About The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know (Rogers Pedagogical Book 1) by Richard Rogers
Most books about classroom management are filled with tricks and techniques that help the teacher to engage with his or her students in a better way. Like paracetamol for a chronic headache, these books offer a temporary relief for the symptoms of bad teacher-student rapport without addressing the root causes. The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know is not one of those books.
Effective classroom management depends upon how effectively the teacher deals with the dynamic interplay of many factors in the life of the child. This book will teach you, through the hard-earned experience of the author and the contributors, the secrets of:
1. Working effectively with parents: your key customers
2. Enjoying productive relationships with your co-workers
3. Building and maintaining rapport with your students
4. Actively engaging your students in the learning process
5. Engaging your advanced learners (such as your ‘A’ – Level, SAT and IBDP students)
6. Managing student behaviour in a way that is non-confrontational
7. Using ICT to effectively enhance the learning process
8. Teaching overseas, and the special challenges this involves
Fully illustrated with full colour infographics, images, diagrams and charts (and with extensive citations throughout) this book offers a ‘breath of fresh air’ for the pedagogical literature scene and provides a high-quality, accessible and essential guide for every high school teacher.
Mr Richard James Rogers was born in Wales and educated at Bangor University, UK. He has taught Science, Mathematics and German language at all levels of the British secondary school system and has been teaching at international schools in Thailand since 2008. He has lead INSET sessions at Bangkok Teachers’ Network conferences and he lead a team of students to win the Thailand Tournament of Minds Championship in 2012. This is his first of many anticipated books to come.
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Author Bio:
Richard James Rogers received both his bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology and his PGCE in Secondary Science Education from Bangor University (Wales, UK). This was an excellent foundation for the steep learning curve that would follow as he pursued his career as a teacher of Science and Mathematics at UK state schools, and afterwards at elite international schools in Asia. His 16 years of full time teaching experience have seen him instruct IGCSE German, Key Stage 3 and 4 Science, Computer Studies and Mathematics and three subjects at ‘AS’, ‘A2’ and IB Diploma level: Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics. He also went on to lead a team of students to win the Thailand Tournament of Minds Championship in 2012 and has been an active educational blogger, columnist and online pedagogical content editor since 2010. His debut book: ‘The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know’, is a widely acclaimed practical teaching manual for Newly Qualified Teachers and offers an overview of what, in his experience and research, works best when it comes to engaging your learners and being happy in your job as a high school teacher. As a Google Certified Educator, Richard is also passionate about the correct and efficient implementation of educational technology to enhance teaching and learning.
Richard is a regular contributor to UKEdChat.com and features in their podcasts and online magazines. He actively writes about a range of different issues to do with teaching at his weekly blog: richardjamesrogers.com
Richard lives in Bangkok, Thailand, where he teaches Chemistry, Science and Computer Studies at an international school.