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What does rigor really looks like in the classroom? As schools are focused more and more on increasing academic rigor, in part because of the emphasis placed on rigor in all of the various state standards, it's a question every teacher is asking. In this video, Robyn Jackson dispels the confusion by presenting the clear and concise definition of academic rigor she's developed over time and working with teachers to show them what rigor looks like in practice.
Visit a variety of different schools to see real teachers who are using Jackson's field-tested methods to successfully boost academic rigor in their classrooms. You'll witness these teachers helping students to construct meaning for themselves; impose structure on information that allows them to think accurately, consider multiple meanings, and engage in disciplined inquiry and thought; integrate their skills into processes; and apply what they've learned in more than one context and to unpredictable situations.
What Rigor Looks like in the Classroom DVD takes the mystery out of rigor and provides practical guidance for implementing rigorous instruction that meets the needs of all students.
Positive Behavior Management for Today's Classroom
Aligned with the fourth edition of the book Assertive Discipline, this DVD set features classroom scenes with teachers modeling the Assertive Discipline program.
~ Test-drive the Assertive Discipline program by watching educators demonstrate it in their classrooms.
~ Learn research-based techniques for building authentic relationships with students.
~ Earn students' respect by challenging them to a high standard of learning and holding them accountable when they fall short.
~ Discover how to engage your students by targeting issues that they are invested in to amplify learning.
Use Program 1 from this DVD series to introduce teachers to instructional strategies that are proven to be effective in raising student achievement. Robert J. Marzano explains the rationale for each of these strategies, and classroom scenes show how teachers artfully combine these strategies with effective classroom management and curriculum design to produce better student learning.
Use Program 2 from this DVD series to introduce teachers to classroom management strategies that are proven to be effective in raising student achievement. Robert J. Marzano explains the rationale for each of these strategies, and classroom scenes show how teachers artfully combine these strategies with effective instruction and curriculum design to produce better student learning.
Easily-observed physical aggression accounts for only a fraction of bullying behavior. Learn the often-hidden dangers of relational aggression and why this form of bullying is so prevalent among girls and young women. Dr. Crick blends entertaining vintage footage from Candid Camera with solid research in this in-depth exploration of three forms of relational aggression: manipulating friendship, excluding peers, and spreading rumors to instigate rejection.
A Plan for Prevention, Action, and Resolution of Challenging Classroom Behaviors
The long-term goal of the Discipline With Dignity program is to teach students responsibility, self-discipline, and self-control. With this DVD set, learn a variety of techniques to help students feel connected, competent, and empowered, and teach them to have empathy for others¡Xall while having fun! The videos include classroom dramatizations, teacher comments, and extensive interviews with the presenters.
~ Debunk the logic behind conventional methods of discipline, and understand why these practices are ultimately ineffective.
~ Discover the root causes underlying all misbehavior in the classroom.
~ Counteract traditional methods of classroom discipline with research-based strategies that ensure students are treated with fairness and dignity.
~ Leverage research-based tools for supporting student achievement while circumventing the erosion of respect behind leadership in the classroom.
Response to Intervention is an effective method for helping struggling learners achieve academic success. The good news is that RTI can also be a powerful management approach to challenging behaviors in the classroom.
Jim Wright, widely renowned authority on RTI and author of the national best seller, RTI Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Schools, presents powerful strategies for structuring classroom routines that minimize opportunities for student misbehavior. He focuses on TIER I techniques which address:
~ Classroom rules, routines, and schedules
~ Positive behavioral expectations
~ Simple strategies to manage defiant and con-compliant students
~ Targeted use of rewards and feedback
~ Structured lessons to incorporate meaningful student choices
~ Management of daily classroom transitions
In addition to Tier I strategies, Wright provides constructive and positive approaches to address student misbehavior, if and when it occurs. Learn how to implement RTI to create optimal learning environments with a minimum of discipline and behavior problems.
Explore the critical role bystanders play in reducing or exacerbating school violence. Gain a new perspective of bullying as a three-way connection rather than just a bully-victim interaction. Dr. Twemlow addresses the important role that bystanders played in well-known school shootings. He also highlights programs that have proven effective in fostering positive school climates, creating effective peer and adult mentoring programs, and encouraging positive classroom management.
Building Community, Motivation, Responsibility, and School Safety
Explore the four key skill areas (community, motivation, responsibility, and school safety) essential to establishing an atmosphere that supports learning for all students. Each of the four video programs in this workshop focuses on one of these skills and includes proven and research-based strategies from experts Dr. Curwin and Dr. Mendler.
~ Nurture classroom community, and discover why it is essential to good classroom management.
~ Leverage the relationship between student motivation and classroom management with research-based strategies that make learning compelling.
