How to Keep Good Teachers and Principals: Practical Solutions to Today's Classroom Problems

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R&L Education, 2011 - Education - 97 pages
Between the current "Me" Generation, the overabundance of discipline problems and violence, the stress of the accountability measures of No Child Left Behind, and the current state of the economy, many education professionals are retiring, changing jobs, or leaving the profession. This book serves as a helpful, hands-on toolbox to give educators more tools and strategies, including a new behavior modification model called Self-Correcting Behavior Modification. Educators will find that this book will help them to get much-needed answers and relief to their continued attempts to serve as effectively and efficiently as possible. --Book Jacket.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Chapter 1 What Is Going On?
3
Chapter 2 So What Do Educators Do Now?
9
Chapter 3 Setting the Stage for Change
11
Chapter 4 Organizing Physical Space and Materials
13
Chapter 5 A Reflective Teaching Model
21
SelfCorrecting Behavior
25
Chapter 7 What Does Practice Look Like in a SelfCorrecting Behavior Modification Model?
31
Chapter 11 Practice during Recess
53
Chapter 12 Working with Parents
57
Chapter 13 Stabilizing and Maintaining a Consistent Environment
65
Chapter 14 Celebrating and Building Citizenship with Students
73
The New PerformanceBased Model
79
Conclusion
87
Appendix A
89
Bibliography
91

Chapter 8 Using Class Meetings to Build Success
35
Chapter 9 Creating a CSI Critical Strategies Intervention Classroom Using Technology
41
Chapter 10 Modeling as a Leader
49
About the Author
97
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Dr. Lonnie Melvin has experience as an educational leader, counselor, teacher, and college professor as well as in inpatient and outpatient mental health centers and with special education. She was named an Oklahoma Association of Elementary School Principals (OAESP) District 7D District Administrator of the Year in 2008 as well as a Model Best Practice School in Oklahoma for two different schools in 2004.

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