50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior: Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges / Edition 1

by Todd Whitaker, Annette Breaux

Overview

New from best-selling authors Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker, 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior: Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges is a must-read reference for teachers, both new and experienced!

In a lively and engaging style, Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker share 50 simple, straightforward techniques for improving student behavior and increasing student cooperation, participation, and achievement. Each practical, well-defined strategy can be applied in classrooms of all grade levels and subjects. Strategies include:

• How to make students more responsible
• How to nip potential problems in the bud
• Learning what to overlook
• Establishing classroom rules and procedures
• Teaching in small bites (It makes students hungrier!)

As student behavior improves, so too will the quality of learning in your classroom. With this book, you can begin to introduce a host of new strategies into your teaching practice today!

Companion Study Guide Available

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596671324
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/13/2009
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	438,157
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Authored by Whitaker, Todd; Breaux, Annette

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Meet and Greet; Chapter 2 A Letter of Introduction; Chapter 3 Tools for Rules and Procedures; Chapter 4 Are You All Right?; Chapter 5 Stay Near, Dear; Chapter 6 Believe in Them!; Chapter 7 Meting Out the Seating; Chapter 8 Happy Notes to Parents; Chapter 9 Their Own Notes to Parents; Chapter 10 Make Them Responsible; Chapter 11 Stress Success, Not Duress; Chapter 12 Enthusiasm Breeds Enthusiasm; Chapter 13 Pry for Why; Chapter 14 A Laugh is Half; Chapter 15 Student or Teaching Problem?; Chapter 16 Learn What to Overlook; Chapter 17 If You Sweat, They Win; Chapter 18 Defuse the Bully; Chapter 19 Hold Private Practice Sessions; Chapter 20 Speak Awfully Softly; Chapter 21 Teaching in Small Bites Makes Them Hungrier; Chapter 22 Saving Gotcha for Behaving; Chapter 23 Find the Gleaming and Redeeming; Chapter 24 Join the Ranks of Thanks; Chapter 25 Humiliation Breeds Retaliation; Chapter 26 Beware the 90/10 Rule; Chapter 27 We Care About Those Who Care About Us; Chapter 28 As Nice, Polite, and Motivated as YOU?; Chapter 29 Unmask the Mask; Chapter 30 Don't Let the Mood Brood; Chapter 31 Who's the Most Positive?; Chapter 32 Become Interested in Their Interests; Chapter 33 A Favor as a Lifesaver; Chapter 34 Admit Your Mistakes; Chapter 35 Seeing Eye to Eye; Chapter 36 Bell-to-Bell Teaching; Chapter 37 Smile, Smile, Smile!; Chapter 38 Teaching With Urgency; Chapter 39 Make it Doable and Chewable; Chapter 40 Brag About Them to Others; Chapter 41 The Diversion Excursion; Chapter 42 Change the Way They Think; Chapter 43 Nip It in the Bud; Chapter 44 Discover the Beams of Their Dreams; Chapter 45 Work that Body Language!; Chapter 46 No Rest for the Weary; Chapter 47 A Little Guilt Trip Goes a Long Way; Chapter 48 Teach Them to Cope or They'll Create a Way!; Chapter 49 Listen, Listen, Listen!; Chapter 50 Only a Fool Loses His Cool;

Editorial Reviews

"A great resource for teachers, not to be read once and put away, but to be used as a desk-reference for a student-centered classroom."
—Eve Ford, Director of Student Success Initiatives, Hallsville Independent School District, TX

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