1st Edition

Understanding Challenging Behaviour in Inclusive Classrooms

By Colin Lever Copyright 2011
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    It is no great secret that managing disruptive behaviour in any classroom, from infants to sixth form, is one of the most stressful aspects of teaching. Rules and sanctions can be effective up to a point, but often fail to take into consideration individual differences in children and the difficulties they might be experiencing in their school or home life.

    In his new book, Colin Lever uses real children’s voices to help you begin to understand why children might behave in the way that they do, offering ideas and strategies to help prevent challenging behaviour occurring in the first place.

    Whether it serves as a reference manual, a useful checklist or as an aide to help you plan and prepare for your lessons, this book should be essential reading for every teacher.

    Part 1 Creating and maintaining an inclusive classroom Chapter 1 Readability Chapter 2 Differentiation Chapter 3 Active learning Chapter 4 Classroom logistics Chapter 5 A solution-focused approach to dealing with challenging behaviour in class Chapter 6 Intervention strategies Chapter 7 Building and maintaining positive relationships with children in the classroom Chapter 8 Rewards and sanctions Part 2 Identifying and dealing with key social/ emotional and cognitive aspects of inclusion Chapter 9 Social and emotional aspects of behaviour Chapter 10 Attention Seeking Chapter 11 Anger managment Chapter 12 Self-esteem Chapter 13 Attachment Chapter 14 Bullying Chapter 15 Drugs Chapter 16 Nutrition Chapter 17 Self-harming Chapter 18 Truancy Chapter 19 English as a second language Chapter 20 Cognitive ability Chapter 21 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Chapter 22 Autism Chapter 23 Dyslexia Chapter 24 Dyspraxia Part 3 Whole-school management issues that affect the effectiveness of inclusion Chapter 25 A whole-school approach o behaviour management

    Biography

    Colin Lever