Motivating Defiant and Disruptive Students to Learn: Positive Classroom Management Strategies / Edition 1

by Richard D. Korb

Overview

How to stay calm, cool, and in control of your classroom

Today’s teachers face more challenges than ever before in managing student behavior in the classroom. Rich Korb brings extensive teaching and administrative experience to his collection of strategies designed to keep teachers and students focused on learning. This accessible, step-by-step guide offers easy-to-implement methods that help you:

• Motivate and engage students
• Set up your classroom to prevent disruptive behavior
• Stay calm in the face of adverse situations
• Reduce the effect of misbehavior on other students’ learning
• Respond to inappropriate behavior effectively
• Avoid burning out

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452205786
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/17/2012
Pages:	167
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Rich Korb has thirty-three years of educational experience as a successful educator and consultant working with difficult and at-risk students. He has taught both general and special education at all levels and has served as Youth Ranch Director of Education for delinquent youth.

His experience in working with difficult and defiant students has led him to develop a wealth of practical ideas that teachers and administrators can put to use immediately. He knows what works and what doesn’t work when dealing with disruptive and defiant students.

Rich is also a sought-after presenter, and author of Motivating Defiant and Disruptive Students to Learn, Powerful Strategies for Working Effectively with Difficult, Noncompliant Students, and Accelerating Achievement Through Purposeful Assessment.

Rich is an adjunct faculty member for Seattle Pacific University and Brandman University Chapman University Systems, where he teaches a course in how to work with defiant and disruptive students.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. Introduction to Student Motivation
2. Setting Up a Class Environment for Success
3. Behavior Improvement Strategies for Individual Students
4. Strategies for Managing Classroom Behavior
5. Academic Motivation
6. Students with Disabilities in the General Education Classroom
7. Building Winning Relationships
8. Concluding Thoughts
References and Resources
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Rich Korb has a wealth of experience in dealing with the defiant and alienated students who disrupt classes and other students’ learning. This valuable book provides strong support on important cultural changes and student behavior management that will provide an inclusive and engaging school environment for all students. "

Neil Mac Neill

"This book offers very specific ways a classroom teacher can implement behavior modifications when the school does not have a strong behavior system in place. The detailed, step-by-step methods of implementing the behavior modification provide teachers something they can read and begin using immediately. "

Michelle Strom

"Rich Korb has a wealth of experience in dealing with the defiant and alienated students who disrupt classes and other students’ learning. This valuable book provides strong support on important cultural changes and student behavior management that will provide an inclusive and engaging school environment for all students."

Neil MacNeill