Learning From Behavior: How to Understand and Help 'Challenging' Children in School

by James E. Levine

Book Overview

Understanding children's problem behaviors in school--seeing beyond the surface actions to reveal and name the root needs fueling those actions--is vital to helping the child. Yet, whether teachers in schools or parents at home, adults often make quick, cursory assessments, then an intervention is sprung. Explanations might be sought from the child, who often resists and becomes more distant. Punishment can occur and things are "taken away," but the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578868041
• ISBN13: 9781578868049
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: R & L Education
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

classroom teacher's input

Informative, interesting and relevant to today's classrooms. Practical strategies that seem to support the RTI process of creating a behavior plan for students with the added support of teaching students HOW to be in control of their behavior. I can't wait to give it a try in my classroom and share this book with other teachers at my school.