Search -
Safe and Healthy Secondary Schools: Strategies to Build Relationships, Teach Respect, and Deliver Meaningful Behavioral Support to Students
Safe and Healthy Secondary Schools Strategies to Build Relationships Teach Respect and Deliver Meaningful Behavioral Support to Students Author:Susan Lamke, Denise Pratt, Stan Graeve, M.A. Secondary schools are teeming with teens whose attitudes and actions can sometimes be unpredictable, uncalled-for, and unproductive - bullying, cheating, teasing, whining, sleeping in class, shoving, fighting, touching, talking out of turn, showing up late, and failing to do assignments. These familiar problems too frequently disrupt classroo... more »m instruction, jeopardize student success, and undermine school cohesion. But it doesn't have to be that way. How can educators expand their sphere of influence to protect students physically and emotionally? By combining proper supervision with proactive teaching strategies and people skills. This book introduces techniques and strategies to counteract students' disrespect, apathy and aggression. True-to-life stories explain how teachers, administrators and support staff can create collaborative and cooperative learning communities. Readers also will learn how the teenage brain influences behavior for better or worse, how to forge relationships with alienated and disconnected students, how to lessen risks by eliminating "unowned" areas, and how to teach students to handle problems logically rather than recklessly« less