Give Em' Five: A Five Step Approach to Handling Challenging Moments with Children in Grades K-6

by Larry Thompson, Susan Bowman (Editor)

Have you ever been faced with a student who is defiant, oppositional, in-your-face and you momentarily lose your ability to handle the situation as well as you would like? The Give Em' Five approach has been used with much success by classroom and special education teachers, administrators, counselors and support staff across North America. This book places at your fingertips 30 case examples of challenging moments and provides specific recommendations for how to handle different situations with students who are attention-seeking, manipulative, apathetic or hostile. Collectively, these cases can help you and your colleagues to gain fresh ideas for how to handle those moments when students need our feedback, but the right words aren't always there for us. In particular, this book will help you gain fresh ideas for dialoguing with students who respond to you with different - Level 1 Compliance - Level 2 Moderate Noncompliance, and - Level 3 Severe Noncompliance

73 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2014

Reviews

[Lacy Lovelace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book for teachers! This is a really quick read. It could definitely be read in a day or two (I had a lot of stuff going on when I was trying to read/finish it.) Basically, it is for the responsibility-centered discipline program. There are 3 levels to compliance/non-compliance. They use a 5 step approach to handle 4 different categories of student behavior. There are many sample dialogues for reference that give you a better understanding of how the 5 step approach looks. They also reference response-ability mats that kids can use as a tool to self-regulate themselves.

I actually went to the conference that Larry Thompson put on in San Antonio. It was very interesting!