Book Description

This book provides in great detail proven and tested methods for teachers to use to be successful in their behavior management and instructional efforts. It provides teachers with all the necessary strategies they need for maintaining and increasing appropriate behaviors as well as for preventing and remediating inappropriate behaviors. Teachers can select from hundreds of suggestions and approaches, all based on real classroom examples, about how to manage, motivate, and teach students of all ages, ability levels, and motivational levels. The contents of this text reflect the authors’ nearly three decades of experience in the field of education as elementary and special education teachers and supervisors, teacher educators, educational consultants, re-searchers, and as the authors of numerous articles and eight other texts. Their experiences led to the purposeful design of this text’s layout and content; namely, that teachers at all grade levels need assistance that is straightforward, easy to implement, and realistic for the variety of classroom settings and problem behaviors with which they are confronted. The text content is largely drawn from eclectic, research-based as well as common sense and practical knowledge bases, and the text is “reader-friendly” and replete with easy-to-implement, concrete, specific suggestions. Additionally, each chapter has a summary of key concepts, and references for additional reading are provided for each chapter and for the text as a whole. Each chapter also contains suggested activities and assignments that instructors can use with their students. The comprehensive index also allows readers to instantly access content and solutions as needed.