nature due to the fact that few contemporary `preventative' measures actually prevent anything. While medical and legal recourses cannot be eschewed, after the tragedy at Columbine and other much-publicized school shootings across the country, it is all too clear that these reactive measures are much too little, too late - effective violence prevention is critical. This book examines bullying, subversive behaviour, and other negative psychosocial behaviours from their roots to their eventual eruptions, analyzes common myths about school violence and its origins, and, based on research and empirical knowledge, prescribes best practices, administrative action that will help schools prevent larger and more violent incidents from occurring.