Motivating Defiant and Disruptive Students to Learn: Positive Classroom Management Strategies

Today′s teachers face more challenges than ever before in managing student behavior in the classroom. New teachers often find themselves underprepared for the realities of hard-to-engage students and increased class size. Rich Korb brings extensive teaching and administrative experience to his collection of strategies designed to keep you and your students focused on learning. This accessible, step-by-step guide for new and veteran teachers offers easy-to-implement methods that help you:

• Motivate and engage students
• Set up your classroom to prevent disruptive behavior
• Stay calm in the face of adverse situations
• Reduce the effect of misbehavior on other students′ learning
• Respond to inappropriate behavior effectively
• Avoid burning out

This powerful staff development program is filled with strategies you can read today and apply tomorrow. They have been classroom tested and praised by teachers looking for guidance when they wanted to scream, yell, or cry. This book will reignite your love of teaching as you reap the rewards of a well-managed classroom.

Rich Korb has thirty-three years of educational experience as a successful educator and consultant working with difficult and at-risk students. He has taught both general and special education at all levels and has served as Youth Ranch Director of Education for delinquent youth.

His experience in working with difficult and defiant students has led him to develop a wealth of practical ideas that teachers and administrators can put to use immediately. He knows what works and what doesn’t work when dealing with disruptive and defiant students.

Rich is also a sought-after presenter, and author of Motivating Defiant and Disruptive Students to Learn, Powerful Strategies for Working Effectively with Difficult, Noncompliant Students, and Accelerating Achievement Through Purposeful Assessment.

Rich is an adjunct faculty member for Seattle Pacific University and Brandman University Chapman University Systems, where he teaches a course in how to work with defiant and disruptive students.