Managing Student Behavior

For All Levels

A quick read packed with relevant tips and strategies for both new and veteran teachers

What defines great teachers? They…

• Have the capacity to care about their students and the ability to let it show.
• Establish procedures that become routines.
• Have the presence that attracts students’ attention.
• Are professional in both appearance and actions.

• Have keen withitness to see all and hear all.
• Create the best possible seating assignments.
•  Use immediate, subtle redirections to keep minor misbehaviors from snowballing.
• Follow up on all redirections to ensure compliance.
• Create solid, comfortable behavior plans with expectations, consequences, and rewards.
• Use their behavior plans with consistency.
• Have patience with the “non-compliant” and the fortitude to never give up on them.
• Privately conference with students without “backing them into corners.”
• Keep their composure during challenging times.
• Are vigilant and responsive to bullying.
• Take pride in their instruction.
• Maintain high levels of student engagement.
• Deliver instruction with clarity.

Every teacher has a few bad days. The difference between a poor teacher and a great teacher is that the poor teacher complains while the great teacher regroups and rallies.

Good Luck!
Jim Shaulis

Reviews

If there were ever a teachers’ resource that summed up the most effective student management strategies in a concise and clear manner, this is it. Managing Student Behavior For All Levels is a unique and valuable resource written by a gifted educator who has spent over 40 years as a teacher, administrator, and professional development consultant. Jim Shaulis details the teacher behaviors necessary to provide the best possible classroom environment to ensure positive relationships, raise student achievement and reduce teacher stress. It is a must read for beginning teachers, veteran teachers and all those in between.

Dick Steinman
Professional Development Specialist
Sarasota County Schools

What a practical and thorough resource for classroom teachers! Jim is open and honest in this comprehensive look at classroom management. The book is full of “Spot on” examples and loaded with insightful “tips.”

Sharen Lewis
International Middle School Trainer and former secondary English teacher