50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges (Study Guide)

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.

Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Meet and Greet2. A Letter of Introduction3. Tools for Rules and Procedures4. Are You All Right?5. Stay Near, Dear6. Believein Them!7. Meting Out the Seating8. Happy Notes to Parents9. Their Own Notes to Parents10. Make Them Responsible11. Stress Success, Not Duress12. Ethusiasm Breeds Enthusiasm13. Pry For Why14. A Laugh is Half15. Student or Teaching Problem?16. Learn What to Overlook17. If You Sweat, They Win18. Defuse the Bully19. Hold Private Practice Sessions20. Speak Awfully Softly21. Teaching In Small Bites Makes Them Hungrier22. Saving "Gotcha" for Behaving23. Find the Gleaming and Redeeming24. Join the Ranks of Thanks25. Humiliation Breeds Retaliation26. Beware the 90/10 Rule27. We Care About Those Who Care About Us28. A Nice, Polite, and Motivated as YOU?29. Unmask the Mask30. Don't Let the Mood Brood31. Who's the Most Positive?32. Become Interested in Their Interests33. A Favor as a Lifesaver34. Admit Your Mistakes35. Seeing Eye to Eye36. Bell-to-Bell Teaching37. Smile, Smile, Smile!38. Teaching with Urgency39. Make it Doable and Chewable40. Brag ABout Them to Others41. The Diversion Excursion42. Change the Way They Think43. Nip It in the Bud44. Discover the Beams of Their Dreams45. Work That Body Language!46. No Rest for the Weary47. A Little Guilt Trip Goes a Long Way48. Teach Them to Cope or They'll Create a Way!49. Listen, Listen, Listen!50. Only a Fool Loses His Cool

Annette Breaux, Todd Whitaker