This title incorporates new strategies for handling violence and inappropriate behaviour in our schools, including the implications of new technologies like mobile phones, social networking, and cyberbullying.

Techniques for Managing Verbally and Physically Aggressive Students¿Fourth Edition consists of positive, effective approaches for dealing with students who are verbally or physically aggressive. Teachers learn to successfully manage and instruct difficult students by:¿seeing each student as a person worthy of his or her time and attention,¿treating students firmly and fairly,¿enforcing consistent expectations,¿creating a safe and secure classroom,¿ensuring that the classroom priority is learning and the dominant attitude is respect, and¿recognizing the potential in all students. These techniques have been found to be effective with students who have significant behavioral problems as well as students in the general education population.Contents1.Facing the Challenge2.The Classroom Climate3.Ineffective Classroom Management Techniques4.Successful Behavior Management Techniques5.Behavior Intervention Plans6.Understanding Aggression7.Dealing With Aggressive Behavior8.Verbally Dealing With Aggression9.Use of Time-Out10.Bully-Proofing the Classroom11.Physical Intervention With Aggressive Students12.Breaking Up Fights13.Police Intervention and Community Agency Involvement14.Working Effectively With Parents15.Administrative IssuesAppendices contain multiple sample forms and examples of procedures.

Provides how-to information and step-by-step methods for working with disciplinary problems and aggression within the school setting. This book includes six specific things you must do in completing functional assessments. It also offers tips for dealing with aggressive behavior and how to bully-proof your classroom.

The Smart Classroom Management Way is a collection of the very best writing from ten years of Smart Classroom Management (SCM). It isn't, however, simply a random mix of popular articles. It's a comprehensive work that encompasses every principle, theme, and methodology of the SCM approach. The book is laid out across six major areas of classroom management and includes the most pressing issues, problems, and concerns shared by all teachers. The underlying SCM themes of accountability, maturity, independence, personal responsibility, and intrinsic motivation are all there and weave their way throughout the entirety of the book. Together, they form a simple, unique, and sometimes contrarian approach to classroom management that anyone can do. Whether you're an elementary, middle, or high school teacher, The Smart Classroom Management Way will give you the strategies, skills, and know-how to turn any group of students into the motivated, well-behaved class you love teaching.

This guide details practical methods for managing students who are physically and verbally aggressive in the classroom and discusses strategies for involving the community and parents in the solutions. The authors also note which classroom management techniques fail and those which succeed.

A cornucopia of ideas, strategies, and concepts that will apply to virtually any situation! The authors address sensory, communication, physical, and social-emotional issues by increasing desired behaviors and decreasing unwanted behaviors. You will learn how to build sensory diets into everyday activities use antecedent control teach students to self-regulate deal with self-injurious behaviors, physical or verbal aggression teach toilet training handle obsessive-compulsive behavior and fixations deal with crisis/stress/data management handle data management and much more. Whatever problems you face, you'll find helpful solutions to them in this book. This book should be on every teacher's and parent's bookshelf. Great reference source!