Julie Causton and Kate MacLeod provide heartfelt and compassionate strategies to help teachers work with students who exhibit challenging behavior.

When stress from testing, problems from home, and lack of motivation affect your students' positive attitudes toward learning, you need practices to buffer against these factors' negative effects. This ASCD Arias(R) publication comes to your rescue with classroom-tested strategies, routines, and rituals to help you create a supportive learning environment. Drawing from positive psychology research, educator Joan Young describes High-impact changes you can make to engage students and transform their school experience. How to foster humor, curiosity, resilience, and gratitude in the classroom. Practical tips you can use to inspire and empower students every day. Lots of examples are included to help you create a positive classroom culture and increase student learning.

Positive student behaviors are desired outcomes, but this manual concentrates on inputs. How do you respond to difficult behavior in the moment when you know that punitive, compliance-based behavior management is so often ineffectual? What's the best way to prevent students from acting out in the first place? The path to success requires behavioral leadership, in which teachers strategically model and affirm the behaviors they want to see in students. Behavior expert Scott Ervin calls on his two decades of experience to share the most effective procedures and strategies to foster positive, prosocial student behavior that supports learning, including ways to * Organize your physical classroom to support positive classroom management. * Build positive teacher-student relationships. * Share control with students in a way that best fosters their autonomy. The Classroom Behavior Manual is a resource you can return to again and again, packed with more than 100 strategies and dozens of procedures and tools. Learn how to respond to negative behaviors in nonpunitive ways so that you can ensure all students' school days are as calm, engaging, and educational as they possibly can be.

Teachers today must prepare students for an increasingly complex, interconnected, and interdependent world. Being a globally competent teacher requires embracing a mindset that translates personal global competence into professional classroom practice. It is a vision of equitable teaching and learning that enables students to thrive in an ever-changing world. This thought-provoking book introduces a proven self-reflection tool to help educators of all grade levels and content areas develop 12 elements of such teaching. The book is divided into three sections: dispositions, knowledge, and skills. Each chapter is devoted to an element of globally competent teaching and includes a description of that element, tips for implementation delineated by developmental levels, and links to additional resources for continuing the journey. Examples of globally competent teaching practices include - Empathy and valuing multiple perspectives. - A commitment to promoting equity worldwide. - An understanding of global conditions and current events. - The ability to engage in intercultural communication. - A classroom environment that values diversity and global engagement. Throughout, you'll also find examples of these practices at work from real teachers in real schools. No matter what your experience with global teaching, the information in this book will help you further develop your practice as a global educator—a teacher who prepares students not only for academic success but also for a life in which they are active participants in their own communities and the wider world.

In this galvanizing book for all educators, Kristin Souers and Pete Hall explore an urgent and growing issue--childhood trauma--and its profound effect on learning and teaching. Grounded in research and the authors' experience working with trauma-affected students and their teachers, Fostering Resilient Learners will help you cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings. The authors--a mental health therapist and a veteran principal--provide proven, reliable strategies to help you * Understand what trauma is and how it hinders the learning, motivation, and success of all students in the classroom. * Build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels. * Adopt a strengths-based approach that leads you to recalibrate how you view destructive student behaviors and to perceive what students need to break negative cycles. * Head off frustration and burnout with essential self-care techniques that will help you and your students flourish. Each chapter also includes questions and exercises to encourage reflection and extension of the ideas in this book. As an educator, you face the impact of trauma in the classroom every day. Let this book be your guide to seeking solutions rather than dwelling on problems, to building relationships that allow students to grow, thrive, and--most assuredly--learn at high levels.

Public behavior management in the classroom relies on peer pressure and embarrassment to control student actions, which over time does more harm than good. In this quick reference guide, Dominique Smith, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Lee Ann Jung offer three key techniques to shift your classroom management style from punitive to positive:* Establish intentional practices to foster a classroom community.* Maintain a healthy emotional climate through dialogue, goal setting, and self-assessment.* Restore relationships through communication and reflection.Better Behavior Practices provides strategies to help students understand how their actions affect others and how to monitor their emotions and reactions. Through positive behavior practices, you can build a cohesive and productive classroom culture that engages and supports all students.8.5" x 11" 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

Provides an approach to classroom management that deals with accepting teenage students as they are and recognizing what they need: a connection with the curriculum; a sense of order; and most essentially, a sense that someone cares.