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Facilitator's Guide to The Win-Win Classroom

A Fresh and Positive Look at Classroom Management

By: Jane E. Bluestein

Lead training that helps teachers establish win-win authority relationships with students!

This facilitator's guide provides the tools for leading professional development events of any size to help teachers prevent discipline problems, build student accountability, engage even the most defiant or resistant learner, and end frustrating power struggles with kids of all ages. Trainers will be able to discuss how brain functioning and social/emotional issues influence student behavior and provide empowering guidelines for:

Avoiding the "rules and punishment" trap
Creating a caring and emotionally safe learning climate
Defusing conflict and opposition
Encouraging student cooperation, motivation, self-management, and on-task behavior

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Product Details

Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412965033
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 88
Publication date: June 11, 2008

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Description

Lead training that helps teachers establish win-win authority relationships with students!

Based on Jane Bluestein's remarkable book The Win-Win Classroom, this guide gives staff developers and workshop leaders the tools to facilitate book study groups, seminars, and professional development events to help teachers prevent discipline problems, build student accountability, and end frustrating power struggles with kids of all ages. Facilitators will be able to discuss the impact of stress, brain functioning, learning styles, and social/emotional issues on student behavior and provide empowering guidelines and practical ideas for

Avoiding the "rules and punishment" trap
Creating a caring and emotionally safe learning climate
Defusing conflict and opposition
Encouraging student cooperation, motivation, self-management, and on-task behavior
Engaging even the most defiant, defeated, or resistant learner

This chapter-by-chapter study guide follows the same format as the companion book and features

Workshop activities
Discussion questions
Suggestions for practical applications
Chapter summaries
Handouts and overheads
Resources for extending learning
Sample agendas for half-day, one-day, and two-day workshops
A workshop evaluation form

The Facilitator's Guide to The Win-Win Classroom is ideal for staff developers or anyone leading professional training for groups of any size—pairs, small workshops, or large seminars.

Author(s)

Jane E. Bluestein

A dynamic and entertaining speaker, Jane Bluestein has worked with thousands of educators, counselors, health care professionals, parents, child care workers, and other community members worldwide. She has appeared internationally as a speaker and talk-show guest, including several appearances as a guest expert on CNN, National Public Radio, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Bluestein specializes in programs and resources geared to provide practical and meaningful information, training, and hope in areas related to relationship building, effective instruction and guidance, and personal development. Much of her work focuses on interactions between adults and children, especially children at risk. Her down-to-earth speaking style, practicality, sense of humor, and numerous stories and examples make her ideas clear and accessible to her audiences.

Bluestein is an award-winning author whose books include Creating Emotionally Safe Schools; High School’s Not Forever; 21st Century Discipline; Being a Successful Teacher; Parents in a Pressure Cooker; Parents, Teens, & Boundaries; The Parent’s Little Book of Lists: Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Parenting; Mentors, Masters, and Mrs. McGregor: Stories of Teachers Making a Difference; and Daily Riches: A Journal of Gratitude and Awareness. Bluestein’s latest book is entitled The Win-Win Classroom.

Formerly a classroom teacher in inner-city Pittsburgh, PA, a crisis-intervention counselor, a teacher training program coordinator, and a volunteer with high-risk teens at a local day treatment program, Bluestein currently heads Instructional Support Services, Inc., a consulting and resource firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

How to Use This Guide

Additional Resources for Facilitators

Chapter-by-Chapter Study Guide: The Win-Win Classroom: A Fresh and Positive Look at Classroom Management by Jane Bluestein

Introduction

Part I: The System, Your Students, and You

Chapter 1. Drawing the Line

Chapter 2. Starting Where You Are

Chapter 3. Clarifying What You Want

Part II: The Challenges

Chapter 4. Behavior and the Brain

Chapter 5. Tripping Over the System

Chapter 6. Catching Up to the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 7. Keeping the Big Picture in Mind

Part III: Restructuring Power Dynamics

Chapter 8. Connecting With Kids

Chapter 9. Who's Got the Power?

Chapter 10. Win-Win Authority Relationships

Part IV: Establishing Authority in a Win-Win Classroom

Chapter 11. Mastering Motivation

Chapter 12. The Power of Choice

Chapter 13. The Beauty of Boundaries

Chapter 14. Following Through

Chapter 15. Responding Nonreactively

Part V: Success Orientation

Chapter 16. Managing a Win-Win Classroom

Chapter 17. Planning for Success

Chapter 18. Learning Styles and Preferences

Part VI: Increasing Positivity

Chapter 19. Changing Your Focus

Chapter 20. Creating Congruence

Chapter 21. Keeping the Good Stuff Going

Chapter 22. Supporting Emotional and Social Development

Chapter 23. Building Problem-Solving Skills

Part VII: Working the System

Chapter 24. Backup and Support

Chapter 25. Secrets of Successful Self-Care

Epilogue

Resource A. Win-Win Ideas for Administrators

Resource B. Magic Sentences

Resource C. Characteristics of Healthy Relationships

Sample Workshop Agendas

Half-Day Workshop Agenda

Full-Day Workshop Agenda

Two-Day Workshop Agenda

Workshop Evaluation Form

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