Preventing Problem Behaviors:
Schoolwide Programs and Classroom Practices
Robert F. Algozzine, Ph.D. , Ann P. Daunic Ph.D. , Stephen W. Smith Ph.D.
Prevention is the key to a successful school behavior plan!
In today’s increasingly diverse PreK–12 classrooms, problem behaviors can often interrupt instructional time and disrupt learning. Designed for 21st-century school leaders, administrators, behavior specialists, and classroom teachers, this research-based guide offers specific strategies and plans for preventing problem behavior at both the classroom and school level.
Based on the premise that early response to problems can lead to better outcomes for students, the book’s content is framed around four essential areas: foundations, intervention, collaboration, and evaluation.
Features:
- The latest information on the science and practice of prevention
- Reasons why conflict resolution, peer mediation, and bully-proofing are essential to prevention
- Effective practices for teaching social skills to young children
- Proven techniques for implementing schoolwide positive behavior support
- Tools for using individual behavior plans to prevent problems
- Ideas for home-school and community partnerships and culturally responsible teaching
- Critical strategies for monitoring student progress and evaluating prevention practices
- New, updated chapters, including information on preschool behavior support and RTI
This valuable resource provides all the tools and strategies school leaders and teachers need to keep children focused on learning.
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Managing Difficult Behaviors through Problem Solving Instruction:
Strategies for the Elementary Classroom
Stephen W. Smith, Ph.D. & Ann P. Daunic, Ph.D.
This research-supported text provides a comprehensive and practical approach for teaching elementary school students at a critical developmental stage to use social problem solving to self-manage their behavior. The book contains practical and easy-to-implement ideas for teachers and other school professionals as they help students learn this process. The approach can be used in regular or special education classrooms, small groups, or individual counseling sessions.
Features:
- The practical application of social problem solving in school situations is blended with a clear description of the theory and research underlying the basic concepts, providing readers with information about how and why social problem solving can work in schools.
- Real world examples of teaching situations throughout the text encourage student understanding of when and how to apply major concepts and techniques presented in each chapter.
- A classroom-related scenario opens appropriate chapters, helping readers see the need for the teaching strategies described within.
- Boxed features throughout the text highlight important concepts and provide readers with visual representations of basic concepts.
- Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter provide readers with easy advance access to the major chapter concepts.
- Frequently Asked Questions at the end of each chapter provide readers information beyond the narrative and address the most common reader questions.
