1st Edition

Improving Student Behavior The Success Diary Approach

By Ami Braverman Copyright 2019
    95 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    95 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    What if you could use a handpicked set of tools to help children redirect their classroom behavior from dysfunctional to positive? Improving Student Behavior: The Success Diary Approach is a step-by-step guide to promoting your students’ personal development. This book introduces The Success Diary, a novel, easy-to-use method for involving students in their own behavior modification plans. Designed by an experienced school psychologist, this guide consolidates approaches from various schools of behavioral intervention and integrates them into a streamlined, adaptable framework for teachers looking to engage with children’s unique personalities, skills, motivations, and support systems to create lasting behavioral change. Through these flexible, common-sense guidelines and activities, you can empower your students to participate in working towards better behaviors and healthy social-emotional development.

    Check out the author's blog at https://materialpsychology.com/blog.

    List of Concept Boxes

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction: Modifying Dysfunctional Behaviors: Injecting Personality into the Intervention

    Chapter 1. Approaching Dysfunctional Behavior as a Team: Form a Collaborative Triangle

    Chapter 2. Agreeing on the Dysfunctional Behavior: Name the Problem

    Chapter 3. Consider the Cause for the Behavior: Postulate a Theory About the Motivation

    Chapter 4. Finding Alternatives to Dysfunctional Behavior: Define a Required Skill Set

    Chapter 5. Time to Address the Dysfunctional Behavior: Make a Success Diary

    Chapter 6. Improving Behavior: Encourage a Sense of Capability

    Chapter 7. Changing the Dysfunctional Behavior: Monitor for Success

    Biography

    Ami Braverman, PhD, is an experienced School Psychologist and Behavior Intervention Specialist. He is the creator of MaterialPsychology.com, a back-to-basics self-help toolbox for teachers.

    He blogs at https://materialpsychology.com/blog and tweets at https://twitter.com/MaterialPsych.