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Eight Steps to Classroom Management Success
A Guide for Teachers of Challenging Students



November 2012 | 184 pages | Corwin
A step-by-step approach to managing your challenging students!

An effective classroom management plan will help teachers engage most of their students, but every classroom has one or two students with more challenging behavioural issues that often require a significant amount of an educator's time. This jargon-free, easy-to-read book guides teachers through the process of helping these students become positive, contributing learners.

Based on sound psychological principles and more than 10 years of empirical evidence, this resource provides general and special education teachers with an eight-step plan for responding to challenging behaviours, including:

- Giving simple instructions

- Using appropriate warnings

- Handling tantrums

- Creating behavioural contracts

- Managing transitions

- Preventing disruptions

- Improving behaviour outside the classroom

- Developing effective homework routines

Filled with suggestions for adapting each of the steps and practical examples that illustrate potential problems that may arise during the interventions, 8 Steps to Classroom Management Success offers a coherent system for creating a positive learning environment for all students.

 
Foreword by Margaret Alvarez, PsyD, MSCP, MS IV
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Introduction: Why Do Students Misbehave?
 
Prologue: Prepare Yourself
 
Step 1: Give Effective Single-Action Commands
 
Step 2: Give Effective Warnings
 
Step 3: Handle Flare-Ups and Tantrums
 
Step 4: Construct a Behavioral Contract
 
Step 5: Manage Transitions
 
Step 6: Discourage Interruptions
 
Step 7: Improve Behaviors in Out-of-Class Settings
 
Step 8: Develop an Effective Homework Routine
 
Conclusion: Maximize the Improvement With Additional Techniques
 
References

“This book gives readers the tools needed to create a positive learning environment for everyone in the classroom, including themselves, thus making them more effective educators.”

Deborah D. Therriault, Teacher
Clarkston High School, MI

"Provides easy-to-follow techniques that can be incorporated into any K-12 classroom.”

Pamela L. Opel, Science Curriculum Specialist
Gulfport School District, MS

"Kapalka’s 8 steps foster academic, behavioral, and social success and provides teachers and students with a purposeful and systematic plan to meet the needs of complex and challenging behaviors. When put into practice, the 8 steps establish a climate of accountability and possibility. This book is also a great resource for intervention and referral services (I&RS) teams and for districts looking to expand their Response to Intervention (RTI) models.”

Karen C. Filkin, Inclusion Facilitator
Lakewood Public Schools, NJ

"Kapalka presents, in a very clear format, scenarios of difficult cases that educators often encounter. The book introduces a new approach that looks at both sides of the equation: educators who deliver the intervention and students who receive it. This is an easy-to-read manual that makes for quick referencing. Keep a copy by your desk.”

Maria Barresi-Devore, Consulting Psychologist

"Kapalka’s book is a comprehensive, practical approach to dealing with many of the behavioral issues a teacher will face. Kapalka not only offers time-tested and research-based information in an applicable format, he also gives some of the latest techniques that can be quickly applied to difficult behaviors within the classroom setting.”

Brett J. Novick, Elementary School Social Worker

“This is a practical, straightforward, ready-to-use 'cookbook' to manage typical classroom misbehaviors. It helps the educator understand the rationale of the behavior as well as how to deal with it. Following the steps in sequence results in a win-win situation, with both the teacher and the student saving face and maintaining integrity.”

Marilyn Gonyo, President
Education Assessment Center

"Kapalka’s book offers a focused, concise, and straightforward approach to classroom management that will be welcomed by time-starved teachers, school psychologists, and others who deal daily with classroom behavior."

Kent E. Rude, Certified School Psychologist

"The author gives helpful ways of fine tuning what teachers already practice on a daily basis. The idea that Kapalka presents—that it’s not about the teacher, but about the student—is a concept that enables teachers to become more focused on the ultimate success of their students. ”

Bessie Finger, Psychiatric Teacher Counselor
Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute, Nashville, TN

“The author has skillfully described specific techniques that benefit the teacher in managing the classroom, while emphasizing the importance of nurturing the attributes necessary for healthy growth and development in learning for challenging students.”

Danielle Monti Pfeiffer, Student Assistance Counselor
Ocean Township High School, Ridgewood, NJ

George M. Kapalka

George Kapalka is a board-certified clinical psychologist, a licensed mental health counselor, and a certified school psychologist. He holds additional board certifications in child mental health services, learning disabilities, and psychopharmacology. For over 20 years, he is an active clinician who primarily treats children and adolescents with problem behaviors. In addition, he is associate professor of psychological counseling at Monmouth University (a graduate faculty appointment) and is a member of medical staff at Meridian Health Systems where he trains physicians and nurses about the diagnosis and treatment of children with ADHD... More About Author

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ISBN: 9781412969444
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