Full Description
Dispel discipline problems with new classroom management techniques!
Behavioral problems often occur when students are bored or unmotivated. Your best offense is a classroom environment that's proactive, supportive, and fun. This newly revised edition from education expert, Marcia L. Tate, helps you meet your students where they are. You'll find 5 new ways to detour students around misbehavior, updated research, new vignettes, and the latest classroom management techniques that you can implement right away.
In a new two color illustrated format, Tate provides a theoretical framework, practical applications, detailed implementation, and reflection opportunity for each strategy introduced. Teachers at all levels will discover Common Core-aligned techniques that will help them to:
• Establish a relationship with students that supports deep learning
• Deliver brain-compatible lessons
• Work with students who have attention deficit disorder and chronic behavior problems
• Promote student concentration and memory with classroom arrangement, light, color, and music
Learn how to improve student learning in today's challenging social climate. Implement the crucial elements for lasting motivation and engagement with this essential guide!
Praise for the First Edition:
"Teachers of any grade level, Pre-K through adult, can benefit from this book. It is an easy read with useful ideas that are backed up by quality research. Teachers can read about a strategy very quickly, learn why it is important, discover the steps for implementation, and begin reflecting on how to apply the strategy to their own classroom."
—Denise Leonard, Beginning Teacher
Support and Assessment Staff Development Teacher
Torrance Unified School District, CA
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Detour: Get to Know Each Student
1. Develop a Relationship With Each Student
What: Creating a Caring Culture
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
2. Expect the Best!
What: You Get What You Expect
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
3. Understand the Symptoms
What: Causes of Misbehavior
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
Detour: Create a Physical Environment Conducive to Learning
4. Light Up Their World
What: Lighting and the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
5. Let the Music Play
What: Music and the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
6. Color Their World
What: Color and the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
7. Stop and Smell the Roses
What: Aromas and the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
8. Create a Natural Environment
What: Room Arrangement and the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
Detour: Engage the Brains of Your Students
9. Use Brain-Compatible Strategies
What: Engaging the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
10. Hook Them Into Relevant Lessons
What: Attention and the Bain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
11. Let Them Talk!
What: Conversation and the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
12. Let Them Move!
What: Movement and the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
13. Keep Them Laughing
What: Humor and the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
Detour: Develop a Proactive Management Plan
14. Teach Your Rituals
What: Establishing Your Procedures
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
15. Accentuate the Positive
What: Creating an Affirming Classroom Environment
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
16. Celebrate Good Times, Come On!
What: Celebrations and the Brain
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
17. Use Low-Profile Interventions
What: Intervening Appropriately
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
18. De-emphasize the Negative
What: Consequences For Misbehavior
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
19. Get Help With Chronic Behavior Challenges
What: Managing the Difficult to Manage
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
20. Solicit Parental Support
What: Parents on Your Side
Why: Theoretical Framework
How: Classroom Application
Reflection
Bibliography
Index