~ Define student responsibility as a key component of behavior management, and discover strategies for building responsibility in students.
~ Collaborate with your team on a variety of interactive activities that demonstrate the relationship between classroom management and learning.
Implement a systemwide solution for classroom management based on the proven strategies best-selling book Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher.
This DVD and Facilitator Guide make it much easier and more cost-effective to conduct in-depth teacher workshops on the research-based classroom management strategies that are more apt to lead to higher student achievement.
Program 1, Sharing Rules and Procedures, helps teachers get off to a good start with new classes by showing them how to establish rules and procedures and set clear expectations for student behavior. Take workshop participants to elementary, middle, and high school classrooms to see how teachers involve students in establishing rules and setting the consequences for not following them.
Use Program 2, Developing Relationships, to explain how the relationship between teachers and students can keep positive learning environments going. Classroom scenes show how teachers can orchestrate an environment suitable for learning with multiple classes and widely diverse students. Teachers demonstrate research-based strategies that lead to mutual respect and student achievement.
Program 3, Fostering Student Self-Management, explores strategies for empowering students with self-discipline and the ability to control their own time, behavior, personal responsibility, and attention. Show teachers how it possible to make students responsible for the good functioning of the classroom.
Learn how to
~ Recognize what Guided Reading looks like at each phase: Early Emergent, Early Fluent, and Fluent.
~ Understand how and when the focus of instruction changes to support readers.
~ Discover the strategies that empower each phase of reading development.
~ Grasp insights to frequently asked questions like, 'How often are new books introduced?' or 'Do you have to complete the book in one session?'
Understand
~ The Reading Continuum
~ Early Emergent/Emergent Phase, Grades K-1, 1-2
~ Early Fluent Phase, Grades 2-3
~ Fluent Phase, Grades 4-6
The ultimate goal is to establish a classroom where students feel bonded and connected to their teacher, where they are self-managers and good decision makers, and maximum time is provided to achieve today's high standards. - Carol Cummings
This program is designed for new teachers but all teachers will benefit as they
~ Examine classroom management strategies for beginning teachers that will help launch rewarding careers.
~ Learn ways to bond and connect students to each other and to the teacher.
~ Observe procedures and routines that are rehearsed to promote self-managing students.
~ Understand why it is important to clearly define work requirements in holding students accountable.
~ Realize how proactive classroom management is anticipating problems and minimizing their impact on learning.
~ Understand how to create self-managers among students.
~ Consider why rights, respect, and responsibility are more productive than a list of rules.
~ Learn how to use "The Law of Least Intervention" to deter misbehavior.
The ultimate goal is to establish a classroom where students feel bonded and connected to their teacher, where they are self-managers and good decision makers, and maximum time is provided to achieve today's high standards. - Carol Cummings
This program is designed for new teachers but all teachers will benefit as they
~ Examine classroom management strategies for beginning teachers that will help launch rewarding careers.
~ Learn ways to bond and connect students to each other and to the teacher.
~ Observe procedures and routines that are rehearsed to promote self-managing students.
~ Understand why it is important to clearly define work requirements in holding students accountable.
~ Realize how proactive classroom management is anticipating problems and minimizing their impact on learning.
~ Understand how to create self-managers among students.
~ Consider why rights, respect, and responsibility are more productive than a list of rules.
~ Learn how to use "The Law of Least Intervention" to deter misbehavior.
Featuring Judson Hixson, Ernestine Riggs and Cheryl Gholar
Your staff will
~ Learn the need to develop a sense of purpose, mission, and possibility.
~ Explore the sense of belonging, safety, and participation.
~ Create teaching and learning that is authentic, engaging, and empowering.
~ Understand holistic teaching as it reaches the whole child - heart, soul, and mind.
~ Consider the three domains of holistic teaching: cognitive, affective, and co native.
~ Explore core processes, strategies, and practices: teamwork, routines and rituals, strategic use of data,and recognition and rewards.
Your school staff will
~ See classrooms of all ages where students never experience humiliation.
~ Learn caring attitudes and skills for a positive discipline classroom.
~ Compare the barriers and the builders of a classroom.
~ Discover how students are empowered by the opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
~ Understand the value of regular class meetings for all students.
~ Watch students develop responsibility, communication,and problem-solving skills.
~ Learn the reasons why class meetings fail.
~ Explore the Eight Building Blocks of class meetings.
As educators become acquainted with this model for intrinsic motivation, they will
~ Learn why motivation is inseparable from culture.
~ Discover the conditions of culturally responsive teaching: inclusion, attitude, meaning, and competence.
~ Examine a scaffolding to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally responsive lessons.
~ Learn new strategies to encourage more students.
