Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher Illustrated Edition

This text was required for an online class I took. I loved the convenience of being able to order it from Amazon and have it instantly on my Kindle! Also, having the choice to rent or buy on many textbooks is an awesome option to save some money. Once the rental period is up, you usually have the option to purchase the text and get credit for the amount you paid to rent it. So if you decide you want to keep it you don't end up paying both the rental and purchase prices!

Classroom management is so important, and yet teachers often take feedback related to classroom management very, very, very personally. Marzano's book create a "third person" in the room and helps ground coaching conversations around classroom management.The strategies outlined in the book are all common, simple to execute, and known to be effective. Anyone can use this book to improve their craft or to help a colleague. Plus, it's short and easy to read. That's a big help to a busy teacher.

Great resource for teachers to use

I read a lot of the other reviews of this book and many were negative. The biggest complaint being that it is too general or covers many things that we are doing already. I have been teaching for 24 years. I have taught in 2 school districts and covered every grade level from Pre-K to 12th grade. I am working on a project in classroom management for a Master's Class and I found this book to be perfect. Were there tons of surprises in it for me? Not at all. But, many of the strategies I have utilized for years this book talked about the research behind why they work. Sometimes in reading that research you might have an idea for how you could tweak something just a little bit and make it even better. To those other reviewers my advice would be not to look for an instruction manual on teaching. It doesn't work. Your kids are different than everyone else's kids. Instead look for books like this that provide the broad ideas and use those to narrow down to strategies you believe will work in your classroom!If you buy it I hope you find it as useful as I did and thanks for taking the time to read my review.

I am NOT a Marzano fan. He just cranks out old-hat news regurgitated with other people's research. --but I HAD to use it for a course I was taking. For a new teacher this would probably be handy; for someone three years away from retirement, not so much. --but none of this has anything to do with the quality of the book or Amazon's service, which was all great.

I love Robert Marzano! Every new teacher needs to read and follow this advice.

We used this book as a text for a behavior management course from JBV from Sioux Falls University. It was great. It was easy to read, easy to understand easy to use and the research-based study, data and varied management philosophies made this book a great resource. I plan to refer to it frequently throughout my teaching career. I want to know it well.

.....it's Robert Marzano! His work is legendary and his techniques really do work. Michigan Learnport has an entire course based on this book, so you know he's got it right. I was assigned to read as much Marzano as I can over the summer, and this is one of the books my principal wanted me to read. I would have read it anyway. Everyone needs some advice on classroom management.