"The reader comes away with strategies for implementation and the confidence to create win-win classrooms and support students in self-management."
-Jo Ann Freiberg, Educational Consultant
When it comes to student behavior challenges in the classroom, conventional practices and punitive discipline codes often fail to motivate students to change their attitudes or behavior. Recognized for defining a nontraditional approach that really works, Jane Bluestein offers educators ways to prevent discipline problems, build student accountability, and end frustrating power struggles with kids of all ages.
This authoritative, research-based guidebook discusses the impact of stress, brain functioning, learning styles, and social and emotional issues on student behavior. You'll find examples, guidelines, charts, and anecdotes, along with practical, powerful, and effective ideas to help you:
o Avoid falling into the "rules and punishment" trap
o Establish win-win authority relationships while defusing conflict and opposition
o Build a positive, caring, and emotionally safe learning climate
o Encourage student cooperation, motivation, self-management, and on-task behavior
o Engage even the most defiant, defeated, or resistant learner by using powerful alternative strategies.
The Win-Win Classroom will change the way you interact with students and help you build a positive social culture within your school and classroom.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The System, Your Students, and You
1. Drawing the Line
2. Starting Where You Are
3. Clarifying What You Want
Part II. The Challenges
4. Behavior and the Brain
5. Tripping Over the System
6. Catching Up to the Twenty-First Century
7. Keeping the Big Picture in Mind
Part III. Restructuring Power Dynamics
8. Connecting With Kids
9. Who′s Got the Power?
10. Win-Win Authority Relationships
Part IV. Establishing Authority in a Win-Win Classroom
11. Mastering Motivation
12. The Power of Choice
13. The Beauty of Boundaries
14. Following Through
15. Responding Nonreactively
Part V. Success Orientation
16. Managing a Win-Win Classroom
17. Planning for Success
18. Learning Styles and Preferences
Part VI. Increasing Positivity
19. Changing Your Focus
20. Creating Congruence
21. Keeping the Good Stuff Going
22. Supporting Emotional and Social Development
23. Building Problem-Solving Skills
Part VII. Working the System
24. Backup and Support
25. Secrets of Successful Self-Care
Epilogue
Resource A. Win-Win Ideas for Administrators
Resource B. Magic Sentences
Resource C. Characteristics of Healthy Relationships
Recommended Reading
Index
