Author: Elizabeth Breaux

Having worked with "at-risk" students for over 20 years, author Liz Breaux knows "we cannot teach our students until we reach them." This book demonstrates how –- by providing typical situations, along with "What Works", followed by "What Doesn't Work".

• First Impressions: Getting Students on Your Side
  
• The Power of Thanks and Praise: Accentuating the Positive
  
• The Assertive and In-Control Teacher:
• Taking Control of Your Classroom
  
• Implementing Procedures to Perfection: Three Simple Steps
  
• Enforcing Consequences: The "Ifs" and "Thens"
  
• Making Home Contacts: Getting Parents on Your Side
  
• Avoiding Power Struggles: Everybody Wins
  
• The Mobile Teacher: Being Everywhere
  
• The Teacher as Role Model: They Hear What We Do
  

• The Well-Organized Classroom: Like Teacher, Like Students
  
• Effective Instruction: What Does It Really Look Like?
  
• Real-Life Teaching Strategies: Make It Real and They Will Come!
  
• Different Strokes: Accommodating All the Differences
  
• Using Rubrics for Assessment: When They Know, They Do
  

145 pages © 2007

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