Teasing, Tattling, Defiance and More: Positive Approaches to 10 Common Classroom Behaviors - Softcover

Wilson, Margaret Berry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892989549 ISBN 13: 9781892989543

Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools Inc, 2013

Synopsis

"Filled with practical strategies that will help you teach positive behavior with skill, warmth, and understanding." -- Gianna Casetta, Co-Executive Director, SOAR Schools.

This practical guide offers simple, effective techniques for addressing:

• Listening and attention challenges
• Teasing
• Cliques and exclusion
• Tattling
• Defiance
• Disengagement
• Silliness and showing off
• Too much physical contact
• Dishonesty
• Frustration and meltdowns

Veteran educator and Responsive Classroom consultant Margaret Berry Wilson helps you understand why students sometimes misbehave and how a positive, respectful approach to discipline can transform your classroom. For each problem behavior, she explains which proactive strategies to use, how to respond most effectively when children misbehave, and how to talk with parents.

NOTE: Each chapter of this book is available in the Kindle store.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Berry Wilson has been presenting Responsive Classroom workshops and teaching educators throughout the country since 2004. She wrote the kindergarten, first grade, and second grade books in the What Every Teacher Needs series, and is the author several other books published by Center for Responsive Schools. She currently serves as an assistant head of school in Riverside, California.

Review:

Every chapter is informative and easy to read, with practical suggestions to solve common classroom behaviors that interfere with learning. I'm a veteran school counselor, and it reminded me that I might need to change my approach to situations that arise in order to make sure that every child is successful. -- Melinda Ryan, Herndon, VA

Every teacher knows that it is the 'little' daily problems that sap our strength. Wilson shows you how you can approach 10 everyday behavior challenges with warmth and empathy. She manages to validate teachers, while pointing them toward solutions that will enhance their relationships with students. This is not a prescriptive book of solutions, rather a thoughtful and comprehensive approach. Yet a teacher can still quickly find strategies for dealing with a particular behavior. We are provided with the reasons why a student might in engage in the behavior, strategies to prevent the behavior, how to respond in the moment, what can be done if the behavior continues, and how to talk to parents about the behavior. Most helpful are all the examples of language to use with students and parents. Another handy addition is an appendix with read aloud books to match classroom challenges. I expect my copy will be well-worn from use. -- K. Amy Ross, Grade 4/5 teacher, Ord Terrace Elementary School, Seaside, California

Teasing, Tattling, Defiance and More provides teachers with appropriate language and other practical, concrete strategies for encouraging students and positively redirecting them. Educators will come away motivated to intervene effectively with common challenging student behaviors. --Nancy Rappaport, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and co-author of The Behavior Code

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1892989549
• ISBN 13: 9781892989543
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267