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I was really looking forward to reading The Reluctant Disciplinarian because I am worried about my ability to manage my classroom.  It started out with promise, but after a while I began to get the feeling that the author was telling me less about how to manage a classroom than about how to play a teaching game.  I appreciate his early advice about overconfidence and some pitfalls that most beginning teachers come across while learning, but the chapter about what doesn't work started to read like a chapter that could have been titled "do what everybody else does because its what's expected."  I didn't necessarily have any grand designs of changing the classroom management landscape, but at the same time its somewhat discouraging and disheartening to hear that creative or new approaches are inherently bad.  And I'm not even a creative person.