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Praise and gratitude writer prayed to God Almighty for His mercy so that the
writers can finish the task for Critical Book Review (CBR), this task is as the
complementary of six kind of task in Medan State University. In this paper the book that
reviewed is The Teacher’s Pocket Guide for Effective Classroom Management written by
Tim Knoster.
Hopefully this work can increase the knowledge for the reader and for the writer
self. Due to the lack of knowledge and experience from the writer, the writer sure that
there are still many shortcomings and weaknesses in the results of this work, therefore
the writer welcome any suggestions and constructive feedback, so that writer can make
a better result in the future.
Efrata
PREFACE .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1
TABLE OF CONTENT ....................................................................................................................................................... 2
CHAPTER I ........................................................................................................................................................................... 3
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
1.1 Rationalisation the Importance of CBR ....................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Purpose..................................................................................................................................................................... 3
1.3 Benefit ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3
1.4 Bool’s identity ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
CHAPTER II ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
DISCUSSION ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5
2.1 Summarizing .......................................................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Evaluating ................................................................................................................................................................ 5
CHAPTER III ........................................................................................................................................................................ 8
CONCLUSION & SUGGESTION ..................................................................................................................................... 8
INTRODUCTION
Critical Book Review (CBR) is one of six kind of task in Medan State University. It
is a required task that must be done by the students. Critical book review is important,
because by reviewing a book students can get a lot of precious information from the
book, students also can improve their summarizing ability, comparing a book with the
other, and the ability to evaluate a book from its cover, contents, grammatical, diction,
and also strength and weaknesses of the book.
Several students usually don’t want to read a book, even though there are many
benefits by reading, by doing Critical book review students are not only reading a book
but also summarizing and evaluating the book. From the statement above we can see
that there are many advantages by doing critical book review, so CBR is important.
1.2 Purpose
The general purpose of critical book review is as the complementary of six kind of
task. And also it used to improve the student ability to summarizing and evaluating the
book content.
1.3 Benefit
Hopefully this paper can be useful for the reader and for me as the writer to get
new knowledge and information about Classroom management from the book I
reviewed, and also improve my ability of writing a paper.
DISCUSSION
2.1 Summarizing
The book that reviewed has eleven chapters, but in this paper, the chapter that
summarized is only chapter three - So How Do I Prevent Problem Behaviour in My
Classroom.
1. Rapport
2. Clear expectations
The importance of establishing rapport with your students is (for the most part) a
universally accepted understanding in our schools today. Oddly enough, however, many
teachers struggle daily with establishing rapport with all their students, especially those
who appear difficult to reach. In other words, we have somewhat of an understanding
as teachers regarding the importance of connecting with our students, but as a field, we
1. As we can see from the face value, for the book cover, the book that reviewed
Teacher’s Pocket Guide for Effective Classroom Management, it looks attractive and
colourful, In my opinion with the cover like that it will attract the readers to read the
book.
2. In the books, the lay out has arranged properly, it can be seen from the position of the
title in every chapter, the using of punctuation is also good. And the font and the font
size are also appropriate.
3. The materials in the books are suitable to each titles of the chapter.
4. For the grammatical used in the book, the writers has used a good grammatical, it is
also same as the diction, the word that used is simple and easily to understand.
After reviewing the book titled The Teacher’s Pocket Guide for Effective
Classroom Management written by Tim Knoster, it can be conclude that, realistically
teacher will be unable to prevent inappropriate behaviour from ever occurring in the
classroom. Rather, what teacher can do is establish a few basic operating procedures
that will enhance the learning environment in a way that can dramatically reduce the
likelihood of both nuisance and problem behaviours. There are three following
principles of practice are relevant for teacher:
1. Rapport
2. Clear expectations
Rapport means teacher must have create a positive relationship with their students,
clear expectation means developing a set of cultural norms within your classroom and
ultimately about fostering social competence in all your students. Lastly, reinforcement
of expected behaviour is praising student while they are doing something good in the
classroom. Those three aspects can significantly reduce students’ problem behaviour in
the classroom. So for the teacher, I suggest that, it is better to create a positive
connection with students, establish clear expectation, and reinforce student when they
are doing something good rather than scold and shout to students while they are
showing problem behaviour in the classroom.