About me
I was born in Germany and was a teacher for a short time. After a difficult class, I quit teaching and studied psychology. Then I was a school psychologist in Switzerland.
I wrote the first well-known German-language book on classroom management: “Classroom-Management: Wie Lehrer, Eltern und Schüler guten Unterricht gestalten” 13th edition and several other books on this topic.
In 2023, I published 44 articles on the topic of classroom management. 4 articles in Slovenia 2025.
Latest books from me:
– With Psychology into the Classroom: Teaching more easily and loosely (2022)
– Escalation in the classroom: Successfully limiting classroom disruptions, insults and violence, Klett-Cotta (2025)
– The class rules: The book from 2014 COMPLETELY revised (2025); Klett-Cotta.
Publications in: China, South Korea, in Europe e.g. in Great-Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia.
For the following institutions I offer (or have already offered) face-to-face and online workshops on classroom management,
Federal congresses for school psychology and at psychology academies in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
– Head teacher congresses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
– WELS (World Education Leadership Symposium, CH).
Universities:
Austria: Universities of Vienna, Innsbruck.
Switzerland: Universities of Zurich, Basel, also HfH Zurich
Bulgaria: University of Plovdiv,
Slovenia: University of Bratislava
Germany: Universities of Frankfurt, Freiburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Constance, Lüneburg, Mainz, Munich, Oldenburg, Tübingen, Vechta, Würzburg.
University College of Teacher Education:
Austria: PH Burgenland, PH Steiermark, PH Tirol, PH Vorarlberg, KPH Katholisch Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/Krems.
Switzerland: PH Bern, PH Lucerne, PH St. Gallen, PH Schaffhausen, PH Valais, PH Central Switzerland, PH Zurich, FHNW (Fach-Hochschule Nord-West-Schweiz)
Germany: PH Freiburg, PH Weingarten, EHS-Dresden (Evangelische Hochschule) (D)
Interview auf you-tube: Trier: Schule im Gespräch:
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iOBM3nAvJs
