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.

By Stephen W. Smith and Mitchell L. Yell

1 Prevention as the Foundation for Managing a Classroom: An Introduction

2 Creating a Positive Classroom Environment

3 Structure and Organization for Effective Classroom Management

with Dennis Cavitt and T. Rowand Robinson

4 Preventing Problem Behavior Through Effective Teaching

with Mark Samudre and R. Allan Allday

5 Conducting Meetings in the Classroom

6 Responding to Student Misbehavior

with Michael E. Rozalski and Gerda Kumpiene

7 Specific Prevention and Intervention Techniques

8 Providing Students with Skills to Independently Make Wise Behavioral Choices

9 Understanding and Fostering Teacher-Student Relationships to Prevent Behavior Problems

with Christopher L. Van Loan, Michael J. Marlowe, and Daniel V. Poling

10 Putting It All Together

References

Index

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