Interpreting and Responding to Classroom Behaviors - Michael O. Weiner, Les Paul Gallo-Silver, Tal D. Lucas

Interpreting and Responding to Classroom Behaviors

A Guide for Early Childhood Educators
Buch | Softcover
399 Seiten
2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7375-2 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
Focusing on communication, this book discusses practical ways to apply child developmental theories to help address common classroom situations, problems, and worries. It identifies new frameworks and rationales; describes the unique aspects of these children's communication; and offers an easy-to-use language for successful intervention.
"I spend all my time with this kid!" is a typical teacher complaint when challenged by a young child who disrupts the classroom with rebellious, impulsive, worrisome or odd behaviors. It is vital that teachers gain the skills to holistically decipher and respond to these complex classroom situations. By addressing the underlying meanings that motivate children's behaviors, teachers increase the opportunity for change within the classroom setting. Focusing on communication, this book discusses practical ways to apply child developmental theories to help address common classroom situations, problems, and worries. It identifies new frameworks and rationales, such as the troubling child, the testing child, the worrying child, and the hiding child; describes the unique aspects of these children's communication; and offers an easy-to-use language for successful teacher intervention. It also provides an adaptable, week-by-week planning and intervention structure as a way of creating some balance between practicality and theory.

Michael O. Weiner is a licensed clinical social worker and a Portland, Oregon-based child and adolescent psychotherapist. He has a private practice working with children, adolescents, and parents, teaches social work practice at the graduate school level, and provides child development consultation to early childhood educators. Les Paul Gallo-Silver is a clinical social worker and an adjunct professor of social work at Adelphi University School of Social Work in Garden City, New York. He has extensive experience providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults specializing in helping them with sexual, medical and environmental traumas. Tal D. Lucas is a second-grade teacher in Montgomery County, Maryland. She has taught in the primary grades for twenty-three years specializing in reading and literacy. She has spent much of her career as a team leader and has worked as a mentor teacher.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

List of Figures and Tables

List of Challenging Behaviors

Part One

A Different View of the Children in Your Classroom

 1. Children in the Round: A Holistic Approach to Understanding Children

 2. Who Needs a Diagnosis, Anyway? Understanding Behavior as Communication

 3. A Child’s Communication Scaffolding

Part Two

The Children Communicating in Your Classroom

 4. The Child Who Is “Troubling”: Loud and Over Reactive

 5. The Child Who Is “Testing”: Loud and Under Reactive

 6. The Child Who Is “Worrying”: Quiet and Over Reactive

 7. The Child Who Is “Hiding”: Quiet and Under Reactive

Part Three

Pulling Back the Curtain on Specific Communicative Behaviors

 8. A Week-by-Week Guide for Behavior Assessment, Prioritization, and Planning

 9. Distractibility, Daydreaming, and Attention-Related Issues

10. Elopement and “Moving Away”–Related Issues

11. Excessive Clowning

12. Aggression, Bullying, Fighting, Out-of-Control Temper

13. “Hyperactivity”

14. Difficulty Observing Personal Space and Other Boundary Problems

15. Not Speaking

16. Toileting Accidents and Toilet-Related Issues

17. Upsetting Artwork, Writings, and Play

Conclusion: Keeping Your Balance

Appendix A: The Troubling Child Worksheet

Appendix B: The Testing Child Worksheet

Appendix C: The Worrying Child Worksheet

Appendix D: The Hiding Child Worksheet

Appendix E: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 27 photos, appendices, bibliography, index
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 717 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10 1-4766-7375-6 / 1476673756
ISBN-13 978-1-4766-7375-2 / 9781476673752
Zustand Neuware
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