Part I: Starting the Year with Proactive Classroom Management Strategies

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

Being proactive in establishing classroom management routines enables teachers to prevent many behavior problems and sets a positive tone for the year.

Viewers will observe an action-packed first day of school in experienced intermediate educator Bev Bain's classroom as she introduces rules and procedures, helps students get to know one another, and lays a firm foundation for a year-long, learning-centered classroom environment.

Viewers learn how to:

• plan for and facilitate a powerful first day of school
• incorporate into the very first day meaningful learning activities that engage intermediate-grade students and provide valuable assessment information
• initiate positive relationships with students and between students
• introduce and reinforce routines and procedures that will serve teachers and students well all year long
• develop effective classroom rules
• clearly communicate expectations for student behavior and see immediate results

Part II: Management and Intervention Strategies that Keep Students On Task and Learning

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

There is a strong connection between active engagement in learning and positive student behavior. In this portion of the training program, viewers will see how to create productive learning situations that reduce student misbehavior. In addition, viewers will see how to intervene quickly and effectively to redirect attention-seeking, off task behavior and how to reduce conflicts between students by developing students' problem solving abilities.

Viewers learn how to:

• organize materials and resources to increase students' time on task, grades 3-6
• actively monitor students' behavior without sacrificing attention to teaching
• develop management routines that
increase students' growing responsibility for their own learning and appropriate classroom behavior
• reduce conflict between students by helping students hone their interpersonal problem-solving skills
• use classroom-proven strategies, activities, and routines to engage students in solving problems
• implement highly effective intervention strategies to address off task behavior

Part III: Strategies for Dealing with Difficult and Challenging Students

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

Even in well-managed classrooms, teachers find themselves dealing with students who act out and are disruptive. In this portion of the video training program national staff development trainer Spencer Henry takes viewers through a wide range of highly practical, classroom-tested strategies for intervening effectively with difficult students and de-escalating potentially volatile situations. Viewers will also see teacher-student problem-solving conferences that demonstrate how to help noncompliant intermediate grade students become more responsible for controlling their actions.

Viewers learn how to:

• recognize the motivating forces behind students' misbehavior
• intervene quickly and effectively to redirect student misbehaviors ranging from minor attention-seeking to highly disruptive
• avoid being drawn into power struggles with noncompliant students
• calmly de-escalate potentially volatile situations with angry students
• redefine time out and greatly increase its effectiveness
• implement effective consequences that increase students' sense of responsibility for their own behavior
• hold productive problem-solving conferences, even with very challenging students