Teaching behavior: Managing classrooms through effective teaching

Teaching behavior: Managing classrooms through effective teaching offers 296 pages of guidance for teachers who want to do more than just react to behaviors. Written by a professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville, the book includes thoughts on why instruction is the foundation for all student behavior. It offers tools for managing all types of students and classrooms including self-assessment checklists and discussion questions and more.

The book is written in three sections: Behavior and Instruction, The Daily Grind, and Individualized Strategies. In the first section, best practices for effective instruction are covered along with thoughts on behavior and its purposes. The second section covers classroom arrangements and planning for and presenting instruction along with providing consequences for behavior while the third section offers strategies for monitoring behavior and for handling students with more serious behavior issues. Each chapter begins with discussion questions to set the tone and content. Within each chapter, the author offers short lists of further readings for follow-up research after important points.

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The making friends program: Supporting acceptance in your K-2 classroom

"Perfect for K–2 classrooms, this book presents the field-tested, research-based Making Friends program, a toolbox of adaptable, practical strategies that fit right into your regular school day. You'll help students respect and accept each other's differences through three methods: 1) reading diversity-themed stories and conducting brief whole-class discussions; 2) forming small learning groups that encourage children from diverse backgrounds to play and interact; and 3) sharing the storybooks you read with families so they can continue discussions at home." -publisher

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Supporting behavior for school success: A step-by-step guide to key strategies

Supporting behavior for school success: A step-by-step guide to key strategies is "designed for busy teachers and other school-based professionals. This book presents step-by-step guidelines for implementing seven highly effective strategies to improve classroom management and instructional delivery. These key low-intensity strategies are grounded in the principles of positive behavior intervention and support (PBIS), and are easy to integrate into routine teaching practice." -publisher

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Learning disabilities and challenging behaviors

In this third edition of Learning disabilities and challenging behaviors: Using the building blocks model to guide intervention and classroom management, learn how students in Grades K–12 struggling with social and academic skills can develop the competence and confidence they need to succeed. "Reliable, up-to-date research makes this a perfect preservice textbook, and the classroom-ready strategies are a lifeline for in-service teachers as they work toward better outcomes for struggling students." -publisher

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Managing the cycle of acting-out behavior in the classroom

Got students who are acting-out in the classroom? Managing the cycle of acting-out behavior in the classroom can help. This latest edition of the book offers insights into new research in applied behavior analysis, tips on instruction, and functional behavioral assessment to help you with interventions. It includes case studies, checklists, tools, and more.

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Classwide positive behavior interventions and supports

Classwide positive behavior interventions and supports shows how to implement positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) in K-12 classrooms, regardless of whether PBIS is adopted schoolwide. The primary focus is universal (Tier 1) support for all students. Practical, step-by-step guidelines are provided for structuring the classroom environment, actively engaging students in instruction, teaching positive expectations, and establishing a continuum of strategies to reinforce positive behavior and respond to inappropriate behavior.

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Push to Open

Push To Open offers a proactive planning guide to help general education teachers understand some of the most critical characteristics of autism, and plan their classroom environment and teaching methods to avoid pitfalls that can occur around sensory, communication, social and instructional issues. Push to Open provides no-nonsense, practical guidance to make life easier and outcomes better for teachers and students.

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Everyday Classroom Strategies and Practices for Supporting Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Everyday Classroom Strategies and Practices for Supporting Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders provides a practical approach to working with students on the spectrum. It helps to demystify the processes needed to help these students succeed and gives teachers the supports to plan appropriately for them. This resource clearly communicates how to create a classroom in which every learner succeeds with specific and easy-to-implement strategies for students who require minimal supports as well as those who require more intensive interventions.

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Mobile App Monday - Teacher Tools-Who's Next?

Do the same one or two hands always pop up when you ask a question in your classroom? The Teacher Tools - Who's Next? app will shake things up for your class by allowing you to call on students randomly and even create randomized work groups!

- Makes all students in the class accountable for the lesson information at all times.
- Eliminates any possible bias; no students will be called on too little or too much.
- Saves time when splitting class into groups for assignments.
- Helps with classroom management by not allowing students to pick their own groups.
- And more!

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