1st Edition

75 Quick and Easy Solutions to Common Classroom Disruptions

By Bryan Harris, Cassandra Goldberg Copyright 2012
    112 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    112 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    This very well organized book is packed with practical solutions to the most common classroom problems – side talk, rude behavior, calling out, students losing focus, and students refusing even to try. Every solution is classroom-tested, highly effective, and quick and easy to implement! Use this book to help make your classroom a happier, more productive learning environment – one in which your students thrive and everyone benefits!

    A Head Start
    Advance Organizers
    Apologize
    Attention Signal
    Audio Recording
    Be Brief, Be Positive, Be Gone
    Be the Model
    Bean Bag
    Behavior Contracts
    Behavior Tracking
    Check-In Statements
    Checklists
    Choice of Order
    Chunk Tasks
    Clear Directions
    Closed Fist
    Color Codes
    Communicate with Home
    Compliment and Congratulations
    Concrete Reminders
    Course Evaluation
    Describe the Request
    Eliminate Distractions
    Energizers
    Engaging Frames
    Extend an Invitation
    Eye Contact
    5-Minute Focus Group
    Focus on Process
    Give a Gift
    Give a Job
    Graph the Results
    Greet and Read
    Headphones
    Humor
    I Messages
    If-Then Statements
    Increase Feedback
    Learn to Ignore
    Likely Before Unlikely
    Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like
    Minimize Anxiety
    Offer the Door
    Personal Goals
    Photographic Evidence
    Planted Questions
    Positive Self-Talk
    Private Office
    Proximity
    Questions of Concern
    Ramp Up Relevance
    Rating Scales
    Right to Pass
    Secret Signal
    Sentence Starters
    SLANT
    Smile
    Solicit Good Intentions
    Special Seating
    Specific Time Frames
    Sponge Activities
    Stand and Stretch
    Start Statements
    Start Strong, End Strong
    Stories
    Talking Chips
    Teacher-Approved Toys
    Teaching Spot
    Thanks in Advance
    Three More Minutes, and...
    Track the Lesson
    Traffic Light
    2 x 10 Method
    Victory List
    What You Could Have Said Was

    Biography

    Bryan Harris, Cassandra Goldberg