Heading Off Disruption
How Early Intervention Can Reduce Defiant Behavior—and Win Back Teaching
Time
By Hill M. Walker, Elizabeth Ramsey, and Frank M. Gresham
Disruptive behavior is typically the biggest
problem that teachers face. The interventions described in this article
greatly reduce chronic bad behavior—even among the most difficult children
and especially when the intervention occurs early in elementary school.
Prevention Begins with Screening
How a Social Skills Curriculum Works
How an Intensive Intervention Works
How Disruptive Students Escalate Hostility and
Disorder--
and How Teachers Can Avoid It
By Hill M. Walker, Elizabeth Ramsey, and Frank M. Gresham
Long-term, early interventions are the key to
preventing bad behavior, but teachers also need strategies that will work
today to defuse the hostile interactions that aggressive students so often
initiate. Find out how to use “avoidance” and “escape” strategies—and how
to deliver directions that are less likely to trigger defiance.
Teaching Poor Students:
How To Make it a Prestigious, Desirable Career
A Title I for Teacher Pay Act?
By Matthew Miller
Teaching in an urban school is probably the nation’s
most undervalued profession. It should be a badge of honor, a clear sign of
talent and generosity—and it should be well paid. Here’s a proposal to make
the inner-city schools prestigious and lucrative places to work.
Ask the Cognitive Scientist
Why Students Think They Understand—When They Don’t
By Daniel T. Willingham
We all overestimate our knowledge from time to
time; we feel like we know all about a topic—until we have to explain it
to someone else. This is a special problem for students: When they feel
they know something, they stop studying it—and never really learn the
material. The cognitive scientist explains why and how we overestimate our
knowledge and what students can do to accurately assess their knowledge
while they study.
Mayday at 41,000 Feet Watch Those Units!
By Steve Silverman
How many times have you told the kids in a math
class to keep track of a problem’s “units”? This belly-laugh of a story
will help them remember that it matters whether you count inches, feet,
gallons, pints … or liters. Enjoy the ride.
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