Teaching Self-Discipline: The Responsive Classroom Guide to Helping Students Dream, Behave, and Achieve in Elementary School

by Laurie Badge, Laurie Badge, Suzy Ghosh

Help students develop the intrinsic motivation to take care of themselves, each other, and their own learning! Readers will learn how to build a solid foundation for positive behavior by investing students in the rules. The techniques in this book have helped teachers around the world foster essential social-emotional and academic skills in the classroom creating learning environments where every student can thrive. Packed with real-life stories from K-5 classrooms, this book includes practical strategies creating effective rules that strengthen classroom community, responding to both common and complex misbehaviors, helping students who struggle with behavior due to trauma or toxic stress, communicating with parents and building a network of support for students, and much more!

Genres: Teachers, Professional Development, Teaching, Education, Nonfiction, School

154 pages, Paperback

Published October 26, 2018

Reviews

[The Reading Countess]

✅ Just finished advanced training in responsive classroom, and MAN I wish I had these tools last year!

[Michele]

This book is good for a beginner teacher, but not enough for a veteran teacher with a lot of tools, searching for a bit more. I did appreciate the last section on Unconscious Bias.

[Lisa Wells]

Second time reading, so many helpful tips!

[Donna Marinch]

This book reflects what good teaching should be—supportive, structured, and student-centered. A valuable read for elementary educators.