50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior: Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges

Annette L. Breaux, Todd Whitaker

Eye On Education, 2010 - Classroom management - 130 pages

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

Contents

• Meet and Greet: 1
• A Letter of Introduction: 4
• Tools for Rules and Procedures: 7
• Are You All Right?: 11
• Stay Near Dear: 14
• Believe in Them: 16
• Meting Out the Seating: 19
• Happy Notes to Parents: 22
• Their Own Notes to Parents: 24
• Make Them Responsible: 27
• Stress Success Not Duress: 29
• Enthusiasm Breeds Enthusiasm: 32
• Pry for Why: 34
• A Laugh is Half: 36
• Student or Teaching Problem?: 39
• Learn What to Overlook: 43
• If You Sweat They Win: 45
• Defuse the Bully: 48
• Hold Private Practice Sessions: 51
• Speak Awfully Softly: 53
• Teaching in Small Bites Makes Them Hungrier: 56
• Saving Gotcha for Behaving: 59
• Find the Gleaming and Redeeming: 62
• Join the Ranks of Thanks: 64
• Humiliation Breeds Retaliation: 67
• Beware the 9010 Rule: 70
• We Care About Those Who Care About Us: 73
• As Nice Polite and Motivated as YOU?: 75
• Unmask the Mask: 77
• Dont Let the Mood Brood: 79
• Whos the Most Positive?: 81
• Become Interested in Their Interests: 83
• A Favor as a Lifesaver: 86
• Admit Your Mistakes: 89
• Seeing Eye to Eye: 91
• BelltoBell Teaching: 93
• Smile Smile Smile: 96
• Teaching with Urgency: 98
• Make it Doable and Chewable: 100
• Brag About Them to Others: 102
• The Diversion Excursion: 104
• Change the Way They Think: 106
• Nip It in the Bud: 108
• Discover the Beams of Their Dreams: 110
• Work that Body Language: 112
• No Rest for the Weary: 115
• A Little Guilt Trip Goes a Long Way: 117
• Teach Them to Cope or Theyll Create a Way: 120
• Listen Listen Listen: 123
• Only a Fool Loses His Cool: 126
• Conclusion: 129
• An Invitation for Your Comments: 130

About the author

Authored by Whitaker, Todd; Breaux, Annette

Bibliographic information

• Title: 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior: Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges
• Authors: Annette L. Breaux, Todd Whitaker
• Publisher: Eye On Education, 2010
• ISBN: 1596671327, 9781596671324
• Length: 130 pages