Posts belonging to Category Managing Behavior
Posted by Chip on January 22, 2010
Thanks to all the wonderful people at Responsive Classroom, you’re now seeing a new-year, new-decade look for my blog, Yardsticks4-14.com. You’ll find that it’s now easier to post and find comments from other readers on any topic of interest related to child development, parenting, teaching, school, and educational issues. It’s also now easier to be [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Managing Behavior, Positive Attributes, Uncategorized |
Tags: behavior challenges, children's positive attributes, children's strengths, understanding children, what's normal for my child | 
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Posted by Chip on November 2, 2009
It’s sort of a trial balloon to see if there’s enough interest to establish a dedicated parent page on the blog—one where we could have sections for various ages or topics of special interest to parents.
Here are some concerns parents often ask about. Are any of these ones you might want to explore with me [...]
Categories: Managing Behavior, Parent Questions and Concerns |
Tags: Managing Behavior, parent concerns, parent questions, Parent Questions and Concerns | 12 Comments »
Posted by Chip on September 21, 2009
The first month of school is not even over yet, but the honeymoon may be.
Teachers often refer to the first few weeks of school as a “honeymoon” period when children are getting to know their new teacher and classmates and tend to be more or less on their best behavior. It doesn’t take long, however, [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Managing Behavior, The School Year |
Tags: Books, Caltha Crowe, Developmental Needs, Managing Behavior, Solving Thorny Behavior Problems | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on March 20, 2009
A wonderful blog to link to from this one is Rae Pica’s “Pica Perspective.” Just click on the blog’s name to the right, under “Blogs I Like,” and find her February 27 entry. In it, she notes the flurry of research and press about the positive influence of recess on school behavior and performance. Of [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Managing Behavior, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: children's need for play, Developmental Needs, importance of play, importance of recess, Pica Perspective, Rae Pica, Responsive Classroom approach | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on March 16, 2009
Well, last week, we did it again. Tinkered with time, moved our clocks forward a little earlier and fooled ourselves into thinking we can squeeze just a little more out of life by building in as much daylight as possible.
If you want to know what price we’re all paying for this, consider that we’re a week [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Managing Behavior, The School Year |
Tags: children's need for movement, children's need for sleep, Developmental Needs, John Ratey, Managing Behavior, The School Year, Time to Learn | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on July 28, 2008
The last line in the book I’m about to recommend reads, “This is how school can sound.”
Whether you’re about to enter your first classroom or have been teaching for 20 years, I can think of no better book to recommend to you this summer then Paula Denton’s The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language That [...]
Categories: Books, Managing Behavior |
Tags: Managing Behavior, Northeast Foundation for Children, Paula Denton, Power of Our Words, Responsive Classroom approach, teacher language | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on April 2, 2008
Sometimes I have to be reminded how important it is to go back to the beginning with children when trying to solve a social problem between two of them, whether it is in the 2nd or 5th grade. The problem itself may seem insurmountable at the time. It could be about friendships or about a [...]
Categories: Building Community, Managing Behavior |
Tags: Building Community, conflict resolution, Managing Behavior, problem-solving with children, Ruth Charney | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on December 13, 2007
Recently, at a staff meeting at our school, we had a wonderful presentation about the effect of trauma on learning and the way the brain reacts in times of stress for children who have experienced trauma in their young lives. It had been a particularly hard day at school, and it was just the first [...]
Categories: Holidays and Traditions, Managing Behavior, The School Year |
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Posted by Chip on November 1, 2007
Children come to understand right from wrong from different perspectives at different ages.
These perspectives have a cumulative effect on the way children think about the world and their place in it, though some children may stay on the lowest rung of the ladder because of overly punitive parenting, abuse, or neglect. The approach to discipline [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Managing Behavior |
Tags: Carol Gilliagn, Kohlberg's hierarchy, Managing Behavior, moral development, teaching right from wrong | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on September 27, 2007
Teachers and principals should address “mean teasing” as soon as it appears at the beginning of the school year so all children know the grown-ups are paying attention and giving children strategies to deal with these issues. Unchecked, teasing rapidly turns to bullying.
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Categories: Managing Behavior |
Tags: bullying, challenging behaviors, Managing Behavior, teasing and taunting | 2 Comments »
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