Creating Positive Elementary Classrooms
Preventing Behavior Challenges to Promote Learning
Stephen W Smith author Mitchell L Yell author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:15th Jan '22
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Creating Positive Elementary Classrooms: Preventing Behavior Challenges to Promote Learning includes straightforward, feasible, and evidenced-based strategies designed to prevent behavior problems in K-5 classrooms. With an exclusive classroom focus, this practitioner-friendly book encourages teachers to be proactive in classroom management and guides them through the process of setting up their classrooms to maximize learning while focusing on prevention of behavior challenges. Its emphasis on catching behavior problems before they occur enables teachers to run their classrooms more efficiently and experience less frustration, while also increasing student learning. A well-organized, systematic, and predictable teaching environment helps to prevent challenging behaviors, and this book presents ways to achieve this type of classroom environment. Using real-life classroom scenarios, this guide equips teachers with management techniques that break the common cycle of frustration, aggression, rejection, and hostility, so they can create positive elementary classrooms.
A must-have book for elementary teachers and teacher candidates, Creating Positive Elementary Classrooms presents practical techniques grounded in research and best practices for preventing and responding to student behavior problems. Written in a practitioner-friendly style that is easy to follow, this book is the ideal combination of classroom scenarios, useful information, and research-based practices. -- Kristen M. O’Brien, George Mason University
Stephen Smith and Mitchell Yell provide an excellent resource for individuals preparing to become teachers and for teachers in the field needing the latest research and best practice recommendations for creating positive learning environments. The book provides practical suggestions backed by research and concrete examples of what to look for in the classroom. The book also provides excellent context on how effective instruction and proactive classroom management techniques intertwine. Highly recommended! -- Keri DeSutter, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Challenging behavior is often hard to deal with, because there is such a variety of behaviors and triggers. Creating Positive Elementary Classrooms provides a complete guide of strategies to reference and implement. With so many outside factors and environments, it is crucial to have a supportive environment for students to learn and grow. -- Stephanie Ammons, assistant principal, Mountain View Intermediate
ISBN: 9781538155646
Dimensions: 255mm x 180mm x 17mm
Weight: 531g
254 pages