New publications

Readers are offered ways to develop strategies for establishing safe, nurturing classroom communities; efficiently managing classroom time; fostering cooperative relationships; establishing and enforcing standards of conduct and procedures for classroom routines; collaborating in the development and implementation of schoolwide safety and discipline policies; working with individual differences among students; teaching students to productively manage conflict; and effectively dealing with misbehaviours, both violent and nonviolent. The book is designed to helo pre-service and in-service teachers apply research-based strategies in the classroom. Adapted from publisher's description.

Discipline and lack of motivation are two of the most vexing problems facing teachers today. Discipline in the Secondary Classroom, Second Edition offers high school teachers step-by-step guidance for designing a behaviour management plan to help prevent misbehaviour and increase student motivation. The book contains strategies with a research-based approach. It contains many forms, samples and evaluation tools to help teachers continually fine-tune their management plan to reach more students. The book also includes suggestions of teacher techniques for responding to misbehaviour in a calm and consistent manner. Adapted from publisher's description.

Contributions of leading authorities in discipline are analysed to suggest ways that teachers can create structures of positive discipline. This ninth edition has been restructured by the author to include increased emphasis on teachers and students working together cooperatively; better discussion of the behaviour patterns of students from different ethnic, cultural and societal groups; information  for understanding and working productively with students with Neurological Based Behavior (NBB); and a chronicle of advances in classroom discipline over the past six decades. Adapted from publisher's description; also available via DA Direct.

The report describes data on 15 measures of educational performance for the State and each regional Learning Service. The report also provides parents and the wider community with information on the State Government’s priority areas of the early years, literacy and numeracy, student retention, school improvement and equity. The second phase, to be released later this year, will enable individual schools to share extensive performance data with their community. This comprehensive data will clearly show parents and the community the rate of year-on-year improvement in our schools in absolute, not just relative, terms. Where possible, the data will be referenced against national figures and in other cases against a Tasmanian baseline set this year using historical data. Adapted from media release 22 June 2008 by Tasmanian Premier and Minister for Education and Skills, David Bartlett. See also commentary in The Mercury 24 June 2008.

The ALEA STELLA professional learning project was set up to explore ways of using STELLA as a framework for teachers' professional learning. In 2005 the project gave teachers in three Australian states an opportunity to work with a mentor to explore the STELLA professional standards, to develop their own professional learning, and to share their stories with other professionals. The teachers' stories in this collection are firmly based in classroom contexts, and tell about a variety of professional learning experiences that led to improved classroom outcomes. (From description on catalogue of the ALEA/AATE bookshop)

A collection of essays by academics from across Europe explores the relationship between models of history teaching, how they influence the building of collective and individual identities and civic education and, in particular, the impact on conflict resolution and intercultural education. The theoretical focus is on historical consciousness; the geographical focus is Europe and its Mediterranean neighbours. This is Volume Seven in the series European Issues in Children's Identity and Citizenship, examining the development and change in young people's socialisation in Europe and beyond. (Adapted from publisher's description)