Changing Student Behavior: Comprehensive Learning and Interventions for Correcting Kids - Softcover

Scannella, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578867088 ISBN 13: 9781578867080

Publisher: R&L Education, 2007

Synopsis

Success in school discipline goes to the most astute and flexible-minded, the best prepared and proactive people. CLICK (Comprehensive Learning and Interventions for Correcting Kids) will teach educators how to create the most effective school and classroom disciplinary program possible and, in the process, catapult students to a new level of self-discipline and respect. Readers will learn: -The easiest way to reduce defiant behavior. -How to use behavior clues to determine types of disciplinary strategies. -How to structure classrooms so students feel some ownership and control of what goes on. -The best way to get students to pay attention_all the time. -A powerful communication model to curb most classroom conflicts. -The strategies of behavioral engineering. -How to gain trust and rapport instantly_with any student, any person. -What an effective support system looks like. -How to write expectations for good behavior. Seven more reasons to learn about CLICK: -Create a school where all students can learn and all teachers can teach_without disruption of fear. -Discover the smartest ways to deal with student problems. -Greatly improve school climate. -Think about student discipline in new ways, so you always and instinctively maximize your responses. -Create self-assurance in students and staff. -Experience a new freedom from worry. -Empower students so they reach their full potential socially and personally.

About this title

About the Author

Anthony Scannella is presently Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Educational Administration, Inc. (FEA). Prior to this, Dr. Scannella served as a successful principal, assistant principal, director of curriculum, and teacher.

Review

A concise and enormously powerful program on discipline and classroom management, CLICK is a useful handbook and a valuable resource for all educators. (Willa Spicer Ed.D, deputy commissioner of education, New Jersey Department of Education)

...when you are setting up a school-wide discipline program, CLICK will ensure that you do so effectively. This book is filled with practice-based suggestions and activities. A must read for all administrators and teachers. (Chris Carlson, assistant superintendent, Plumsted Public Schools, New Jersey)

Changing Student Behavior: Comprehensive Learning and Interventions for Correcting Kids provides a powerful and practical guide for empowering teachers to nurture positive, respectful, and cooperative partnerships with students. In particular, the chapter on the defiant child provides insight into working with students who depict disruptive and unwanted behaviors, including strategies for responding to challenging behaviors while preserving the dignity of the student. CLICK is a critical resource to teachers, vice principals, and principals. (Nancy Richmond, Ed.D., author of Learning to Lead: Ten Stories for Principals)

About this edition

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1578867088
• ISBN 13: 9781578867080
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92