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Teacher Effectiveness Training: The Program Proven to Help Teachers Bring Out the Best in Students of All Ages
by Thomas Gordon
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780609809327 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
For nearly thirty years, Teacher Effectiveness Training, or the T.E.T. book, based on Dr. Thomas Gordon’s groundbreaking program, has taught hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world the skills they need to deal with the inevitable student discipline problems effectively and humanely.
Now revised and updated, T.E.T. can mean the difference between an unproductive, disruptive classroom and a cooperative, productive environment in which students flourish and teachers feel rewarded.
You will learn:
• What to do when students give you problems
• How to talk so that students will listen
• How to resolve conflicts so no one loses and no one gets hurt
• How to best help students when they’re having a problem
• How to set classroom rules so that far less enforcement is necessary
• How to increase teaching and learning time
Now revised and updated, T.E.T. can mean the difference between an unproductive, disruptive classroom and a cooperative, productive environment in which students flourish and teachers feel rewarded.
You will learn:
• What to do when students give you problems
• How to talk so that students will listen
• How to resolve conflicts so no one loses and no one gets hurt
• How to best help students when they’re having a problem
• How to set classroom rules so that far less enforcement is necessary
• How to increase teaching and learning time
Synopsis:
The revised edition of this book's companion volume, "Parent Effectiveness Training, " has enjoyed strong sales since its publication in 2000. The revised "Teacher Effectiveness Training" is certain to mirror its success.
About the Author
Dr. Thomas Gordon, a licensed clinical psychologist, has authored nine books, including Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) and Leader Effectiveness Training (L.E.T.). These books have sold more than six million copies worldwide. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times and was a consultant to the White House Conference on Children. Dr. Gordon founded Gordon Training International (www.gordontraining.com), a human relations training organization with programs for parents, teachers, and businesspeople. Gordon Training International is based in Solana Beach, California, and has representatives in more than thirty countries around the world.
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Romsted, April 4, 2006 (view all comments by Romsted)
The typical program for "classroom management" focuses either on discipline (how to be assertive and fair) or procedures (how to plan ahead to avoid problems). These are both useful tools, but there is a subtext to these discussions: the ideal classroom is free of conflict, and if there is conflict, it is either the fault of the teacher or the student. But, as any real teacher will tell you, a classroom free of conflict is a fantasy.
Students and teachers can't help but bring their clashing values, hopes, fears, struggles at home and with their friends and innumerable other issues into the classroom. And these issues are bound to cause conflict. Teachers are typically presented with two options: be strict, or be permissive; either the teacher uses his/her power to quell the students regardless of their needs, or students use their power to get what they want, regardless of how the teacher and the class suffer, and the teacher lets it slide hoping to get back to teaching. There has to be a better way!
In T.E.T., Thomas Gordon applies the highly successful and popular method developed for families in P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training) to the classroom. Very schematically, T.E.T. involves 3 steps. First, identify who is really having the problem. If a students are talking too loudly for the teacher to be heard, the teacher is having a problem and needs to communicate that to the students as a first step. If a student is daydreaming instead of working, the student is having a problem and the teacher needs to be able to listen dispassionately to find out what is wrong. Second, use "I Messages" and "Active Listening" to get to the heart of the problem (both these techniques are described in detail). Third, if a solution doesn't present itself immediately, T.E.T. describes a conflict resolution method that can help both teacher and student get their needs met without using power plays. Gordon suggests (I think rightly) that it is the use of power to solve problems that engenders the defensiveness and resentment so common to student-teacher relationships.
T.E.T. won't solve everything. Good procedures are still needed to reduce the number of situations that lead to conflict. And power based discipline is still needed in extreme cases (e.g. weapons in the classroom). But, by using the methods described in T.E.T., teachers can establish more honest and respectful relationships with their students and reduce the time wasted on power plays and petty games, leaving more time for real teaching.
Three final notes. Teachers may run into kids who have had such bad relationships with the adults in their lives that they can't help seeing teachers as enemies, to be pushed and attacked whenever possible. T.E.T. may not work right away with these kids, making classic discipline neccesary.
People who don't like T.E.T. on the first read usually see it as simply another version of anything-goes permissiveness. But Gordon tries to make clear that anything that is a problem for the teacher 'is' out of bounds and 'needs to be fixed'. Its just a question of fixing the problem through dialogue instead of force.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780609809327
- Subtitle:
- The Program Proven to Help Teachers Bring Out the Best in Students of All Ages
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Three Rivers Press (CA)
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Teaching Methods & Materials - General
- Subject:
- Classroom management
- Subject:
- Effective teaching
- Subject:
- Teacher effectiveness.
- Edition Number:
- 1st Rev. ed.
- Edition Description:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Series Volume:
- 107-273
- Publication Date:
- August 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions:
- 804x520x77 60
