Description
Build a positive, accountable classroom environment with restorative discipline!
Used together with The School Leader’s Guide to Restorative Discipline, this teacher’s guide shows how to implement a positive approach to classroom discipline based on shared expectations of behavior, contributing to consistent discipline schoolwide. The authors provide field-tested strategies for transforming classroom dynamics, with topics including:
- A step-by-step approach to introducing restorative discipline in your classroom
- Developing peer support and group problem-solving among students, including preventing bullying
- Partnering with families and community members
- Managing effective individual interventions
- Collaborating with administrators and staff on behavior change across the school community
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Guide
Section I. Setting the Context
1. Restorative Classroom Discipline
2. Behavior Expectations for Schools and Classrooms
3. Home-School and Community Relationships
Section II. Putting the Model in Place
4. Classroom Climate and Cultural Responsiveness
5. School and Classroom Support Structures
6. Interventions for Individual Students—Child-Focused Planning
7. Interventions for Individual Students—Principles in Practice
8. Reflecting Schoolwide Policy in Teacher Practice
Section III: Evaluating Effectiveness and Updating Practice
9. User-Friendly Evaluation Tools and Approaches
10. Professional Development Needs Assessment
References
Index
