Reading your roadmap and gaining control of your classroom

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Determining and teaching specific directions

Using positive consequences Using negative consequences

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Breakdown Class Periods Examine Activities Consider Materials Consider Interaction Focus on Observable Behaviors

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State and explain directions Have students restate the direction-making

sure they understand the procedure Question for understanding Review the directions periodically

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Positive repetition Consistent praise Circulate Scanning if you are unable to circulate Class wide reward system

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State directions Look for students following the direction Rephrase direction as positive statement Give class wide points

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Individualized Appropriate Sincere Descriptive Given matter of fact Personal and private

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Remain calm, matter of fact statements Be consistent Provide for student feedback Use “moving In” Use “taking aside”

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Deal with late slips positively. Students are to sign their name in a

notebook when they enter the classroom. After signing in the student is to take their

seat.

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Determining and teaching specific directions

Using positive consequences Using negative consequences

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Assertive discipline : a take charge approach for today's educator / Lee Canter and Marlene Canter. Canter, Lee. Santa Monica, CA : Canter & Associates, c1976.

Assertive discipline. Resource materials workbook, secondary, grades 7-12 / Lee Canter and Marlene C Canter, Lee. Santa Monica, Calif. : Canter and Associates, c1984.

How To Talk So Kids Can Learn Adele Faber Elaine Mazlish First Fireside Edition 1996

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