The Behavior Code (eBook)

A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students

Jessica Minahan, Nancy Rappaport (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
280 Seiten
Harvard Education Press (Verlag)
978-1-61250-268-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Behavior Code provides proven, multipurpose strategies to help teachers get students with behavioral issues back on track. The authors offer practical examples of these behavior strategies in clear, concise, and readable language.

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The Behavior Code unlocks a wealth of proven practices to help teachers, counselors, and parents identify the messages underlying challenging student behaviors and respond in supportive ways.The authorsa behavioral analyst with expertise in special education and a child psychiatristguide readers through their FAIR Behavior Intervention Plan, a systematic approach to decoding the causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and developing effective measures to address them in schools. They demonstrate how the FAIR Plan can bring about positive change, even with students who exhibit anxious, withdrawn, oppositional, or inappropriately sexualized behaviors.Drawing on developments in cognitive science and educational psychology, the authors begin with a simple premise: all behavior is communication. Crucially, the first step of their FAIR plan is to discover the function (F) of a students behavior. They encourage the use of nonjudgmental curiosity aided by standard data collection methods such as antecedent, behavior, and consequence (ABC) studies. The authors then give readers the tools to look beyond behaviors to implement targeted accommodations (A), interaction strategies (I), and appropriate response strategies (R). As they guide readers through their framework, they offer ample case studies, accessible worksheets, and focused thought exercises that allow readers to fully understand and implement suggested strategies.This thoughtful and empathetic approach can shift the balance from reactive to proactive classroom management, fostering meaningful teacher-student relationships and reducing the need for school discipline. Taken together, FAIR practices equip educators to support students in building the skills they need to access their higher-order brain functions more consistently and maintain a ready-to-learn mindset.

Autor

Jessica Minahan is a board-certified behavior analyst and special educator who is currently employed in the Newton (Mass.) public school system as a district-wide behavior analyst. Nancy Rappaport is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide (Basic Books, 2009).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 190 x 190 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
• Schlagworte: attention deficithyperactivity disorder • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder • Behavior intervention plan • Classroom management • classroom management strategies for educators • cognitive science based educational interventions • disruptive behavior understanding modification • Educational Psychology • higher-order brain functions • nonjudgmental curiosity transforms troubled youth • proactive response plan anxious withdrawn children • school discipline • Special education • special education support tools templates • systematic approach to problem behaviors in schools • teacher-student relationships
• ISBN-10: 1-61250-268-7 / 1612502687
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61250-268-7 / 9781612502687