Managing the Madness: A Practical Guide to Middle Grades Classrooms

In the pages of Managing the Madness you ll find innovative and specific ideas on discipline, humor, technology integration, student-teacher interactions, attention grabbers, classroom management, and much more. He tackles the most awkward situations that arise in middle level classrooms that are not often considered in other books."There are moments with Jack Berckemeyer when I think I m in the presence of absolute genius; he s a dynamo that never fails to inspire. Using everyday classroom realities, Jack cultivates our instructional potential, using acts of kindness, stunning wit, and vibrant applications of the middle school concept. And just as refreshing, there are other times when Jack is an overgrown adolescent who is making good on his promise to his teachers that he d one day rule the educational universe and inject it with a healthy dose of warped and wonderful humor. We are lucky to be in his orbit." Rick Wormeli