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Classroom Management:
Facilitating Teaching and Learning

Edited by Myint Swe Khine, A. Lourdusamy,
Quek Choon Lang & Angela F. L. Wong

Classroom management is a key part of the teacher's overall leadership role and it cannot be separated from the other aspects of teaching. Be it planning a lesson, practicing reward and punishment, developing class activities, engaging the students in student-centred approaches, attending to student motivation, or implementing different instructional tasks, they all demand appropriate behaviour befitting of the occasion and environment on the part of the students. All these elements within the perspectives of classroom management point towards building a positive learning environment to engage the students in learning, so as to minimize behavioural problems and disruptions in lessons. This book attempts to address some of the issues related to classroom management and the facilitation of teaching and learning. The book is divided into the following four parts: Learning Environment, Characteristics of Effective Teachers, Organising and Managing Instruction and Coping with Classroom Challenges. Comprising a total of 12 chapters, the text is structured such that each chapter focuses on a different aspect of teaching and classroom management.

Comments from Reviewers

This book is about the art of classroom management. It is an art done differenly in Singaporean and Asian schools, as well it should be - given the complex and different cultural tools, histories, pathways and futures of these students.

Professor Allan Luke, Dean, Center for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Teachers must make thoughtful and careful decisions on how they would foster student involvement in classroom activities to create an environment conducive to learning and teaching. However, classroom management is often especially challenging for beginning teachers. This book is a valuable resource of beginning teachers, as well as serving teachers who are struggling with classroom management issues

Associate Professor Allan Yuen, Head, Division of Information and Technology Studies, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong

Effective classroom management skills are central to the process of teaching and learning. This book provides an extensive discussion of important issues related to classroom management. The book is written in a simple and clear language to help prepare trainee teachers enter the classroom with the necessary knowledge, skills and positive attitudes pertaining to teaching and classroom management. An added strengh of this book is that it is authored by Asian educators using the Asian classroom setting and environment as the focal point. As such, it can find a wider use in the Asian region.

Chandrasegaran Suppiah, Head, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Brunei Darussalam

This book provides a comprehensive and extensive knowledge base and offers practical suggestions for teachers who want to manage their classes effectively while facilitating teaching and learning for their students. This undoubtedly is one of the most clearly and well-written books. It is easy to read and covers topics that beginning teachers should always refer to and practice.

Professor Siow Heng Loke, Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya