Faulty Assumptions

Taking Custody of Your Classroom

By (author) William Miller Dean of University Libraries, Florida Atlantic University and co-editor of

Publication date:

14 March 2013

Length of book:

182 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

Dimensions:

241x167mm
7x10"

ISBN-13: 9781610486842

Why do some students thumb their nose at a good education, disrupt everyone’s day at every turn, and pretty much subject themselves to a lifetime of compromise and want? This unique book is based on a decade of hands on experience and research dealing with thousands of students in regular education, K-12, and in an alternative school setting. It exposes the accepted and timeworn theories on classroom management, which are based on Faulty Assumptions, that rarely work and oftentimes make the situation worse. Miller’s common sense principles for classroom leadership were described by one college professor as “The Heart of Teaching.” This entertaining but thought provoking book provides the practical answers struggling teachers have been searching for to bring order to their classrooms so meaningful learning can take place. The precepts advocated for a smooth running classroom, which translate to a smooth running school, are applicable for all teachers, novice and veteran, with any student, regardless of age. Quite simply, it’s designed to educate the educated. This is the “How To” book taken from the real world of the classroom.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 - Attention Span of a Gnat
Chapter 2 - Your Objective Is What?
Chapter 3 - So You Know Your Student
Chapter 4 - Know Who You’re Talking To
Chapter 5 - Giving and Getting 100%
Chapter 6 - Never Box Yourself In
Chapter 7 - How to Find the Right Approach
Chapter 8 - What Are You Trying to Accomplish?
Chapter 9 - Who’s Listening?
Chapter 10 - What’s It Going to Take?
Chapter 11 – Are You Positive?
Chapter 12 – What Do They Want?
Chapter 13 - You, Them, Together
Chapter 14 - The Direct Approach
Chapter 15 - Picture This
Chapter 16 - Step to the Back
Chapter 17 - Let’s Start at the End
Chapter 18 - And in This Corner
Chapter 19 - You’re Going to What
Chapter 20 - What You’re Up Against
Chapter 21 - Turn Down the Volume
Chapter 22 - The Uncompeteable
Chapter 23 - Why Me?
Chapter 24 - Additions and Distractions
Chapter 25 - The Parent Trap
Chapter 26 - A Bucket and a Shot Glass
Chapter 27 - You Deserve a Break Today
Chapter 28 - Push, Shove, or Pull…
Chapter 29- Outrunning a Tornado
Chapter 30 - Thanks for the Memory
Chapter 31 – A Failure to Communicate
Chapter 32 - The Tomorrow Gambit
Chapter 33 - The Future Is Now
Chapter 34 - Cut the Bull…
Chapter 35 – United We Stand
Chapter 36 – Alternative Schools

Appendix 1 – In a Nutshell…
Appendix 2 - Your Life, Your Call…

In 22 years of public education, I have never found a book that gives better anecdotal evidence of classroom management than this. You can immediately use the knowledge in this book! A must-read for all new teachers. We have adopted this book in our district as part of the induction program.