The Caring Classroom focuses on building positive teacher-student relationships that support effective classroom management and instruction. The iconic writer Maya Angelou has said "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." This is true in education as well as it is in life. The way you treat your students will stick with them longer than any content you cover in a classroom lesson. Classroom management and positive teacher-student relationships are essential components in today's classrooms. Honing your skills in these areas is important if you want your classroom to be a place students are able to learn. Many of our students don't come to our classrooms knowing how to behave appropriately. It's our job to teach them. All teachers need to know how to effectively manage their classrooms, and the ability to do that while building and maintaining positive teacher-student relationships is essential. The Caring Classroom uses a variety of examples to demonstrate how to create a caring classroom climate, using narratives from teachers and from educational experts. Also, it shows how the components of a caring classroom will positively affect you and your students. A caring classroom is obtainable for all teachers. By introducing the components discussed in this book into your classroom, you will be able to improve your students' learning, lessen student misbehaviour, and create positive relationships with your students.

Describes how to create an effective learning environment in which students share common interests and goals.

"Ruth Charney gives teachers help on things that really matter. She wants children to learn how to care for themselves, their fellow students, their environment, and their work. Her book is loaded with practical wisdom. Using Charney's positive approach to classroom management will make the whole school day go better." - Nel Noddings, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, and author of Caring This definitive work about classroom management will show teachers how to turn their vision of respectful, friendly, academically rigorous classrooms into reality. The new edition includes: More information on teaching middle-school students Additional strategies for helping children with challenging behavior Updated stories and examples from real classrooms. "Teaching Children to Care offers educators a practical guide to one of the most effective social and emotional learning programs I know of. The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning—a pioneering program every teacher should know about." - Daniel Goleman, Author of Emotional Intelligence "I spent one whole summer reading Teaching Children to Care. It was like a rebirth for me. This book helped direct my professional development. After reading it, I had a path to follow. I now look forward to rereading this book each August to refresh and reinforce my ability to effectively manage a social curriculum in my classroom." - Gail Zimmerman, second-grade teacher, Jackson Mann Elementary School, Boston, MA

This practitioner-focused guide to creating identity-safe classrooms presents four categories of core instructional practices: Child-centered teaching ; Classroom relationships ; Caring environments ; Cultivating diversity. The book presents a set of strategies that can be implemented immediately by teachers. It includes a wealth of vignettes taken from identity-safe classrooms as well as reflective exercises that can be completed by individual teachers or teacher teams.

This much-needed volume presents current thinking about effective social and emotional education with young children. Leading national experts describe the range of programs and perspectives that elementary teachers and school specialists can use to promote social-emotional learning. They provide concrete strategies and curricular-based programs that educators can rapidly implement or integrate into school life in and outside the classroom. This completely practical guide emphasizes techniques, strategies, and curricular approaches that will help teachers learn what to do and how to do it. It is a natural choice for staff development workshops.

This quirky tale teaches young readers the difference between nice teasing and mean teasing. Laughing at someone (mean teasing) has a hurtful bite, but laughing with someone (nice teasing) is alright when it's not done out of spite.