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 Great approach to classroom discipline August 6, 2008
This book was recommended to me by a colleague. "Teaching . . . " empowers you to make decisions that are best for you and your students. The recommendations by the authors show how being in a "thinking state" allows you to offer choices to help students make good decisions regarding their behavior. I have been frustrated and exhausted trying to devise consequences which are appropriate. This method puts it back in the student's lap to develop the appropriate behavior. Read it once to get the overall ideas, then read it again to further your understanding.
Teaching with Love and Logic August 2, 2008
A full comprehensive guide to Love and Logic. It provides numerous examples of classroom situations and how to implement the 9 essential skills of Love and Logic.
 Useful Book July 29, 2008
I found the first few chapters of this book very useful for my teaching practice but I never finished it. The truth is it started to get too indirect with the illustrations - the paedagogical links were not clear. And generally the book slowed up as it progressed from easy reading to something else.
Teaching with Love and Logic July 15, 2008
I have found this classroom behavior management to be very befeficial and extremely logical for today's teachers. We need all the help we can get, and this system helps our students even more.
 Just a little at a time... July 8, 2008
I really enjoy the L&L model for classroom management. However, the priciples can seem overwhelming if you try to do them all at once. Follow the writers' advice and just try implementing them one at a time. Just implementing two of the strategies has made my classroom management much better.
Some reviewers mentioned that they found the techniques in L&L to be cold and manipulative. There definitely is some "tough love" in here, and if you try to apply these techniques without TRUE empathy, that is, if you really don't care about the students, you could come off as sarcastic and condescending. Even I couldn't pull off a couple of the things they suggest, like being really sad for a student who's talking in class. I have to admit, I'm usually not feeling sad for a student at that moment... more like really ticked. But the basic ideas of remaining calm, never yelling, and forming quality relationships with your students are strong. Those who think these methods are cold obviously missed all the stuff about how important it is to care about your students and be interested in their lives. As the authors say, kids behave for teachers they love. All the stuff that seems cold and manipulative to you won't seem that way if you're surrounding them with love the rest of the time.
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