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About This Book
It’s every educator’s worst fear: losing control of the classroom. Regain the focus of challenging and resistant students with this practical resource on classroom management, discipline, and motivation. The dedicated authors re-examine the root causes of student misbehavior and offer a range of easy-to-implement instructions and activities—along with real-world stories of these strategies in action—to prevent and defuse future disruptive classroom moments.
Benefits
• Understand the hostility cycle and how to break it.
• Gain in-class and out-of-class strategies for relationship building.
• Find out ways defiant students can be successful in the classroom.
• Learn effective language for difficult or resistant students.
• Use use an “interest inventory” to stay attuned to your students’ needs.
Topics : Student behavior
Table Of Content
Introduction
On The Spot
A Three-Prong Approach
Identifying The Problem
What Does Work',
Prevention Strategies
Convey Warmth
Give Opportunities For Students To Be In Charge
Be Respectful of Differences In the Ways Students Learn 18
Intervention Strategies
The Hostility Cycle
Substitute Less Powerful Words and Images
Activity For Reframing
Learn and Use Defusing Strategies
Basic Defusing Skills
Specific Defusing Statements
Additional Steps That May Be Necessary
The Private Three-Step Technique
Dealing With the Rest of the Class
Power Struggle Scenarios
An Article: Classroom Counteraggression
Bibliography
About the Authors
Allen N. Mendler:
Allen N. Mendler is an educator, school psychologist, behavior and classroom management expert, and parent of three children.
He has worked extensively with children of all ages in regular education and special education settings. He has consulted to many schools on the topics of discipline, behavior, and classroom management. He has also consulted at day and residential centers, and has done extensive work with youth in juvenile detention.
Dr. Mendler's emphasis is on developing effective frameworks and strategies for educators to manage behavior and classrooms. He is an expert at helping youth professionals, teachers, administrators, and parents help difficult youth succeed.
As one of the internationally acclaimed authors of the book Discipline with Dignity, Dr. Mendler has given many workshops and seminars to professionals and parents. His behavior management philosophy is highly acclaimed, and Dr. Mendler is in demand as a motivational speaker and trainer by schools all over the world.
He is the author or co-author of many books including: What Do I Do When?, Power Struggles: Successful Techniques for Educators, Motivating Students Who Don't Care
Connecting with Students, Discipline with Dignity for Challenging Youth
Dr. Mendler's most recent book, Just in Time, provides practical easy-to-read tips and specific methods for preventing discipline problems. His articles have appeared in many journals including Educational Leadership, Kappan, Learning, Reclaiming Children and Youth, and Reaching Today's Youth.
ISBN: 9960863212
Author: Allen N. Mendler
Publisher: Educational Book House
Size: 14*21.5cm
Pages number: 65
