Veteran educator Margaret Berry Wilson concisely (in under 40 pages) offers tips you can use right away to help children struggling with authority return to productive learning. You ll discover:
- Why children defy authority (two possibilities: they could be hiding academic challenges or compensating for feelings of insignificance)
- Proactive ways to foster cooperation (for example, build a positive, one-on-one relationship and reinforce effort and progress in choosing cooperative behavior)
- Ways to de-escalate defiance in the moment (staying calm yourself is one essential strategy)
- What to do if a child continues struggling to cooperate (one suggestion: an individual written agreement that breaks down being cooperative into specific behaviors)
- How to talk to parents about defiance (a key strategy: frame the discussion in terms of how the child s behavior is harming his or her learning)
Noticing other common misbehaviors? Check out all the books in this series. Each one zeroes in on a behavior listening and attention challenges, disengagement, teasing, cliques, tattling, silliness and showing off, too much physical contact, dishonesty, or frustrations and meltdowns with practical strategies from the Responsive Classroom approach, a research-based way of teaching associated with greater teacher effectiveness, higher student achievement, and improved school climate.