Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prevention as the foundation for managing a classroom: An introduction -- Creating a positive classroom environment -- Structure and organization for effective classroom management / Dennis Cavitt & T. Rowand Robinson -- Preventing problem behavior through effective teaching / Mark D. Samudre & R. Allan Allday -- Conducting meetings in the classroom -- Responding to student misbehavior / Michael E. Rozalski -- Specific prevention and intervention techniques -- Providing students with skills to independently make wise behavioral choices -- Understanding and fostering teacher-student relationships to prevent behavior problems / Christopher Van Loan & Daniel Poling -- Putting it all together.

"Creating Positive Elementary Classrooms includes straightforward, feasible, and evidenced-based strategies designed to prevent behavior problems in K-5 classrooms. With an exclusive classroom focus, this practitioner-friendly book encourages teachers to be proactive in classroom management and guides them through the process of setting up their classrooms to maximize learning while focusing on prevention. Its emphasis on behavior problems before they occur enables teachers to run their classrooms more efficiently and experience less frustration, while also increasing student learning. A well-organized, systematic, and predictable teaching environment helps to prevent behaviors, and this book presents ways to achieve this type of classroom environment. Using real-life classroom scenarios, this guide equips teachers with management techniques that break the common cycle of frustration, aggression, rejection, and hostility, so they can create positive elementary classrooms"-- Provided by publisher.