Fred Jones
"For teaching to be enjoyable, you must be able to simply relax and teach. Classroom management must be built from the ground up so that most problems do not occur." – Dr. Fred Jones
Dr. Fred Jones received his Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA. He specializes in work with schools and families. He developed methods of helping children with severe emotional disorders while serving as the head of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the UCLA Medical Center. He has also pioneered classroom management research in both the regular education and special education classrooms. He has written two books concering his research; Positive Classroom Discipline and Positive Classroom Instruction. His most recent book, Tools for Teaching, provides an updated description of classroom management. He emphasizes the prevention of discipline problems and training children to be responsible, which place discipline management within a positive and affirming context.