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Customers find the book practical and concise, with one mentioning it’s a great reminder of effective classroom practices. Moreover, the book is easy to read and implement, and customers appreciate its value for both new and experienced teachers. However, several customers express that the book is not worth the money.
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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:
“Michael Linsin is the Shakespeare of smart classroom management, and his 18 lessons can transform American public education.” —Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Schools
The Total Classroom Management Makeover is a condensed shortcut to effective classroom management. Presented as simple dos and don’ts, the 18 lessons you’ll learn have been boiled down to the bare essentials and written in the most accessible way possible.
Together, they form an innovative approach to teaching and managing behavior that is specifically and uniquely designed to create within each student strong intrinsic desire to listen, learn, and behave.
The result is a tough-minded, hardworking, well-behaved class and the satisfaction of knowing that you’re making a lasting impact on your students, your community, and the wider world.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Jessica McCauley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent tool for all teachers
Review: I am so grateful for the books and web page! The books are great for beginners, and would be perfect to have while still in college preparing to he a teacher. They are also great for veteran teachers who are feeling stress and frustration. Often times we are too close to the situations to see the simple ways we can make a huge difference for the students and for ourselves, and truly love what we do once more! I wish I would have had books like these when I was first starting out on this journey. The book is a very quick read, so simple and yet so powerful…I have already seen a huge difference in my classroom!
Reviewer: Brittany O’Halloran
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Game Changing Book
Review: I love all his books and blog posts. He’s a fantastic teacher and I’d highly recommend him to anyone struggling with Classroom Management. I have tried everything in my classrooms and I abandoned basically all of them and replaced with the plan in this book. I’d also recommend the purple happy teacher book he wrote.This book is really short and to the point. If you want to change your classroom into a place where the kids learn to trust and respect you, and improve their behaviour drastically, but you don’t have time to read a textbook, this is perfect for you.It also makes a great gift for new teachers or experienced teachers!
Reviewer: Amy Lewis
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Recommended
Review: Very basic, but great for a new teacher with little experience who needs a fix they can implement today. Very fond of this authors articles.
Reviewer: Cynthia Ann Heckman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best, practical advice for your classroom!
Review: Practical and concise guide to turning your classroom around. This is more of an overview to guide you to thinking, activities and plans to customize your own plan for managing students. The author has more detailed resources on his website and in other books. This book would give you a taste of his ideas and whether you feel the system would be a good fit for you. If you are looking to be told what to do, this is not the book for you. If you want to make personal changes and choices that will work in your classroom, look no futher.
Reviewer: yd
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great essay to follow
Review: Great book, concise and practical. A most read for any teacher that wants to improve the classroom. And I am supposed to write 15 words to. Be able to submit my review
Reviewer: Dian
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great practical advise to implement immediately.
Review: This practical, concise book is a must read for new as well as veteran teachers. The summary page at end of the book provides a great reminder to look at every day until these strategies become second nature.
Reviewer: Leslie C.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sounds great!
Review: First quick read, it sounds great. It remains to be seen if I have follow through. If I have follow through and it works, I’ll come back next year and rate it 5 stars. I like his theory about ditching extrinsic rewards. I think that is spot on.
Reviewer: Garrett Zecker
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Upselling in an already slim volume?
Review: The best thing about this book is its brevity – often something lacking in education books and manuals who think that obfuscation, more glossy pages to drive up the cover price, and saying way too much about really simple topics equates to depth. That said, this short book with very quick lessons is a helpful guide to effective classroom management for new and seasoned teachers.Right in the beginning, however, I made an audible groan in a discipline chapter that points to none other than the author’s website to make additional purchases. That one paragraph turned me off so quickly that I immediately quoted it on goodreads:“An effective plan consists of a set of rules that cover every possible misbehavior and a set of consequences that matter to students. The plans I recommend, one for elementary and lower middle school teachers and one for high school and upper middle school teachers, are available for purchase and immediate download at [the author’s website].”Yikes.Anyway, here is a quote I found particularly helpful, and I will leave my review at that…”This could be work they do individually or in groups, but it is done entirely on their own. Shifting responsibility in total over to them will increase learning, improve maturity, and motivate your students intrinsically more than anything else you can do. Teachers who micromanage, who are quick to kneel down and reteach individual students what was taught to the entire class minutes before, struggle mightily with neediness, poor work habits, inattentiveness, and the misbehavior that comes with it. You see, when you do for students what they can do for themselves, when you prod and help and hint them along, you create a culture of learned helplessness. You create a class full of students who are immature, depen- dent, and distracted and have little confidence in their abilities. Therefore, predictably, instead of getting down to work, they misbehave. They make excuses. They slide low in their seats and stare at the walls. To wean them off the false belief that they need you, teach great lessons and then be very wary about helping. Instead, keep your distance and say, “I know you can do it,” “I believe in you,” or simply, “You don’t need my help.”
Reviewer: Ron
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very useful tips, and put together in a very easy to read format. Recommend for any teacher or parent or leader of any sort to read.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: whata big laugh!!!
Reviewer: Janie
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A quick read with clear, no nonsense tips on how to improve classroom culture. If you need some advice, this is it.
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I’ve been a fan of Michael Linsin’s website, Smart Classroom Management, for some years now. The articles are always fresh, interesting, relevant and useful. In this book, you will find it all distilled into seventeen steps. I know, seventeen sounds like a lot, but each chapter is only a page or so long, and they work with each other to create a thematic system for smart classroom management that really works!When I read the book, I decided to take it up on its challenge. I began with step one – a complete and total makeover of my class. I removed junk, completely tidied the classroom, and after a few days I had a working space I didn’t recognise! The other steps, on high standards, gentle disciple and relentlessly positive behaviour management, were also incredibly useful. How I wish I had read this book years ago!
Reviewer: Roxanne Schulte
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Love everything I’m reading so far – looking for more and more and more. Goes great with MyClassBloom resources in tpt
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