Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School - Softcover

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In the 18 years they’ve worked together, Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky–whose book Challenging Behavior in Young Children won a 2007 Texty Award for textbook excellence–have written a series of books unique in education. Combining Barbara’s three decades as a teacher and education consultant with Judy’s writing skills, their texts bring readers solid research and practical strategies in a reader-friendly style.

Barbara has presented workshops and keynotes on challenging behavior across North America; acted as chief consultant for Facing the Challenge, an instructional DVD based on Challenging Behavior in Young Children (Devereux Early Childhood Initiative, 2007); and advised the Addressing Youth Violence Project for Western Nova Scotia. She has taught at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and Concordia University in Montreal.

Judy, a freelance writer specializing in education and health, joined Barbara in writing The Daycare Handbook (1991). In 1999, their bestselling Meeting the Challenge was selected by the National Association for the Education of Young Children as a Comprehensive Membership Benefit. Judy’s articles have appeared in the Reader's Digest, the Los Angeles Times, and other magazines, newspapers, and textbooks. In 2004, she won several awards for her contributions to a history of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC.

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Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School

Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky

Once again, the renowned team of Kaiser and Rasminsky -winner of a prestigious Texty Award for textbook excellence in 2007 -has written a compelling and necessary resource for teachers and educational professionals everywhere. Their new book presents in-depth background information and strategies to help pre-service and practicing teachers understand, prevent, and address the behavior problems found so often in today s schools. The evidence-based techniques at the heart of the text work with the most difficult behaviors, benefit every child in the classroom, and can be used alone or together, creating tools suitable for many different children and situations. The book s academic rigor and conversational tone make Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School an essential "survival manual" for novices and experienced teachers alike.

Special Features:

• Practical, realistic, evidence-based techniques enable new and seasoned teachers to prevent challenging behavior and respond to it in a variety of effective ways.
• The stories of two students, Andrew and Jazmine, bring alive both facts and strategies.
• Information synthesized from many different disciplines provides a wider perspective and a greater choice of approaches.
• Comprehensive discussion of self-reflection relates self-awareness to effective teaching.
• Emphasis on the teacher-child relationship and concrete suggestions for building relationships with children with problem behavior show teachers how to enhance the power of any strategy they use.
• In-depth information about diversity and the influence of culture helps make teaching more culturally responsive and enables teachers to avoid misunderstandings that lead to inappropriate behavior.
• A chapter on inclusion describes how to prevent and respond to difficult behavior in children with disabilities, who are now likely to be found in every classroom.