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Motivating Defiant and Disruptive Students to Learn

Positive Classroom Management Strategies

By: Rich Korb

This collection of behavior management strategies includes easy-to-implement methods that engage students reignite your love of teaching as you reap the rewards of a well-managed classroom.

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781452205786
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2012
Page Count: 184
Publication date: December 19, 2012

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Email Rich Korb at korbri@gmail.com for information about accompanying DVDs that demonstrate live classroom application!

How to stay calm, cool, and in control of your classroom

Today's teachers face more challenges than ever before in managing student behavior in the classroom. New teachers often find themselves underprepared for the realities of hard-to-engage students and increased class size. Rich Korb brings extensive teaching and administrative experience to his collection of strategies designed to keep you and your students focused on learning. This accessible, step-by-step guide for new and veteran teachers offers easy-to-implement methods that help you:

Motivate and engage students
Set up your classroom to prevent disruptive behavior
Stay calm in the face of adverse situations
Reduce the effect of misbehavior on other students' learning
Respond to inappropriate behavior effectively
Avoid burning out

This powerful staff development program is filled with strategies you can read today and apply tomorrow. They have been classroom tested and praised by teachers looking for guidance when they wanted to scream, yell, or cry. This book will reignite your love of teaching as you reap the rewards of a well-managed classroom.

Author(s)

Rich Korb

Rich Korb has thirty-three years of educational experience as a successful educator and consultant working with difficult and at-risk students. He has taught both general and special education at all levels and has served as Youth Ranch Director of Education for delinquent youth.

His experience in working with difficult and defiant students has led him to develop a wealth of practical ideas that teachers and administrators can put to use immediately. He knows what works and what doesn’t work when dealing with disruptive and defiant students.

Rich is also a sought-after presenter, and author of Motivating Defiant and Disruptive Students to Learn, Powerful Strategies for Working Effectively with Difficult, Noncompliant Students, and Accelerating Achievement Through Purposeful Assessment.

Rich is an adjunct faculty member for Seattle Pacific University and Brandman University Chapman University Systems, where he teaches a course in how to work with defiant and disruptive students.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

1. Introduction to Student Motivation

2. Setting Up a Class Environment for Success

3. Behavior Improvement Strategies for Individual Students

4. Strategies for Managing Classroom Behavior

5. Academic Motivation

6. Students with Disabilities in the General Education Classroom

7. Building Winning Relationships

8. Concluding Thoughts

References and Resources

Index

Reviews

"Rich Korb has a wealth of experience in dealing with the defiant and alienated students who disrupt classes and other students’ learning. This valuable book provides strong support on important cultural changes and student behavior management that will provide an inclusive and engaging school environment for all students."

Neil MacNeill, Principal
Ellenbrook Primary School, Western Australia

"This book offers very specific ways a classroom teacher can implement behavior modifications when the school does not have a strong behavior system in place. The detailed, step-by-step methods of implementing the behavior modification provide teachers something they can read and begin using immediately."

Michelle Strom, Middle School Language Arts Teacher
Fort Riley Middle School, KS

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