1st Edition

50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges (Study Guide)

By Annette Breaux, Todd Whitaker Copyright 2010
    160 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    Written to accompany 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior: Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges by Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker, this Study Guide was written for the participants of seminars, book study groups, and other professional development events. This Study Guide serves as a roadmap to help you organize and work with your faculty study group. It provides assistance to staff developers, principals, team leaders, college professors, and other educational leaders who are working with teachers as they develop their professional skills.

    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    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. Believein 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. Ethusiasm 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. A 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!
    50. Only a Fool Loses His Cool

    Biography

    Annette Breaux, Todd Whitaker