Part I: Starting the Year with Proactive Classroom Management Strategies

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

By being proactive in establishing classroom management routines, secondary teachers prevent many behavior problems and set a positive, productive tone for the school year. In this portion of the video training program viewers will observe secondary-level teachers and students engaged in foundational first day experiences that lay the groundwork for the remainder of the year. Highly effective educators demonstrate key elements of maintaining a well-managed classroom, promoting a cooperative environment, and minimizing misbehavior.

Viewers learn how to:

• plan for and implement a powerful first day of class at the middle and high school grades
• build positive relationships with students using simple, practical approaches and strategies
• solidly establish classroom routines and procedures by introducing and reinforcing them in effective, age-appropriate ways
• clearly communicate expectations for student behavior without repeatedly going over the rules
• develop management routines that enhance students' learning and make secondary classrooms more focused and more productive
• strengthen students' ability to manage necessary materials and resources in time-efficient ways
• organize different learning configurations to maximize learning and minimize disruptions

Part II: Strategies for Dealing with Challenging, Difficult Students

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

Even in the most well-managed classrooms, secondary teachers sometimes need to contend with students who act out and are disruptive. In this part of the video program, national staff development trainer Spencer Henry takes viewers through scenarios specifically designed to demonstrate practical, classroom-proven strategies for intervening with difficult students and de-escalating potentially volatile situations. In addition to powerful, on-the-spot intervention techniques, viewers will see how to engage secondary-level students in whole-class and individual problem solving in order to minimize inappropriate, unwanted classroom behaviors.

Viewers learn how to:

• recognize the mistaken goals of misbehavior and adjust interventions to address student intentions
• implement time-effective, low-key intervention strategies to address attention-seeking, off-task behavior
• use a versatile repertoire of powerful, straight-forward techniques to respectfully deal with a wide range of student misbehaviors
• act, not react, even when secondary-level students try to push your buttons with highly inappropriate comments and behaviors
• calmly avoid power struggles and no-win confrontations with students, grades 6-12
• implement effective consequences in ways that cause students to take greater responsibility for their own actions and attitudes
• work productively with students to resolve conflicts and problems and move towards more responsible behavior in the classroom