Full Description
Highly accessible and user-friendly, this book focuses on helping K-12 teachers increase their use of classroom management strategies that work. It addresses motivational aspects of teacher consultation that are essential, yet often overlooked. The Classroom Check-Up is a step-by-step model for assessing teachers' organizational, instructional, and behavior management practices; helping them develop a menu of intervention options; and overcoming obstacles to change. Easy-to-learn motivational interviewing techniques are embedded throughout. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes 20 reproducible forms, checklists, and templates.
This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.
Contents
1. Introduction to the Classroom Check-Up 2. Effective Classroom Behavior Management: What Is It and Why Is It Important? 3. Ingredients of Effective Consultation 4. Motivational Interviewing Applied to Teacher Consultation 5. The Classroom Check-Up Classwide Consultation Model 6. Interview and Assessment 7. Feedback and Beyond 8. Developing Effective Strategies for Classroom Change 9. Other Applications and Future Directions Appendices Appendix A. Motivational Interviewing Form Appendix B. Classroom Check-Up Interview and Observation Forms Appendix C. Classroom Check-Up Feedback and Action Planning Forms Appendix D. Intervention Planning Forms
