Guiding Children's Behaviour

Guiding Children?s Behavior is a comprehensive guide to classroom management. It is also the only book to emphasize observation as the best way to determine developmentally appropriate interventions. By following a process for observing children, educators will learn how to see beyond children's manifest behavior to focus on their motivation, needs, and interests. Featuring a series of chapters organized by age, from birth through elementary school, this book:
Helps teachers to individualize discipline practices, including ways to use the curriculum to prevent and manage challenging behaviour.
Offers supportive vignettes and a menu of developmentally appropriate strategies that teachers can choose from.
Questions the effectiveness of frequently used discipline methodologies, such as time-outs and coerced apologies.
Includes a training module to help teachers, administrators, and parents to work together to create more consistency between home and school.
Provides useful forms to keep track of peer interactions, teacher and student self-reflections, parent observations, teacher disciplinary practices, bullying, and more.

Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Historical Perspectives
Current Trends
Social Changes
Goals of Developmental Discipline
Overview of this Book

Chapter 1:What is Developmental Discipline? Observation - The Key to Understanding Behaviour:  Theoretical Foundations, The Distracted Child, Unkind Behaviour, Factors Leading to Misbehaviour, The Unprepared Child, Summary

Chapter 2: The Relationship Between Discipline and Curriculum: Curriculum Defined, The Physical Environment, Observation, Transitions, Class and Community Meetings, Contracts, Home-school Connections , Conclusion

Chapter 3: Building Observational Skills: The Observation Process, Observational Method, Observational Errors, Supervisory Issues, Self-Assessment, Conclusion

Chapter 4: Challenges in the First Three Years: Routines, The Child Who Bites, Tantrums, Sharing and Turn-Taking, Sleeping Issues, Typical and Atypical Behaviour, Conclusion

Chapter 5: The Preschooler and Kindergartner: Beginning School, Selective Mutism, Over Programming, Preschool Aggression, Dysfunctional Families, Heart Start Principles, Conclusion

Chapter 6: School-ager Issues: Homework Battles, Atypical Social Skills, Anxiety and Depression in Children, Racial Issues, Gifted Children, Conclusion

Chapter 7: Commonly Used Disciplinary Practices: How Effective Are They?, Teacher Interventions, Time out, Bullies & Bullying, Disruptions, Coerced Apologies, Conclusion

Chapter 8: Pulling it all Together: Training Faculty, Teacher Characteristics, Reaching out to Families, Conclusion.