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

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 and Defining Behavioral Skill Priorities
Chapter 2: Teaching and Modeling
Chapter 3: Measuring Student Success, Providing Feedback, and Differentiating in Tier 1
Chapter 4: If It's Predictable, It's Preventable: Considerations for Tiers 2 and 3
Chapter 5: Predictable Challenges and Considerations for Implementation
Epilogue
Appendix
References and Resources

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.