Elementary Teacher's Discipline Problem Solver: A Practical A-Z Guide for Managing Classroom Behavior Problems

Elementary Teacher’s Discipline Problem Solver is a ready-to-use resource filled with practical, concrete, and teacher-tested strategies that will help you maintain order in your classroom while preserving your students' dignity. Each of the book's proven techniques has been designed with the goal of helping you maximize your teaching time and minimize the time you spend disciplining. The strategies included here may be used on an as-needed basis for occasional discipline problems or in a more formal Response-to-Intervention (RTI) framework.

Elementary Teacher's Discipline Problem Solver gives you the information and the down-to-earth strategies you need to handle 63 wide-ranging classroom problems including:

Aggressive Behavior
• Angry Outbursts
• Attention Deficit
• Backtalk
• Bathroom Problems
• Bullying
• Calling Out
• Cheating
• Complaining
• Crying Frequently
• Disorganization
• Disruptive Behavior
• Homework Problems
• Hyperactivity
• Lack of Motivation
• Low Self-esteem
• Lunchroom Problems
• Masturbation
• Perfectionism
• Playground Problems
• Rude Behavior
• Seatwork Problems
• Shyness
• Spitting
• Talking Excessively
• Teasing
• Vandalism
• Whining . . . and many more.

Presenting strategies to maintain classroom order while preserving the students' dignity, Shore (a psychologist with the Hamilton, New Jersey Public Schools) offers advice for handling aggression, attention deficit, backtalk, bathroom problems, bullying, cheating, complaining, homework troubles, hyperactivity, low self-esteem, masturbation, perfectionism, shyness, spitting, vandalism, and other problems. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dr. Kenneth Shore is a psychologist and chair of a child study team for the Hamilton, New Jersey Public Schools. He was awarded the Donald R. Peterson Prize from Rutgers University for "outstanding contributions to professional psychology." He is the author of numerous books including the highly acclaimed The Special Education Handbook and Special Kids Problem Solver from Jossey-Bass Publishers. He has appeared on CNN and PBS television and writes a weekly column for Education World. His e-mail is [email protected].