Educators will
~ Learn the causes of student misbehavior and low achievement.
~ Help students understand their own role and the teacher's role.
~ Discover how to establish rules that students will enforce.
~ Guide students as they develop responsibility for their own actions.
~ Learn questions that help students determine what they want and how to achieve it.
~ Watch students figure out better ways to solve their problems.
~ Understanding the difference between order and control.
~ Teaching procedures, rules, and consequences.
~ Fundamental approaches to discipline.
~ Tried and true management strategies.
Classroom Management in Action is a practical research-based training program for mastering the nuts and bolts of classroom management. Both instructional and entertaining, it provides educators of all skill and experience levels strategies that decrease behavior problems and increase student social and academic achievement.
4 Modules with 13 Skill Builder videos:
Introduction
~ How Classroom Management Supports Student Learning
Classroom Planning
~ Organize the Classroom
~ Develop Behavior Expectations
~ Develop Routines
This course focuses on teaching students responsible behavior by combining social-emotional learning (SEL) with choice theory. Included are SEL strategies to help students regulate their behavior (restrain impulses, manage stress and anger, self-evaluate, plan effectively, and persevere) and get along with others (take others1 perspective, empathize, demonstrate manners and social skills).
In this course, you will learn how to:
~ create and use specific, engaging strategies for teaching the emotional and social skills all students need.
~ integrate SEL into the academic curriculum.
~ learn skills to deal with any discipline situation no matter how intense.
~ integrate character education into their classroom instruction.
~ gain cooperation and prevent discipline problems.
This course will give you the knowledge and skills to apply previously learned choice theory concepts to commonly occurring classroom discipline problems. As a course outcome, you will develop a personalized plan designed not only to solve discipline problems but also to help students take responsibility for their own behavior.
In this course, you will learn to:
~ solve commonly occurring discipline problems that keep you from teaching and other students from learning.
~ deal with recurring discipline problems and help troubled students plan for improved behavior.
~ create and use a classroom discipline plan designed to prevent problems from occurring.
Learn from experienced educators as they discuss their most effective classroom management techniques.Create an orderly environment that promotes high achievement in your classroom!
Effective classroom management remains a cornerstone of great teaching--and the secret to success for great teachers.
Great classroom managers--indeed, great teachers--aren't born great.They are mentored to greatness.
It's a simple fact: For veteran and beginning teachers, the job of teaching and managing the classroom is getting more difficult every day. Teachers face increasing demands and expectations in every aspect of their jobs. This five-disc series prepares teachers to meet these demands.
The topics covered in this program are:
~ Simple strategies for a great start to every class.
~ Crucial techniques for managing work and students during class.
~ Keys for a strong finish every day.
~ Overcoming potential pitfalls to classroom management.
Featuring Steve Olsen, Robin Fogarty, Brian Pete, Shirley Hord, William Sommers, Dennis Sparks, and Blanch & John Linton
This new program helps you achieve the most important aspect of professional development: implementation in the classroom. Administrators, staff developers, and teachers will learn best practices for ensuring that training impacts student learning. The program covers current innovations, teaches the value of job-embedded professional learning, shows how to avoid one-shot trainings, and supports the institution of high expectations and accountability.
For many years, school discipline has been ranked by both educators and parents as one of the leading problems in our schools. When we look specifically at the data around discipline, we find that non compliance and disrespect, are the two most common issues that teachers express the greatest frustration with on a day to day basis.
Teachers often struggle to maintain classroom order when students are disruptive or noncompliant. These students are often time easily agitated and thus seemingly innocuous events like asking questions, making requests, giving directions, and especially delivering consequences for inappropriate or non compliant behavior serve as triggers. Once triggered subsequent explosive behavior is difficult to curtail and can lead to even more serious behavior issues or classroom disruptions.
In this classroom management strategies and plans module teachers will learn the necessary tools to:
~ Decrease student non-compliant behavior.
~ Intervene early in an escalation.
~ Identify environment factors that can be manipulated.
~ Identify replacement behaviors that can be taught (&serve same function as problem.
This program helps substitute teachers make the most of their initial meeting with students and addresses the top concern of substitutes--classroom management. It presents:
~ Strategies for a smooth start
~ Tips for establishing control
~ Techniques for connecting with students beyond the introduction
~ Strategies for communicating behavior expectations and involving students in maintaining a positive classroom climate
This CD-Rom has been written for busy teachers and subject leaders. It offers a wealth of practical information and gives comprehensive advice and strategies on a wide range of issues that will help with the responsibilities of being a teacher.
This CD-Rom provides helpful information on the following areas of teaching:
~ Newly qualified teachers
~ Getting started in the classroom
~ Setting rules and boundaries
~ How friendly should you be?
