Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.

Students' perceptions of you as their teacher -- Striving for continuous physical arrangement of the classroom and materials -- Expectations and procedures by which your classroom runs -- Consequences you choose to use to encourage appropriate behavior -- Students' engagement in academic lessons -- Classroom climate and communication.

"Students in classrooms with teachers who excel at behavior management tend to be more engaged, less disruptive, and achieve better academic outcomes. Furthermore, effective behavior management practices are seen as a key to achieving the goal of inclusive education. Teaching is a stressful job, and no struggle causes greater stress to general education and special education teachers than student misbehavior. Creating a New Beginning helps teachers-both new and veteran-who are struggling with classroom management, with an emphasis on classrooms that have one or more students with an emotional/behavioral disorder (EBD). Even veteran teachers who have a student with EBD included in the classroom for the first time may find themselves struggling. Teachers who work through the materials in the book will develop effective classroom management skills, which will result in improved teacher-student relationships, increased time to teach and learn, increased student academic learning, and greater teacher satisfaction in teaching. This last will contribute to reduced teacher attrition. With the increased diversity of today's students and with the identified links between teacher burnout and classroom management, the need for this book is great, and will only increase"-- Provided by publisher.