Fred Jones Tools for Teaching by
Fredric H. Jones
Great Resource
In Tools for Teaching, Dr. Jones describes the skills by which exceptional
teachers make the classroom a place of success and enjoyment for both
themselves and their students. Tools for Teaching integrates the
management of discipline, instruction and motivation into a system that
allows you to reduce the stress of teaching by preventing most
management headaches. Dr. Jones helps you reduce student disruptions,
backtalk, helpless handraising and dawdling while helping you increase
responsible behavior, motivation and independent learning. These skills
are made accessable by practical, down-to-earth language and many
examples and illustrations that provide the next best thing to attending one
of Dr. Jones workshops.
Personal Review: Fred Jones Tools for Teaching by Fredric H.
Jones
First, I must admit that I have not yet read this book, since I only just now
discovered it: I will remedy this immediately! I have, however, attended Dr.
Jones' wonderful classroom management workshops, and I can't recall
how many times I have related the opening exercise.
We, a group of anxious beginning teachers, were asked by the instructor to
list all of the behaviors that our students demonstrated that drove us MAD!
As we called out these iniquities, the instructor wrote them on the portable

board in front of the room: "they talk when they should listen, they eat,
drink and chew gum, they get up and walk around without permission, they
don't pay attention, they always want to go to the bathroom, they answer
without raising their hands, they play around with their friends, they show
neither common courtesy, nor appropriate respect for authority...".etc.)
When we had finally begun to run out of crimes, the instructor, turned the
board around and asked us to list behaviors we had observed during our
last faculty meeting...
Natural human behavior is just that - whether it's observed in a seventh
grader or a nearing retirement teacher. It's the context of learning to
understand and work with human beings that makes Dr. Jones' methods
so powerful. His workshops were the most valuable I ever attended as an
educator, and I feel certain this book will also prove to be a gem. I am now
an Assistant Principal, and I look forward to sharing his work with my
teachers.
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