Product Description

Arguing, excluding classmates, forming cliques, 'forgetting' to do homework, refusing to do work, balking at sharing. These problems, so common in elementary classrooms, can disrupt learning, frustrate children, and exhaust teachers. This book gives you five strategies for working with children to solve these sorts of problems. You'll learn to use: problem-solving conferences, conflict resolution, role-playing, class meetings, and individual written agreements. With warmth, wit, and deep insight into classroom life, veteran teacher Caltha Crowe guides teachers in making the most of each strategy. She includes detailed steps, true stories from classrooms, actual conversations with students, and answers to real teachers' questions. Interactive planning pages will help you adapt the strategies for your own students.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #353093 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
Solving Thorny Behavior Problems offers teachers a proven, practical, and emotionally intelligent path to handling the tough problems students can present. --Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

This book is like watching a master teacher demonstrate skills for helping students create a caring, respectful, cooperative classroom where they can experience the joy of learning. --Jane Nelsen, author of Positive Discipline

About the Author
Caltha Crowe has nearly forty years of experience teaching a range of elementary grades. She gives workshops and coaches educators on using the Responsive Classroom approach.

Customer Reviews

Extremely helpful book.
Very helpful book that tells how to first set up a caring community in your classroom and then how to work through difficult behavior with students.