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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Becoming an Effective Classroom Manager | |
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| You Can Be an Effective Classroom Manager | |
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| Why Is Classroom Management Such a Significant Issue for Today's Teachers? | |
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| Why Are Some Teachers Such Effective Classroom Managers? | |
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| You Can Learn to Be an Effective Classroom Manager | |
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| Develop Your Teacher Voice | |
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| Attributes of the Teacher Voice | |
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| Building Your Teacher Voice | |
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| Hold High Expectations | |
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| Expect 100 Percent Compliance With Your Directions 100 Percent of the Time | |
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| Allow No Excuses for Disruptive Behavior | |
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| Always Sweat the Small Stuff | |
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| Never Back Down | |
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| Let Students Know You Are Not Going Away | |
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| Avoid Excessive Praise | |
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| The Lesson of High-Stakes Testing Days | |
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| Developing Your Classroom Discipline Plan | |
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| Establish Rules | |
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| Advantages of Using a Classroom Discipline Plan | |
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| Developing Your Rules | |
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| Determine Positive Support Strategies | |
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| Positive Support for Individual Students | |
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| Classwide Positive Support: Points on the Board | |
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| Determine Corrective Actions | |
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| Why You Need to Take Corrective Actions | |
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| Guidelines for Planning the Use of Corrective Actions | |
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| Before You Implement Your Classroom Management Plan | |
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| Teaching Responsible Behavior | |
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| Teach Policies and Procedures at the Beginning of the School Year | |
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| Determine Policies and Procedures | |
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| Planning to Teach a Lesson on Responsible Behavior | |
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| Responsible Behavior Lesson format | |
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| Develop a Responsible Behavior Curriculum | |
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| Determine the Order in Which You Will Teach the Content | |
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| Sample Responsible Behavior Curriculums | |
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| Utilizing the Behavior Management Cycle | |
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| Effectively Communicate Explicit Directions | |
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| The Behavior Management Cycle | |
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| Step One: Clearly Communicate Explicit Directions | |
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| Utilize Behavioral Narration | |
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| The Trap of Responding to Off-Task Students | |
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| Behavioral Narration | |
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| Utilizing Behavioral Narration to Motivate Students to Get On Task | |
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| Utilizing Behavioral Narration to Keep Students On Task During Instructional Activities | |
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| Behavioral Narration Is No Substitute for Effective Instruction | |
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| Take Corrective Actions | |
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| Guidelines to Take Corrective Actions in Your Classroom | |
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| How Students Will Test You | |
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| Teach Students to Manage Their Own Behavior | |
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| The Levels of Classroom Management Structure | |
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| Level One: Highly Structured | |
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| Level Two: Moving Toward Self-Management | |
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| Level Three: Student Self-Management | |
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| Recalibrate | |
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| Reducing Disruptive Behavior | |
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| Instructional Strategies That Reduce Disruptive Behavior | |
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| How to Provide Opportunities to Respond | |
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| Opportunity to Respond Strategies | |
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| Additional Strategies to Engage Students and Reduce Disruptive Behavior | |
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| Working With Difficult Students | |
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| Build Positive Relationships With Students | |
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| The Trust Issue | |
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| Steps to Earn the Trust of All Your Students | |
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| Develop Individualized Behavior Plans | |
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| Guidelines to Developing an Individualized Behavior Plan | |
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| You Can't Do It on Your Own: Getting the Support You Need to Deal With Difficult Students | |
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| The Myth of the Good Teacher | |
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| Initial Steps to Obtain Support From Parents and Administrators | |
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| The Importance of Parental Support | |
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| Building Positive Relationships With Parents | |
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| Home-School Behavior Contract | |
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| Pulling It All Together | |
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| The Importance of Getting Support From Your Administrators | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Mentors, Coaches, and School Leadership Teams: Structures to Support Classroom Teachers' Behavior Management Efforts | |
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| An Introduction to the Real Time Classroom Coaching Model | |
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| The Birth of the Real Time Classroom Coaching Model | |
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| Real-Time Feedback | |
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| Advantages of the Real Time Classroom Coaching Model | |
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| Supporting Struggling Teachers | |
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| An Introduction to Establishing a Schoolwide Assertive Discipline Program | |
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| Why So Many Schools' Behavior Management Efforts Are Ineffective | |
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| Schools Can Transform Their Learning Climate | |
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| Attributes of Schools With Effective Schoolwide Behavior Management Efforts | |
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| References and Resources | |
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| Index | |