Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum -- An RTI Approach for Nurturing Essential Life Skills (Transform Your Differentiated Instruction, Assessment, and Behavior-Management Strategies) - Softcover

Chris Weber

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943874328 ISBN 13: 9781943874323

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2018

Synopsis

To fully prepare students for college, careers, and life, it is essential for educators to nurture students' behavioral skills along with their academic skills. With Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum, you will learn how to employ the most effective behavioral and social skills activities for your particular class and form unique relationships with each and every learner. Through this personalized classroom behavior-management approach, you can anticipate potential problem areas and confidently respond to students in need of intensive and differentiated supports.

Use behavior-management strategies based on response to intervention to:

• Understand the importance of communicating the why of behavioral learning to students.
• Identify and define the behavioral skills that will most benefit your students.
• Model and teach behavioral skills simultaneously with academic skills.
• Learn how and when to employ behavioral system supports across all three RTI tiers (MTSS).
• Implement formative assessment and other tools for measuring behavioral-skill development and success.
• Hear from educators who have successfully applied behavioral-skill teaching in their classroom-management strategies.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Identifying, Defining, and Making Sense of Behavioral Skills
Chapter 2: Modeling, Teaching, and Nurturing Behavioral Skills
Chapter 3: Measuring Student Success, Providing Differentiated Supports, and Intervening Appropriately
Chapter 4: Preparing for Tiers 2 and 3 Behavioral Supports
Chapter 5: Navigating the Predictable Challenges and Considerations for Implementation
Epilogue
Appendix A: Functional Behavioral Analysis
Appendix B: Behavior Support Plan
References and Resources

About this title

About the Author

Chris Weber is an expert in behavior, mathematics, and response to intervention (RTI) who consults and presents internationally. As a principal and assistant superintendent in California and Illinois, Chris and his colleagues developed RTI systems that have led to high levels of learning at schools across the United States.

In addition to writing and consulting, he continues to work with teachers and students within schools and school districts across Canada and the United States.

A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Chris flew C-141s during his military career. He holds a master's degree from California State University, San Marcos, and a doctorate of education from the University of California (Irvine and Los Angeles). He is a former high school, middle school, and elementary school teacher and administrator.

To learn more about Chris's work, visit chriswebereducation.com or follow him on Twitter @WeberEducation.

To book Chris Weber for professional development, contact pd@SolutionTree.com.

Review

"Chris Weber's six steps of behavioral RTI are clear, concise, and easy to implement, and every educator will benefit from the explicit instruction and subtle integration of specific behavioral skills into their instructional framework. This is a sure formula for enriching the lives and relationships of both students and teachers."

--Hector Montenegro, senior district advisor, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

"Utilizing his years of experience implementing RTI and MTSS in schools across the country, Weber masterfully lays out a road map to help districts develop the whole child. This book will truly assist educators in creating students with the skills to navigate the obstacles and opportunities in store for them, both inside and outside the classroom."

--Greg Wolcott, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning, Woodridge School District 68, Illinois

"If a student lacks a basic academic skill, any educator would commit to meet the student at his or her current entry point and structure the learning from there. Why, then, does a different approach emerge when the gap is in a basic behavioral skill? In Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum, Chris Weber outlines six core steps all educators can follow to ensure behavioral and academic gaps are addressed in a similar fashion."

--Tom Hierck, educational consultant, motivational speaker, and author of Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment in Your Classroom

"Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum promises to help us, as educators, nurture life skills in our students--and that is exactly what it does! Chris Weber's student-centered approach is both invigorating and inspiring. A breath of fresh air for RTI!"

--Carla Tantillo, author, speaker, and founder of Mindful Practices

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1943874328
• ISBN 13: 9781943874323
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 186