The powerfully effective method for facilitating positive behavior in the classroom!Brain research and good planning can be combined to prevent and/or minimize discipline problems and off-task behavior in the classroom. Chapters cover:

• Moving from old-fashioned obedience models to effective student self-management skills
• Working with on-task and off-task behaviors: motivation, stress, flow, timing, environment, resources, and more
• Dealing with difficult students and difficult issues, including power, revenge, anger, and poverty
• Planning that facilitates positive behavior
• Using cooperative learning skills
• Teaching social skills
• Using strategies for the self-system
• Focusing on metacognitive skills
• A model for classroom management
• Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
• Bibliography and index