Course Title: Solving Classroom Discipline Problems II
Hours required: 24
Price: $99
Length course offered: 6 Weeks
Instructor: James Thompson [Bio]
Description:
You'll discover how to use a new research-based six-step approach to solve severe and chronic discipline problems, including bullying, fighting, using abusive language, stealing, and refusing to work.
You'll learn how to deal with the special problem of attention deficit disorder, find out how to use time-outs effectively, and see how class meetings can help solve class-wide discipline problems.
We'll cover numerous preventative strategies, including 12 actions you and your colleagues can take to prevent problems from occurring in the common areas of your school, and six practical strategies that can prevent student violence.
We'll look at numerous real-life examples set in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms so you can see how to put the ideas into action in your own teaching situation.
Goals:
You'll gain a new understanding of what motivates severe and chronic misbehavior and, more important, what actions will help you effectively find solutions.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
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Instructor Bio: James Thompson
Dr. James Thompson holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Communications and has over 25 years of experience as a teacher. His distance learning courses, workbooks, and videotapes have been used to train more than 250,000 educators in the art of student discipline. His works include: Teaching Students Responsibility, Dealing With Discipline Problems, Human Relations and School Discipline, Assertive Discipline and Beyond, and Dealing With Difficult Students.
