The powerfully effective method for facilitating positive behavior in the classroom!
Brain research and good planning can be combined to prevent and/or minimize discipline problems and off-task behavior in the classroom. Chapters cover:
- Moving from old-fashioned obedience models to effective student self-management skills
- Working with on-task and off-task behaviors: motivation, stress, flow, timing, environment, resources, and more
- Dealing with difficult students and difficult issues, including power, revenge, anger, and poverty
- Planning that facilitates positive behavior
- Using cooperative learning skills
- Teaching social skills
- Using strategies for the self-system
- Focusing on metacognitive skills
- A model for classroom management
- Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
- Bibliography and index
Tabela de Conteúdo
About the Author
Introduction
Vocabulary Pre-Test Vocabulary Pre-Test Vocabulary Pre-Test Vocabulary Pre-Test
1. Old Fashioned Discipline
2. The Basis for Off-task Behavior
3. Dealing With Difficult Students
4. Planning That Facilitates Positive Behavior
5. Using Cooperative Learning Skills as a Guide
6. A Model for Classroom Management
7. A Model for Classroom Management
Glossary
Vocabulary Post-Test
Bibliography
Index
Sobre o autor
Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin′s bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her Ed D from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com