From Non-Compliance to Cooperation in the Classroom
Published: 2008-02-06
New Training Video Shows How
- Joe, an eighth-grade student, refuses to give up his turn on the computer.
- Tiffany, a third grader, jumps up from her chair five times an hour.
- Nina, a first-grader, refuses to join her reading group.
- Sean, an 11 th grader, laughs and continues to mill around the room when the teacher asks everyone to take their seats.
- Helanah and Marta, high-school seniors, whisper to each other during class when the teacher is presenting assignments.
Student behaviors like the ones above can make teaching stressful. In fact, in surveys of current teachers, they cite inadequate training in classroom management as a one of their top job stressors. And former teachers cite it as a significant reason they decided to leave their profession.
Yet, much of the stress associated with these kinds of student behaviors can be avoided. As diverse as the students and behaviors described above seem to be, they have one thing in common. The challenging behaviors can be effectively addressed with a behavior management strategy designed to correct non-compliance and foster student cooperation.
In a new K-12 professional development video, Managing Non-Compliance: Effective Strategies for K-12 Teachers, from IRIS Media, nationally recognized behavior-management specialist, Geoff Colvin, Ph.D., lines out a three-part strategy that teachers and school staff can use to handle challenging and troublesome student behaviors.
Based on extensive educational research and current best practices, Managing Non-Compliance uses a combination of realistic wrong-way/right-way vignettes and Dr. Colvin’s expert commentary to clearly demonstrate how troublesome student behaviors escalate and how to intervene early to prevent them from developing.
Covering the most common forms of non-compliance, including defiance, resisting directions, not minding, insubordination, and oppositional behavior, this new video-based.
Training program is appropriate for teachers and school staff who work with students from kindergarten through high school. The variety of vignettes ensures that staff will be able to effectively use the strategy with students of all ages. A reproducible viewer’s guide provides background on issues of non-compliance, recaps issues presented in the video, summarizes key points, and provides discussion questions and resource information.
ISBN: 1-932969-01-2
Price: $100, plus shipping and handling
Packaged in a sturdy plastic case with lively video-jacket graphics. Each kit includes one VHS tape and viewer’s guide.
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