Children describe many of the things they learn and do at their school which uses the methods developed by Maria Montessori.

Charting the progress of twelve children in a real Texas classroom, educator Donna Goertz shows how positive change can occur given the proper environment. In each case she describes a child's transformation from destructive troublemaker to responsible citizen of the classroom community. Readers will learn how to apply Montessori methods to virtually any early elementary environment.

Children in a classroom use a peace rose as a means to communicate with each other. They settle disagreements and call attention to hurtful behavior. Some children understand that they can resolve their differences even when the rose is not present.

This inspiring, practical and highly usable activity book shows how to create peaceful, productive classrooms from the first day of school. Teach students respect, acceptance and conflict resolution skills while also improving writing and language skills-important with today's emphasis on academics and accountability. The Peaceful Classroom in Action will show you how to: [ create a peaceful classroom from the first day of school [ build a climate of respect [ help kids resolve conflicts [ maintain an atmosphere of peacefulness throughout the year [ teach all your students, even your most difficult, how to be peacemakers [ improve your students' writing ability as you teach peacemaking concepts [ integrate literature and peacemaking [ build collaboration across the curriculum [ implement effective techniques for dealing with challenging students These simple peacemaking skills will enhance your students emotional competence and make classrooms everywhere caring and inviting places. (A companion book to Learning the Skills of Peacemaking by Naomi Drew) Grades K-6.

The Peaceable Classroom first defines a pedagogy of nonviolence and then analyzes certain contemporary approaches to rhetoric and literary studies in light of nonviolent theory.

Grade level: k, t.