Description
No one likes to have valuable teaching time wasted by misbehavior in the classroom. It can be frustrating for teachers and distracting for other students. Having a plan in place and some tools at your fingertips will avoid wasted instructional time and get you and your students back on track efficiently.
In “Essentials for Teaching – Best Practices for Addressing Behavioral Issues,” Lisa Van Gemert helps you plan ahead for specific trouble spots such as transition times, which is when many issues happen. She also provides a variety of tools, such as practicing good behaviors, modeling, and designing good consequences, to help you focus your efforts on what students really need.
In this course, you will learn:
- Common misbehaviors that need to be addressed
- How theory drives your method of invention
- A variety of intervention strategies that you can use every day
- 11 helpful tips for getting behavior back on track
Lisa Van Gemert shares best practices in education with audiences around the world using a combination of neuropsychology, pedagogy, experience, humor, technology and sheer fun. She is an expert consult to television shows including Lifetime’s “Child Genius,” and a writer of award-winning lesson plans, as well as numerous published articles on social psychology and pedagogy and the book, Perfectionism: A Practical Guide to Managing Never Good Enough. A former teacher, school administrator, and Youth & Education Ambassador for Mensa, she shares resources for educators and parents on her website giftedguru.com and is co-founder with Ian Byrd of the Gifted Guild, a professional community for educators of the gifted. Lisa and her husband Steve are the parents of three sons and live in Arlington, Texas.
