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Discover the components of proactive classroom management. With this practical, step-by-step guide, teachers and school administrators will uncover five components that help improve student achievement and decrease classroom problems. Create clear expectations and rules, establish procedures and structure, reinforce expectations, actively engage students, and manage misbehavior. Learn how to develop individualized behavior plans to help students who continue to struggle.

This book helps new and experienced teachers find solutions to common classroom challenges. It presents 25 real scenarios along with \"What's Effective\", \"What's NOT Effective,\" and \"Bottom Line\" strategies for handling the most common teacher challenges. Ideal for high-interest staff development workshops or new teacher induction programs, this book shows teachers how to get students to do what you want them to do; deal with disrespectful student behaviors and handle \"I don't care\" attitudes; deal with parents and difficult co-workers; and solve other common teaching challenges.REAL Teachers, REAL Challenges, REAL Solutions: 25 Ways to Handle the Challenges of the Classroom Effectively is for teachers who need common-sense answers to common teaching challenges, experienced teachers who seek to become even more effective, and teachers who believe in treating their students with professionalism and dignity.

Problem-solving techniques for all aspects of the English teacher's job This unique time-saving book is packed with tested techniques and materials to assist new and experienced English teachers with virtually every phase of their job from lesson planning to effective discipline techniques. The book includes 175 easy-to-understand strategies, lessons, checklists, and forms for effective classroom management and over 50 reproducible samples teachers can adopt immediately for planning, evaluation, or assignments. It is filled with creative and functional ideas for reading response activities, writing assignments, group and individual projects, and speeches. * Offers instructions for creating and implementing an effective classroom-wide behavior management program * Shows how to practice the art of teaching English effectively and reduce time on labor intensive tasks * Reveals how to work effectively with parents, colleagues, substitute teachers, administrators, and community resources The second edition includes coverage of technology in the classroom, advice for working with reluctant readers, a wealth of sample teaching units and more.

Positive student behaviors are desired outcomes, but this manual concentrates on inputs. How do you respond to difficult behavior in the moment when you know that punitive, compliance-based behavior management is so often ineffectual? What's the best way to prevent students from acting out in the first place? The path to success requires behavioral leadership, in which teachers strategically model and affirm the behaviors they want to see in students. Behavior expert Scott Ervin calls on his two decades of experience to share the most effective procedures and strategies to foster positive, prosocial student behavior that supports learning, including ways to * Organize your physical classroom to support positive classroom management. * Build positive teacher-student relationships. * Share control with students in a way that best fosters their autonomy. The Classroom Behavior Manual is a resource you can return to again and again, packed with more than 100 strategies and dozens of procedures and tools. Learn how to respond to negative behaviors in nonpunitive ways so that you can ensure all students' school days are as calm, engaging, and educational as they possibly can be.

