Full Description
New from best-selling authors Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker, 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior: Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges is a must-read reference for teachers, both new and experienced!
In a lively and engaging style, Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker share 50 simple, straightforward techniques for improving student behavior and increasing student cooperation, participation, and achievement. Each practical, well-defined strategy can be applied in classrooms of all grade levels and subjects. Strategies include:
How to make students more responsible
How to nip potential problems in the bud
Learning what to overlook
Establishing classroom rules and procedures
Teaching in small bites (It makes students hungrier!)
As student behavior improves, so too will the quality of learning in your classroom. With this book, you can begin to introduce a host of new strategies into your teaching practice today!
Companion Study Guide Available
Contents
Chapter 1 Meet and Greet; Chapter 2 A Letter of Introduction; Chapter 3 Tools for Rules and Procedures; Chapter 4 Are You All Right?; Chapter 5 Stay Near, Dear; Chapter 6 Believe in Them!; Chapter 7 Meting Out the Seating; Chapter 8 Happy Notes to Parents; Chapter 9 Their Own Notes to Parents; Chapter 10 Make Them Responsible; Chapter 11 Stress Success, Not Duress; Chapter 12 Enthusiasm Breeds Enthusiasm; Chapter 13 Pry for Why; Chapter 14 A Laugh is Half; Chapter 15 Student or Teaching Problem?; Chapter 16 Learn What to Overlook; Chapter 17 If You Sweat, They Win; Chapter 18 Defuse the Bully; Chapter 19 Hold Private Practice Sessions; Chapter 20 Speak Awfully Softly; Chapter 21 Teaching in Small Bites Makes Them Hungrier; Chapter 22 Saving Gotcha for Behaving; Chapter 23 Find the Gleaming and Redeeming; Chapter 24 Join the Ranks of Thanks; Chapter 25 Humiliation Breeds Retaliation; Chapter 26 Beware the 90/10 Rule; Chapter 27 We Care About Those Who Care About Us; Chapter 28 As Nice, Polite, and Motivated as YOU?; Chapter 29 Unmask the Mask; Chapter 30 Don't Let the Mood Brood; Chapter 31 Who's the Most Positive?; Chapter 32 Become Interested in Their Interests; Chapter 33 A Favor as a Lifesaver; Chapter 34 Admit Your Mistakes; Chapter 35 Seeing Eye to Eye; Chapter 36 Bell-to-Bell Teaching; Chapter 37 Smile, Smile, Smile!; Chapter 38 Teaching With Urgency; Chapter 39 Make it Doable and Chewable; Chapter 40 Brag About Them to Others; Chapter 41 The Diversion Excursion; Chapter 42 Change the Way They Think; Chapter 43 Nip It in the Bud; Chapter 44 Discover the Beams of Their Dreams; Chapter 45 Work that Body Language!; Chapter 46 No Rest for the Weary; Chapter 47 A Little Guilt Trip Goes a Long Way; Chapter 48 Teach Them to Cope or They'll Create a Way!; Chapter 49 Listen, Listen, Listen!; Chapter 50 Only a Fool Loses His Cool;
