A Review of Rick Dahlgren's Book of
Classroom Management Strategies,
"Time To Teach"

Teachers have one of the most difficult jobs in today's world. A teacher's day is filled with many tasks not directly related to instruction: classroom management, discipline, administrative tasks, bus duties, lunch counts, social needs of children, endless reports, and even repairs and maintenance in their classrooms. All these tasks make many teachers wonder, "When will I find time to teach?"

In his classroom management resource book titled "Time To Teach," author Rick Dahlgren describes a set of classroom management strategies that are simple, fair, and mutually respectable. These classroom management strategies can help teachers restore lost instructional time. These ideas are explained clearly, helping teachers expand their own "Time To Teach."

Promptly addressing minor problems in order to prevent major ones - at home and at school - is what makes good disciplinarians, according to Dahlgren. Good discipline begins with the "little stuff" as contemporary teachers realize. In "Time To Teach," Dahlgren demonstrates how promptly paying attention to the "little stuff," a teacher can prevent the "big stuff." In other words, good timing is the key to effective discipline.

Dahlgren includes both theories and techniques in "Time To Teach." Theories are presented to explain low-level behaviors and how they impact children. Then the book presents techniques for eliminating those behaviors. Teachers are shown techniques they can use to be confident when handling a wide range of behavioral challenges with great satisfaction.

Rick Dahlgren believes that children and adolescents can and will be responsible for their own behavior and learning, if important skills are taught first. He was initially guided by Dr. Madeline Hunter and Coach John Wooden, both of UCLA (quite a story). "Time To Teach" focuses on proven strategies for teaching these important skills to students, evaluating their successes, and certainly focuses on the art of delivering effective consequences when all else fails.

To prevent discipline problems, and to deal effectively with those that do occur, Dahlgren outlines special techniques. Teachers learn effective classroom management strategies they can implement immediately and begin regaining lost instructional time that is so important in today's classrooms. At 140 pages, "Time To Teach" is written in a quick to read "non-educationese" style.

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