Full Description
How do you handle defiant, disruptive students?
A teacher's most challenging problem is the student who is frequently defiant and disruptive. These students create problems for themselves and for the classroom as a whole. In this teacher-friendly guide, Sylvia Rockwell uses her considerable experience to show you how to select and implement the most effective behavioral interventions to address the needs of these problem students while maintaining a cooperative classroom environment. This book integrates compelling, real-life teaching anecdotes with descriptions of research-based strategies to help students learn appropriate behavior, both those with emotional/behavior disorders (EBD) or other disabilities as well as those with other behavioral difficulties.
Special and general education teachers as well as administrators at the elementary level will find this book a vivid, powerful tool to help intervene effectively when behavior problems occur. Educators will find discussions on how to:
Identify typical and atypical development
Understand group development, including stages, roles, and strategies
Manage class-wide behavior, addressing conditions, consequences, and curriculum
Understand the behavior-achievement connection, with specifics on unit and lesson planning
Manage aggression and conflict
Develop resilience in students, teachers, and parents
This valuable resource also provides classroom-ready materials and other reproducibles, including a unique parent supplement to help parents understand your classroom strategies, work on behavior problems at home, and communicate effectively with school personnel.
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Foundations and Frameworks
Introduction
Foundational Principles
Theoretical Approaches to Behavior Management
A Rationale for Integrating the Theoretical Approaches
Conclusion
2. Typical and Atypical Development
Introduction
Typical Development
Atypical Development
Assessment
Conclusion
3. Group Development
Introduction
Group Formation: Characteristics and Processes
Stages of Group Development
Roles That Students Play
Roles That Teachers Play
The Pecking Order
Strategies for Building Community
Conclusion
4. Classwide Behavior Management
Introduction
Conditions
Consequences
Curriculum
Conclusion
5. The Behavior-Achievement Connections
Introduction
Learners Who Are at Risk
A Strategy Selection Framework
A Multifaceted Approach in Action
The Role of Assessment
Reading Instruction
Algebraic Thinking
Unit Planning
Elements That Facilitate Learning for Students Who Are at Risk
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Managing the "You Can't Make Me!" Moments
Introduction
Four Components of Behavior
The Anatomy of a Conflict
Stages of Aggression
Prevention and Early Intervention
Passive Aggressive Behavior
Learned Behavior Versus Manifestations of Mental Illness
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Special Case Interventions
A Note to General Education Teachers
Introduction
The Process
Jesse
Brad
Behavior Reduction Techniques
Additional Interventios and Resources
Methods for Intregrating Individual Plans With the Group Plan
The Ethics of Intervention Selection and Implementation
Conclusion
8. Resilience
Introduction
Research on Resilience
Facilitating Resilience in Schools
Ryan's Story
A Professional Response to Difficult Parents
A Rationale for Strengthening Elementary Programs for Children With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Facilitating Educators' Resilience
Characteristics of Effective Behavior Managers
Conclusion
Appendix A: Forms
Appendix B: Notes to Parents
References
Index
