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Shouting Won't Grow Dendrites

20 Techniques to Detour Around the Danger Zones

Second Edition
By: Marcia L. Tate

Implement new ways to detour students around misbehavior, using updated research and Common Core-aligned techniques. Deliver brain-compatible lessons, promote student concentration, and support deep learning.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781483350974
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2014
Page Count: 176
Publication date: July 11, 2014

Price: $39.95

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Dispel discipline problems with new classroom management techniques!

Behavioral problems often occur when students are bored or unmotivated. Your best offense is a classroom environment that’s proactive, supportive, and fun. This newly revised edition from education expert, Marcia L. Tate, helps you meet your students where they are. You’ll find 5 new ways to detour students around misbehavior, updated research, new vignettes, and the latest classroom management techniques that you can implement right away.

In a new two color illustrated format, Tate provides a theoretical framework, practical applications, detailed implementation, and reflection opportunity for each strategy introduced. Teachers at all levels will discover Common Core-aligned techniques that will help them to:

• Establish a relationship with students that supports deep learning
• Deliver brain-compatible lessons
• Work with students who have attention deficit disorder and chronic behavior problems
• Promote student concentration and memory with classroom arrangement, light, color, and music

Learn how to improve student learning in today’s challenging social climate. Implement the crucial elements for lasting motivation and engagement with this essential guide!

Praise for the First Edition:
"Teachers of any grade level, Pre-K through adult, can benefit from this book. It is an easy read with useful ideas that are backed up by quality research. Teachers can read about a strategy very quickly, learn why it is important, discover the steps for implementation, and begin reflecting on how to apply the strategy to their own classroom."
—Denise Leonard, Beginning Teacher
Support and Assessment Staff Development Teacher
Torrance Unified School District, CA

Key features

Classroom management is a topic of great concern for beginning teachers, and experienced teachers are often looking to new techniques to try
Teachers love to discover how students think and learn, and this book provides information on brain-compatible learning strategies
Covers chronic behavior challenges such as attention deficit disorder, anxiety disorder, opposition disorder, and conduct disorder
Full of easy-to-implement strategies and activities

Author(s)

Marcia L. Tate

Marcia L. Tate, EdD, is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia. During her thirty-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director.

Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the eight books in the best-selling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites series and four additional books: Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They’re Learning?, 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K–8, and 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning 9–12, and her latest book, Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms that is designed to address both the personal and professional lives of all educators. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the twenty strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.

Marcia received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her master’s degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University.

Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three children: Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher, and nine grandchildren: Christian, Aidan, Maxwell, Aaron, Roman, Shiloh, Aya, Noah, and Alyssa.

Marcia and her husband own the company Developing Minds, Inc. and can be contacted by calling the company at (770) 918-5039, emailing her at marciata@ bellsouth.net, or by visiting her website at www.developingmindsinc.com. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @DrMarciaTate.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Detour: Get to Know Each Student

1. Develop a Relationship With Each Student

What: Creating a Caring Culture

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

2. Expect the Best!

What: You Get What You Expect

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

3. Understand the Symptoms

What: Causes of Misbehavior

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

Detour: Create a Physical Environment Conducive to Learning

4. Light Up Their World

What: Lighting and the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

5. Let the Music Play

What: Music and the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

6. Color Their World

What: Color and the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

7. Stop and Smell the Roses

What: Aromas and the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

8. Create a Natural Environment

What: Room Arrangement and the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

Detour: Engage the Brains of Your Students

9. Use Brain-Compatible Strategies

What: Engaging the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

10. Hook Them Into Relevant Lessons

What: Attention and the Bain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

11. Let Them Talk!

What: Conversation and the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

12. Let Them Move!

What: Movement and the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

13. Keep Them Laughing

What: Humor and the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

Detour: Develop a Proactive Management Plan

14. Teach Your Rituals

What: Establishing Your Procedures

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

15. Accentuate the Positive

What: Creating an Affirming Classroom Environment

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

16. Celebrate Good Times, Come On!

What: Celebrations and the Brain

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

17. Use Low-Profile Interventions

What: Intervening Appropriately

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

18. De-emphasize the Negative

What: Consequences For Misbehavior

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

19. Get Help With Chronic Behavior Challenges

What: Managing the Difficult to Manage

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

20. Solicit Parental Support

What: Parents on Your Side

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Classroom Application

Reflection

Bibliography

Index

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