What to Do With the Kid Who. . .: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline, and Responsibility in the Classroom

Formerly a SkyLight publication

Do you know the kid who never listens, or the kid who is disruptive, or the kid who incites conflict? Of course, you do. All educators have encountered "the kid who. . . .".

In this second edition of What to Do With the Kid Who. . .: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline, and Responsibility in the Classroom, Kay Burke, a nationally recognized educator and teacher trainer, offers both new and veteran teachers updated strategies to meet the critical challenges of today′s diverse classrooms and the unique needs of their students. This excellent resource features the latest research on classroom management, violence prevention, emotional intelligence, inclusion, and cooperative learning, and provides more than 200 specific teaching strategies to help students regulate their own behavior, resolve their own conflicts, and celebrate their own learning.

Kay Burke has served as an award-winning classroom teacher and a school administrator, university instructor, and international professional developer. She works with Kay Burke & Associates, LLC, to provide workshops for teachers and administrators in standards-based learning, performance assessment, classroom management, mentoring, and portfolio development. For the past 18 years, Burke has presented at state and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NAESP, NASSP, NMSA, and IRA as well as international conferences in Canada and Australia. She is the author of 10 professional development books and coauthor of a college textbook on assessment. Corwin Press published Burke′s best-selling From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K–8 (2006), a 2007 finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing presented by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other books published by Corwin Press include How to Assess Authentic Learning, Fourth Edition (2005) and What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom (Third Edition).