For classroom teachers at all levels, here is a unique collection of practical, proven-effective techniques and ready-to-use tools for managing classroom behavior and creating the positive environment that students and teachers need to promote learning. Each classroom-tested strategy is presented in a simple-to-use format for quick reference that shows: What the technique or idea is, Why you need it, and How to make it work. Plus, the techniques are complemented by support ideas, time-saving reproducible forms, lively illustrations, and interesting, reproducible quote about teaching. For easy to use, it s all printed in a big, 8-1/2\" x 11\" lay-flat format for easy photocopying and its organized into 10 sections: PHILOSOPHY provides a philosophical framework for the strategies presented in the book, such as \"The Three C s of Teaching.\" KNOW YOU \"CLIENTS\" features activities and surveys, including \"Icebreaker: Backpack Introductions\" and the \"student Survey,\" to help you learn about your students and their needs. HOME AND SCHOOL gives you support ideas and reproducible forms for improving the home school connection, such as \"Newsletters\" and \"Parent Homework Letter.\" THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL offers tops and ready-to-use tools for getting the school year off to a positive start, including \"Classroom Rules Checklist\" and \"Classroom Welcome Sign.\" VOCABULARY presents effective techniques for modifying student behavior, such as \"Grandma s Law,\" which motivates students with a payoff (\"desert\") for completing a task. TECHNIQUE, STRATEGIES, AND GOOD IDEAS is packed with easy-to-use ideas, including \"Noise Level Control\" and \"One-Minute Correction,\" for solving discipline problems. TEACHING SKILLS provides practical procedures that enhance your teaching and decrease disruptive behavior, such as \"Transition Time\" to reduce the time spent between activities and a \"Teacher Self-Assessment\" to help you evaluate and improve your teaching techniques. GREAT \"LITTLE GEMS\" offers a variety of helpful discipline and teaching strategies. For example, \"Token Economies\" shows you how to use a pint system to reward good behavior. SURVIVAL SKILLS gives you invaluable ideas for conserving energy and relieving stress, such as \"Crisis Management\" and the \"24-Hour Rule\" for handling difficult situations. FORMS features time-saving, reproducible forms, including \"Substitute Teacher Form,\" \"Office Discipline Ticket,\" and \"Student/Teacher/Parent Action Contract.\" In short, One-Minute Discipline is a practical guide providing effective, easy-to-implement approaches to the many classroom management and discipline challenges that teaches face every day.

All teachers face common classroom challenges. But the best teachers handle these challenges much differently than most. Effective teachers are those who have developed systems for dealing with common hurdles--how to work with underperforming students, how to defuse an angry parent, how to recover when you make a mistake with a student or administrator--in a way that improves student achievement and behavior, and minimizes stress for the teacher. Annette Breaux has devoted her career to studying highly effective educators. In this practical, accessibly written book she shares those secrets--tips, suggestions, and systems developed by the most successful classroom teachers. The book helps struggling educators address a wide variety of common challenges, such as: You've lost control of a classroom One student is pushing your buttons You've embarrassed a student in front of his peers A student refuses to tell you what's bothering him A parent accuses you of being against his child Many students performed poorly on a test You're not able to keep your students on task You're struggling with a lack of resources You're afraid to speak your mind at faculty meetings Your personal life is affecting your teaching You've begun to dislike your job Quick Answers for Busy Teachers provides concise, actionable solutions for these common problems and helps teachers to enjoy this richly rewarding profession.

At the start of your career or at the end of your rope... Recognized for a nontraditional approach to classroom discipline that really works, Jane Bluestein demonstrates how to build student accountability and end frustrating power struggles with all students. This authoritative, research-based guidebook considers the impact of stress, brain functioning, learning styles, and social and emotional factors on student behavior. Examples, guidelines, charts, and anecdotes, along with practical, powerful, and effective ideas will help you: Avoid the \"rules and punishment\" trap Establish win-win authority relationships Build a successful, positive, and caring community Encourage student cooperation, motivation, self-management, and on-task behavior.

Prevention is the key to a successful school behavior plan! This research-based guide offers strategies and plans for preventing problem behavior at both the classroom and school level. The book focuses on four essential areas-foundations, intervention, collaboration, and evaluation-and features: Information on prevention science and practice Reasons why conflict resolution, peer mediation, and bully-proofing are essential to prevention Effective practices for teaching social skills to young children Proven techniques for implementing schoolwide positive behavior support Ideas for home-school and community partnerships  Critical strategies for monitoring student progress Information on preschool behavior support and RTI

Inhalt: Reviewing your current knowledge of students with ADHD - Identifying characteristics of students with ADHD in your classroom - Understanding the legal requirements for identification of students with ADHD - Understanding the evaluation procedures used in the assessment of students with ADHD - Understanding how students with ADHD are diagnosed - Identifying treatment options for students with ADHD - Understanding the key components to effective classroom management for students with ADHD - Implementing academic instruction techniques - Implementing behavioral intervention techniques - Implementing classroom accommodation and modification techniques.