Behavior:The Forgotten Curriculum: An RTI Approach for Nurturing Essential Life Skills

by Chris Weber

To fully prepare students for college, careers, and life, it is essential for educators to nurture students' behavioral skills along with their academic skills. With Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum, you will learn how to employ the most effective behavioral and social skills activities for your particular class and form unique relationships with each and every learner. Through this personalized classroom behavior-management approach, you can anticipate potential problem areas and confidently respond to students in need of intensive and differentiated supports.

Use behavior-management strategies based on response to intervention to:

Understand the importance of communicating the why of behavioral learning to students.
Identify and define the behavioral skills that will most benefit your students.
Model and teach behavioral skills simultaneously with academic skills.
Learn how and when to employ behavioral system supports across all three RTI tiers (MTSS).
Implement formative assessment and other tools for measuring behavioral-skill development and success.
Hear from educators who have successfully applied behavioral-skill teaching in their classroom-management strategies.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Identifying and Defining Behavioral Skill Priorities

Chapter 2: Teaching and Modeling

Chapter 3: Measuring Student Success, Providing Feedback, and Differentiating in Tier 1

Chapter 4: If It's Predictable, It's Preventable: Considerations for Tiers 2 and 3

Chapter 5: Predictable Challenges and Considerations for Implementation

Epilogue

Appendix

References and Resources

Genres: Education

318 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 25, 2018

Reviews

[Veronica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical suggestions for how to incorporate RTI practices to ensure positive student behaviors as well as academic success. Appropriate for secondary level, too, not just younger students. This book details several categories of behaviors (academic skills, mindsets, social skills, etc) and provides an RTI framework for developing these behaviors in the classroom. Includes charts, tables, and other ready-to-use resources.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good website resources and docs that can be downloaded. A lot of common sense stuff tho.

[Cassie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for CAGS class.
Good information and approach to behavior. Plenty of resources provided and ideas that are realistic.

[Larinda Kaye · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great actionable ideas to set up a tiered behavior program.