Discipline and Learning Styles: An Educator's Guide - Softcover

Haggart, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935340859 ISBN 13: 9781935340850

Publisher: Worthy/Customworthy, 2011

Synopsis

Enhance Your Effectiveness as a Teacher and Gain a Fresh Perspective on Discipline!

Have you struggled to find an approach to discipline that works with all of your students? Discipline and Learning Styles: An Educator's Guide is a handbook for K-12 teachers that explains in detail the connection between discipline and sensory learning styles. You'll learn practical strategies for:

Teaching students in the ways they learn best.

Avoiding conflicts before they disrupt your class.

Establishing and teaching rules that gain students cooperation.

Delivering warnings or reprimands in the most effective ways.

Choosing consequences that promote positive behavior.

Its succinct charts and tables make this an ideal resource for quick reference. At a glance, you can find out what "engaged behavior" looks like for each learning style, what typical misbehaviors you can expect from each style, and how different styles respond to rules and react to consequences.

About this title

About the Author

A nationally known author, program designer, trainer, and consultant in the field of education, William Haggart offers extensive experience and a passionate, eclectic approach to enhancing educator effectiveness and student success.Haggart was a classroom teacher for 14 years at a traditional high school and at a correctional facility. During that time, he devoted himself to finding practical applications for the explosion of learning research and theory that was taking place. His success inspired him to share the discoveries he made, and he has since authored several books and articles on learning, classroom management, leadership, professional practice, and learning styles.In addition, Haggart has worked with hundreds of schools and over 50,000 educators and parents nationwide. He founded Insights and Innovations, a group of seasoned consultants/educators dedicated to emphasizing the role of the learning process in staff development. Over the years, the need for school wide change has expanded the group's focus to include a wide range of organizational topics and key staff skills.When he saw the need for a user-friendly, meaningful learning styles inventory, Haggart created The Kaleidoscope Profile® for Performance Learning Systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Worthy/Customworthy
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935340859
• ISBN 13: 9781935340850
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 94