Relationship-Driven Classroom Management

Strategies That Promote Student Motivation

Positive teacher-student relationships are an important factor in increasing student achievement and motivation as well as decreasing  a student's risk of dropping out, substance abuse, bullying, and violence.  Learn how to proactively and positively manage your classroom and students and build on their inherent strengths and talents.

Relationship-Driven Classroom Management is the only book to combine resiliency, classroom management, and discipline into one user-friendly format suitable for all teachers.  The chapter material covers both preventive strategies and reactive strategies, including:  

• Attributes of relationship-driven teachers
• Strengthening relationships with students
• Teaching and modeling social-emotional skills
• Cultivating student responsibility
• Creating and implementing effective consequences
• Building relationships with difficult and resistant students