ABSTRACT
Teachers will tell anyone willing to listen that their biggest headache is a student whose rowdiness disrupts their classroom. Classroom nuisances and more serious danger go to the heart of this book’s main theme for teachers: learning to be effective managers, especially of those students who choose to make trouble and cause discipline problems when, ideally, they should be working hard on projects they themselves see as important and high quality. Teachers’ best hope for changing students’ inappropriate behavior is by changing what they do. Sooner or later, students will see that a new quality is developing in the classroom and they will come to see their options for more useful actions.
