Are your students interested in how to understand and manage the daily dynamics of the classroom environment? Do you want to offer your students practical, concrete, realistic, field-tested action ideas to use in their own classrooms? Does your course cover cooperative learning, faculty collaboration, school restructuring, and educational reform? If so, look to Group Processes in the Classroom, Eighth Edition. For 30 years this classic text has provided pre- and in-service teachers with an understanding of group processes in the classroom. Now in its eighth edition, the text combines social-psychological theory and research with recent, teacher-created action ideas – the tested, down-to-earth practices of a generation of K-12 teachers – to show students how they can successfully apply well-researched group-process procedures in their own classrooms and schools. Group Processes in the Classroom, Eighth Edition is the only comprehensive text available on the social psychology of teaching and learning.

Group Processes in the Classroom

Education & Teaching

Schmuck, Richard A.

Schmuck, Patricia

Schools & Teaching

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Reflection is the act of thinking about one's own behaviors in the past, present, or future. Though many associate "reflection" with "silence," some social psychologists refer to the importance of reflection as a kind of "solitary dialogue." Educators who do not think about the future cannot contemplate the results of their actions. Educators who do not think about the past cannot prepare themselves for change. Educators who do not think about the present cannot understand what to do next. Without solitary dialogue, educators do not know what they truly value. Reflective practice and action research can work together to serve as a source for developing professionalism, team problem solving skills, and democratic relationships in the school community. This hands-on book lays the groundwork for developing and initiating such reflective practices and action research in the classroom. With this book, teachers and administrators find an invaluable source of practical ideas as they engage in the professional inquiry of reflective practice. By providing various scenarios, this key resource introduces educators to the importance of action research, the fundamentals of how it works, and how it can positively affect classroom and school environments. . Educators, curriculum specialists, school counselors, psychologists, administrators, parents, and students. A Skylight Professional Book.

Practical Action Research for Change

Allyn&Bacon

William C. Brown

Group processes in the classroom

Business & Money

Education & Reference

W.C. Brown

How can teachers work with their students more effectively? How can administrators and teachers collaboratively manage schools smoothly? First, they need to have a clear understanding of how students, teachers, and administrators function in groups and a clear plan for how to improve these group dynamics. In this book, recent real-life examples show how different group-process theories can be applied successfully to your own classroom and school, whether it's in inner-city Los Angeles, suburban Chicago, or rural Maine. Authors Richard and Patricia Schmuck offer many useful suggestions, and place special emphasis on how interpersonal relationships at school are deeply connected to how students feel about school and to what they learn. With solid theory, down-to-earth applications, and current topics such as cooperative learning and multiage classes, you'll find this book a valuable and practical addition to your professional library.

William C Brown Pub

The authors of this volume visited 25 small school districts in the US to meet, observe and interview students, teachers, principals and administrators. Here they present research that connects with reality. Through their fascinating description of the physical and educational landscape, the authors capture life in nonurban schools `as it is′, and present information that is brutally honest. They provide the beginnings of a road map to help small, nonurban districts and communities begin their own journey on the road to better schools.

Small Districts, Big Problems: Making School Everybody′s House

Schmuck, Patricia A.

Corwin

Travelling across America, the authors visited 25 small school districts in 21 states to meet, observe, and interview students, teachers, principals and administrators. Here the authors present research that connects with reality. Through their fascinating description of the physical and educational landscape, the authors capture life in nonurban schools 'as it is', and present information that's brutally honest. In this useful book, the authors provide the beginnings of a road map to help small, nonurban districts and communities begin their own journey on the road to better schools.

Small Districts, Big Problems: Making School Everybody′s House (Wiley Series in Probability and)

A Humanistic Psychology of Education: Making the School Everybody's House

Mayfield Pub.Co

A humanistic psychology of education;: Making the school everybody's house

National Press Books

For educators wishing to bring about constructive organizational change in every level of the educational enterprise, this work is a must! This comprehensive book was designed as a guide for institutional reform and restructuring, site-based management, staff development, strategic planning, team building, and "total quality" programs. Believing that good organization provides the soil from which good teaching can grow, the authors address any educator who seeks to lift the morale and achievement levels of students through more humane, consistent, and effective management and instruction.

The Handbook of Organization Development in Schools and Colleges

Runkel, Philip J.

Waveland Pr Inc.

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