Behavior difficulties in our schools will not go away, but they can be significantly reduced. This book makes available to practitioners and students the frameworks and ideas which will help them minimize behavior difficulty in school.
The authors address three important levels: the school, the classroom and the individual. At each level, they show how to identify and analyze patterns of difficulty, and then identify methods for improvement.
Improving School Behavior has been written in order to bring to readers useful approaches founded in a comprehensive range of useful international research, and in years of experience in working with schools. It is a mine of helpful ideas and practical approaches. This is not recipe book, or a source of quick fixes or favorite theories.
The authors:
· challenge simplified rhetoric about school behavior
· help practitioners identify real areas and effective methods for improvement.
· identify the shortcomings of much conventional wisdom about improving behavior,
· show how to implement practical, evidence-based alternatives which can lead to improved results.
Improving School Behavior is an essential resource for all those who are not afraid to improve. It is suitable for use in settings for all age-ranges.
