Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Positive Approach to Behavior Management, Second Edition with DVD - Softcover

Sprick, Randall S., Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470422262 ISBN 13: 9780470422267

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 2008

Synopsis

A teacher's success throughout the school year is largely determined by the events of the first few weeks of school. In his highly successful book Discipline in the Secondary Classroom (more than 100,000 copies sold), classroom management guru Randall Sprick offers practical strategies for beginning the school year, organizing the classroom for success, and establishing rules and behavior expectations for students. He also provides scores of helpful tips gathered from successful classroom teachers or gleaned from the latest educational research.

Discipline in the Secondary Classroom is a treasure-trove of practical advice, tips, checklists, reproducibles, posters, and ready-to-use activities that will save teachers time and help them become more effective educators.

Both new and seasoned teachers will find this book invaluable for designing a management plan that prevents problems, motivates students, and teaches them to behave responsibly. Discipline in the Secondary Classroom includes nine chapters that cover everything from creating a vision for classroom behavior to modifying a student behavior plan as the school year progresses. Also included is a DVD featuring Dr. Sprick teaching two core topics from within the book:

• How to finalize your classroom management plan and communicate it to students
• How to reinforce positive behavior in students rather than react to negative behavior

About this title

From the Inside Flap

This practical resource gives teachers techniques for dealing immediately with classroom behavior problems and developing more effective discipline policies and procedures over time. Included are dozens of useful management forms, letters, and record sheets, plus a quick and easy guide to solving 42 specific misbehaviors.

Improving discipline procedures
The first nine chapters provide step-by-step procedures for setting up classroom management system to teach even the most disruptive students to become more self-disciplined and cooperative. Here's just an overview of each chapter:

Beginning a New Semester gives you a seven-step planning process to help clarity your expectations for students and develop a clear, consistent discipline procedure right from the start...including a Student Information Form for students to work on when they first enter the classroom.

Effective Grading Systems describes the features o fan effective system and details procedures for designing one of your own...including a Weekly Record Sheet for recording performance each day and a chart showing Point Values and Criteria for Specific Performance Points.

Teacher-Student Interactions provides ways to evaluate and modify the interactions you are having with students...including a helpful Monitoring Form.

Goal Setting give you strategies for working with students to pinpoint specific goals and responsibilities to be achieved...including Goal-Setting Forms for students with specific behavior problems.

Class-wide Motivational Systems illustrates three reinforcement systems that help improve the behavior and motivation of all students and give you steps for implementing such a system in your own classroom...including a filled-in sample Weekly Record Sheet showing behavior needing improvement.

The High-risk students gives you steps for designing an individualized motivational system for a problem student...including a Daily Report Card and Behavioral Contract.

Punishment consequences exposes some common misconceptions about punishment and provides guidelines for using consequences effectively to reduce misbehavior.

Classroom consequences offers a variety of consequences and procedures you can use as alternatives to sending students to the office...including a Behavioral Improvement Form for cases when a verbal reprimand is not sufficient.

School-Wide Discipline Policies outlines features of a comprehensive school discipline policy...including an Office Referral Form, a Student Referral Record, and a Record of Teacher Referrals

Troubleshooting specific problems.

And the final section of this unique "survival guide" provides techniques for dealing with 42 commonly encountered problems in the secondary classroom...including a description of each problem, contributing factors, and problem solving steps.

Here you'll find ready-to-use plans for responding effectively to problems such as:

• Talking during lectures
• Forgetting to bring books to class
• Fighting
• Not completing homework
• Threatening to commit suicide
• Making wisecracks
• Feeling
• "Picked-on" by the teacher

The techniques in this section are designed to be immediately useful in the classroom, while the entire book may be used chapter-by-chapter for long-term improvement in student discipline and motivation.

From the Back Cover

DISCIPLINE IN THESECONDARY CLASSROOM

SECOND EDITION WITH DVD

Discipline and lack of motivation are two of the most vexing problems facing teachers today. This book from classroom management and discipline expert Randall S. Sprick gives high school teachers step-by-step guidance for designing a behavior management plan that helps prevent misbehavior and increases student motivation. This hands-on resource contains easy-to-implement strategies distilled from a research-based approach that is proactive, instructional, positive, and effective.

Discipline in the Secondary Classroom, Second Edition is equally useful to new and seasoned teachers and contains helpful forms, samples, and evaluation tools that allow educators to continually fine-tune their management plan to reach more students. The book includes nine chapters covering everything from creating a vision for classroom behavior to responding to misbehavior calmly and consistently.

• Vision: Understand Key Concepts about ManagingStudent Behavior

• Grading: Design Instruction and Evaluation Systems

• Organization: Prepare Routines and Procedures

• Expectations: Plan to Teach Students How toBe Successful

• Rules and Consequences: Plan to RespondConsistently to Student Misbehavior

• Motivation: Enhance Students' Desire to Succeed

• Preparation and Launch: Pull It All Together forthe First Day

• Implementation: Monitor and Adjust Your PlanThroughout the Year

• Proactive Planning for Chronic Misbehavior

Using these tested methods of behavior management, teachers will learn how to offer meaningful, constructive feedback and build positive relationships without losing any level of authority.

THE COMPANION DVD includes video lessons from Dr. Sprick on how to reinforce positive behavior and finalize your classroom management plan. Also included are scores of downloadable forms, checklists, and self-assessments.

PRAISE FORDISCIPLINE IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM

"With practical and proactive strategies for motivating reluctant students, preventing potential classroom disruptions, and managing challenging behavior, this is an invaluable tool for both beginning and 'seasoned' high school teachers."
—Carolyn Novelly, resource teacher and behavior coach, Duval County Public Schools, Jacksonville, Florida

"An extraordinary resource?This readable book is written with passion, vivid examples, and countless practical suggestions that can be readily implemented."
—From the Foreword by Donald D. Deshler, director, University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470422262
• ISBN 13: 9780470422267
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 286