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Shouting Won't Grow Dendrites
20 Techniques to Detour Around the Danger Zones
Second Edition
June 2014 | 176 pages | Corwin
Dispel discipline problems with new classroom management techniques!
Behavioral problems often occur when students are bored or unmotivated. Your best offense is a classroom environment that’s proactive, supportive, and fun. This newly revised edition from education expert, Marcia L. Tate, helps you meet your students where they are. You’ll find 5 new ways to detour students around misbehavior, updated research, new vignettes, and the latest classroom management techniques that you can implement right away.
In a new two color illustrated format, Tate provides a theoretical framework, practical applications, detailed implementation, and reflection opportunity for each strategy introduced. Teachers at all levels will discover Common Core-aligned techniques that will help them to:
• Establish a relationship with students that supports deep learning
• Deliver brain-compatible lessons
• Work with students who have attention deficit disorder and chronic behavior problems
• Promote student concentration and memory with classroom arrangement, light, color, and music
Learn how to improve student learning in today’s challenging social climate. Implement the crucial elements for lasting motivation and engagement with this essential guide!
Praise for the First Edition:
"Teachers of any grade level, Pre-K through adult, can benefit from this book. It is an easy read with useful ideas that are backed up by quality research. Teachers can read about a strategy very quickly, learn why it is important, discover the steps for implementation, and begin reflecting on how to apply the strategy to their own classroom."
—Denise Leonard, Beginning Teacher
Support and Assessment Staff Development Teacher
Torrance Unified School District, CA
Behavioral problems often occur when students are bored or unmotivated. Your best offense is a classroom environment that’s proactive, supportive, and fun. This newly revised edition from education expert, Marcia L. Tate, helps you meet your students where they are. You’ll find 5 new ways to detour students around misbehavior, updated research, new vignettes, and the latest classroom management techniques that you can implement right away.
In a new two color illustrated format, Tate provides a theoretical framework, practical applications, detailed implementation, and reflection opportunity for each strategy introduced. Teachers at all levels will discover Common Core-aligned techniques that will help them to:
• Establish a relationship with students that supports deep learning
• Deliver brain-compatible lessons
• Work with students who have attention deficit disorder and chronic behavior problems
• Promote student concentration and memory with classroom arrangement, light, color, and music
Learn how to improve student learning in today’s challenging social climate. Implement the crucial elements for lasting motivation and engagement with this essential guide!
Praise for the First Edition:
"Teachers of any grade level, Pre-K through adult, can benefit from this book. It is an easy read with useful ideas that are backed up by quality research. Teachers can read about a strategy very quickly, learn why it is important, discover the steps for implementation, and begin reflecting on how to apply the strategy to their own classroom."
—Denise Leonard, Beginning Teacher
Support and Assessment Staff Development Teacher
Torrance Unified School District, CA
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Detour: Get to Know Each Student
1. Develop a Relationship With Each Student
2. Expect the Best!
3. Understand the Symptoms
Detour: Create a Physical Environment Conducive to Learning
4. Light Up Their World
5. Let the Music Play
6. Color Their World
7. Stop and Smell the Roses
8. Create a Natural Environment
Detour: Engage the Brains of Your Students
9. Use Brain-Compatible Strategies
10. Hook Them Into Relevant Lessons
11. Let Them Talk!
12. Let Them Move!
13. Keep Them Laughing
Detour: Develop a Proactive Management Plan
14. Teach Your Rituals
15. Accentuate the Positive
16. Celebrate Good Times, Come On!
17. Use Low-Profile Interventions
18. De-emphasize the Negative
19. Get Help With Chronic Behavior Challenges
20. Solicit Parental Support
Bibliography
Index
· The format has been changed to reflect the 5 ways to detour students around misbehavior.
· There are new stories throughout the chapters to illustrate different points.
· Introduction has been changed to reflect societal issues that make it more difficult to manage students than ever before.
· There is updated research in each chapter.
· Most of the illustrations are new.
· There are additional new activities in each chapter.
Sample Materials & Chapters
Table of Contents and Introduction
1. Develop a Relationship With Each Student