Ebook: 50 ways to improve student behavior: simple solutions to complex challenges

Written to accompany 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior: Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges by Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker, this Study Guide was written for the participants of seminars, book study groups, and other professional development events. This Study Guide serves as a roadmap to help you organize and work with your faculty study group. It provides assistance to staff developers, principals, team leaders, college professors, and other educational leaders who are working with teachers as they develop their professional skills.;1. Meet and greet -- 2. A letter of introduction -- 3. Tools for rules and procedures -- 4. Are you all right? -- 5. Stay near, dear -- 6. Believe in them! -- 7. Meting out the seating -- 8. Happy notes to parents -- 9. Their own notes to parents -- 10. Make them responsible -- 11. Stress success, not duress -- 12. Enthusiasm breeds enthusiasm -- 13. Pry for why -- 14. A laugh is half -- 15. Student or teaching problem? -- 16. Learn what to overlook -- 17. If you sweat, they win -- 18. Defuse the bully -- 19. Hold private practice sessions -- 20. Speak awfully softly -- 21. Teaching in small bites makes them hungrier -- 22. Saving "gotcha" for behaving -- 23. Find the gleaming and redeeming -- 24. Join the ranks of thanks -- 25. Humiliation breeds retaliation -- 26. Beware the 90/10 rule -- 27. We care about those who care about us -- 28. As nice, polite, and motivated as you? -- 29. Unmask the mask -- 30. Don't let the mood brood -- 31. Who's the most positive? -- 32. Become interested in their interests -- 33. A favor as a lifesaver -- 34. Admit your mistakes -- 35. Seeing eye to eye -- 36. Bell-to-bell teaching -- 37. Smile, smile, smile! -- 38. Teaching with urgency -- 39. Make it doable and chewable -- 40. Brag about them to others -- 41. The diversion excursion -- 42. Change the way they think -- 43. Nip it in the bud -- 44. Discover the beams of their dreams -- 45. Work that body language! -- 46. No rest for the weary -- 47. A little guilt trip goes a long way -- 48. Teach them to cope or they'll create a way! -- 49. Listen, listen, listen! -- 50. Only a fool loses his cool.