school discipline

"With its new focus on younger students and special tools for handling "strong-willed" children, this edition offers schoolteachers the tools they need to gain control of their classrooms--respectfully and effectively."--back cover.

Provides strategies for addressing and preventing misbehavior and disruptive conduct in the classroom and includes assessment tools, guidelines for creating intervention plans, forms, and other resources.

A teacher's encyclopedia for helping students learn to behave more responsibly, including one hundred common classroom problems and five hundred model plans.

Offers teachers of grades six through twelve effective strategies for dealing with discipline problems and classroom-management issues, with suggestions for controlling the classroom, dealing with discipline problems immediately, using peer pressure to improve behavior, and understanding students' motivations.

Provides an introduction to narrative therapy practices and perspectives to educators as a method for establishing a school culture that discourages bullying and disrespect by teaching students compassion, responsibility, and how to work together.

Describes strategies educators can use to prevent and effectively respond to problem behavior in kindergarten through high school classrooms, and includes reproducible checklists, assessment tools, and planning forms.