Vern Jones

Chair, Education Department: Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, School Counseling
Professor of Education

department: Education
office: 403 Rogers Hall
phone: 503-768-6050
e-mail: jones@lclark.edu

Professional Biography

Vern Jones has been a junior high school teacher of students with emotional and behavior problems, a junior high school vice principal, and a district resource coordinator for students with emotional and behavior disorders. He is currently Chair of the Education Department. From 1986 to 1989, Vern was co-chair of the American Educational Research Association's special interest group on classroom management. He has served as a scholar in residence in the department of education at Western Michigan State University, visited California State University at Riverside as a Distinguished Scholar, given the centennial address for the University of Idaho School of Education, and served as a distinguished lecture series presenter at Hastings College in Nebraska. In 1990, he won the Burlington Northern Award as Graduate School Teacher of the Year at Lewis & Clark College. He has given keynote addresses at state conferences in over ten states and consulted with school districts and staff in over 25 states

Current Research

• Effective classroom management

• Programs for students with emotional and behavioral disorders

Publications

Books

Jones, Vern. (2007). Comprehensive classroom management: Creating positive learning environments and solving problems. (8th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Jones, Vern, Dohrn, B., & Dunn, C. (2004). Effective programs for students experiencing emotional and behavioral disorders. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Jones, Vern. (1981). Responsible classroom discipline: Creating positive learning environments and solving problems. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Jones, Vern. (1980). Adolescents with behavior problems: Strategies for teaching, counseling, and parent involvement. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Chapters

Jones, Vern. (2005). How do teachers learn to be effective classroom managers? In C. Evertson & C. Weinstein (Eds.), Handbook of classroom management: Research, practice and contemporary issues.

Jones, Vern. (1996). Classroom management. In J. Sikula (Ed.), Handbook of research on teacher education: Second Edition. New York: Macmillan.

Jones, Vern. (1987). Major components in a comprehensive program for seriously emotionally disturbed children. In R. Rutherford (Ed.), Severe behavior disorders of children and youth. College Hills Press.

Jones, Vern. (1986). Classroom management in the United States: Trends and critical issues. In D. Tatum (Ed.), Disruptive pupil behavior in schools. New York: Wiley.

Jones, Vern. (1982). Training teachers to be effective classroom managers. In D. Duke (Ed.), Helping teachers manage classrooms. 1982 Yearbook of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Reston, Virginia: ASCD.

Academic Credentials

Ph.D. 1971 University of Texas at Austin
B.A. 1968 Lewis & Clark College