~ Dealing with challenging students and situations
~ Resolving conflict
~ Being a good form tutor
~ Changing rooms, changing tutor rooms
~ Planning your staff development
~ Being observed
~ Coping with Ofsted inspections
~ Getting help with problems and being unhappy
~ Teaching sex and relationship education
~ Dealing with difficult questions
~ Using visitors
~ Handling a drug-related incident
~ Finding your way through the maze of assessment
~ Writing reports
~ Parents' evening
~ How to lead rather than direct
~ Emotional intelligence
~ Finding time for yourself.
This CD-Rom has been written for busy teachers and subject leaders. It offers a wealth of practical information and gives comprehensive advice and strategies on a wide range of issues that will help with the responsibilities of being a teacher.
This CD-Rom is full of helpful information for teachers covering areas such as:
~ Newly qualified teachers
~ Getting started in the classroom
~ Setting rules and boundaries
~ How friendly should you be?
~ Dealing with challenging students and situations
~ Resolving conflict
~ Being a good form tutor
~ Changing rooms, changing tutor rooms
~ Planning your staff development
~ Being observed
~ Coping with Ofsted inspections
~ Getting help with problems and being unhappy
~ Teaching sex and relationship education
~ Dealing with difficult questions
~ Using visitors
~ Handling a drug-related incident
~ Finding your way through the maze of assessment
~ Writing reports
~ Parents' evening
~ How to lead rather than direct
~ Emotional intelligence
~ Finding time for yourself.
This course focuses on teaching students responsible behavior by combining social-emotional learning (SEL) with choice theory. Included are SEL strategies to help students regulate their behavior (restrain impulses, manage stress and anger, self-evaluate, plan effectively, and persevere) and get along with others (take others1 perspective, empathize, demonstrate manners and social skills).
In this course, you will learn how to:
~ create and use specific, engaging strategies for teaching the emotional and social skills all students need.
~ integrate SEL into the academic curriculum.
~ learn skills to deal with any discipline situation no matter how intense.
~ integrate character education into their classroom instruction.
~ gain cooperation and prevent discipline problems.
This course will give you the theory and skills to teach students how to take responsibility for their own behavior in school. It will lead you through a series of learning activities designed to instruct you in how to teach your students the concepts of Choice Theory and to plan and implement a program of Responsibility Training in your classroom.
In this course, you will learn how to:
~ determine why some students choose to misbehave.
~ implement a proven approach to improving student behavior.
~ effectively use "Time Outs" to improve behavior.
These programs provide a powerful model and wealth of ideas to help veteran as well as new teachers organize and manage classrooms to improve learning.
Program 1: Who We Are
Make assumptions that help intrinsically motivate students and recognize the qualities that the best teachers have in common.
Program 2: What We Do Proactively
Learn to teach successful procedures, establish consistency, and prepare the learning environment for students.
Program 3: Intervention - What We Do in Response
Understand how to break up traditional lectures with strategies that draw students into learning and explore key approaches that will have a positive effect on all students.
These programs provide a powerful model and wealth of ideas to help veteran as well as new teachers organize and manage classrooms to improve learning.
~ Examine assumptions teachers can make to motivate students.
~ Recognize that not only are good teachers flexible, organized, consistent, patient, and caring, but they are also human.
~ Learn to be proactive: to hold ground, make positive connections, teach procedures, and be consistent.
~ Examine interventions?what we do in response.
~ Design lessons for engagement.
~ Observe strategies that break up the traditional lecture and draw students into the learning.
~ Understand the importance of movement, applause, high-fives, humor, novelty, games, and music.
~ Use consequences effectively to motivate students and learn what to do when consequences do not work.
The critical need in today's schools is to transform them from organizations that produce compliance and attendance to those that nurture attention and commitment The result is highly engaged classrooms that facilitate greater student achievement. - Philip C. Schlechty
This program will show you how to achieve the goals you have set by
~ Recognizing the core of business of the school which is to design engaging academic work for students.
~ Distinguishing the levels of student engagement: Engagement, Strategic Compliance Retreatism, and Rebellion.
~ Learning about the 'Working on the Work' school where teachers work together to create meaningful and engaging learning activities.
~ Ovserving the difference between te Highly Engaged, the Well Managed, and the Pathological classrooms.
~ Creating capacity and examining beliefs about student learning and teachingto shape the vision and drive the mission.
~ Observing how to design word for student engagement integrating the Design Qualities: Content and Substance; Affirmation of Performance; Organization of Knowledge; Affiliation; Product Focus; Novelty and Variety; Clear and Compelling Product Standards; Choice; Protection from Adverse Consequences; Authenticity; Consequences to Intitial Failures.