Description
School discipline has been, continues to be, and hopefully will not continue to be the number one problem and duty of the school principal and his or her teaching faculty. "A Learning Approach to School Discipline: Problem Solving Instead of Punishing" provides administrators and teachers with the rationale and proven methods for addressing student behavioral problems. Teaching students to problem solve, improve decisions, and know that their actions can produce positive outcomes results in student empowerment and increased social skill.
Gary E. Martin began (gary.martin@nau.edu) his career in working with school-aged children as a Child Care worker and supervisor in two private residential psychiatric treatment centers. He moved into public education as a high school teacher and vice principal, junior high school principal, and principal of an alternative junior-senior high school for seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership Department at Northern Arizona University. He remains very involved with public schools in training teachers for principal certification and conducting workshops on student problem solving.
Angus J. MacNeil (amacneil@uh.edu) is an Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Houston. A former school principal and administrator he teachers courses in the master's and doctoral programs. He served twenty-five years in the public schools of Nova Scotia, twenty-one of these as a school administrator. He was a principal in five schools including middle schools and rural high schools and two large urban high schools. His major research interest is the principalship and the relationships principals need to improve student learning and achievement.
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