A Teacher's Guide to Preventing Behavior PRoblems in the Elementary Education Classroom includes straightforward, feasible, and evidenced-based strategies designed to prevent behavior problems in K-5 classrooms. With an exclusive classroom focus, this practitioner-friendly book encourages teachers to be proactive in classroom management and guides them through the process of setting up their classrooms to maximize learning while focusing on prevention. Its emphasis on behavior problems before they occur enables teachers to run their classrooms more efficiently and experience less frustration, while also increasing student learning. A well-organized, systematic, and predictable teaching environment helps to prevent behaviors, and this book presents ways to achieve this type of classroom environment. Using real-life classroom scenarios, this guide equips teachers with management techniques that break the common cycle of frustration, aggression, rejection, and hostility, so they can create positive elementary classrooms.

About the Author

Stephen W. Smith is professor of special education at the University of Florida. He is the author of 20 professional books and book chapters and has presented over 200 professional papers and research findings at many state, regional, national, and international professional conferences. Smith was awarded the 2018 Distinguished Researcher Award from the American Education Research Association, Special Education special interest group. Smith is a panel scientist for the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, and is on the editorial board of numerous professional journals in education and special education.

Mitchell L. Yell is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and professor in special education at the University of South Carolina. Yell has published 134 journal articles, six textbooks, 36 book chapters, and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law, is in its 5th edition. In 2020, he was awarded the Researcher of the Year from the Council for Exceptional Children. Yell also serves as a state-level due process review officer (SRO) in South Carolina and is on the board of directors of the Council for Exceptional Children. Prior to working in higher education, Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 12 years.

Book Information
ISBN 9781538155639
Author Stephen W. Smith
Format Hardback
Page Count 254
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 653g
Dimensions(mm) 264mm * 190mm * 20mm