<p>This guide includes straightforward, feasible, and evidence-based strategies designed to prevent behavior problems in K-5 classrooms and encourages teachers to be proactive in classroom management. Its emphasis on preventing behavior problems before they occur enables teachers to run their classrooms more efficiently and experience less frustration, while also increasing students learning. Chapters are devoted to organization and structure, effective instruction, prevention and intervention techniques, responding to student misbehavior and relationship building. Using real-life classroom scenarios, this guide equips teachers with management techniques that break the common cycle of frustration, aggression, rejection, and hostility, so they can create positive classroom environments. </p>

A Teacher's Guide to Preventing Behavior Problems in the Elementary Classroom

Education & Teaching

Yell, Mitchell L.

Smith Ph.D., Stephen W.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

<p>This research-proven text provides a comprehensive and practical approach for teaching elementary school students to use social problem solving to self-manage their behavior. Social problem solving offers a comprehensive approach to managing student social conflict and teaching self-management of behavior to students at a critical developmental stage. Its value is that it describes an approach for teachers and other school professionals to use with practical and easy-to-implement ideas of how to incorporate the problem-solving process in regular or special education classrooms, small groups, or individual counseling sessions. Stephen W. Smith is a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Florida, teaching courses on classroom and behavior ma</p>

Managing Difficult Behaviors Through Problem-Solving Instruction: Strategies for the Elementary Classroom

Business & Money

Daunic Ph.D., Ann P.

Management & Leadership

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