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Book SynopsisHappy Class: The Practical Guide to Classroom Management is a teacher's manual for creating safe and happy classrooms for students and staff. One of the top reasons teachers leave the profession is due to problems with classroom management. This guide provides practical solutions to common classroom concerns. Happy Class will help you to arrange the physical layout of the classroom, positively address challenging behavior, problem solve, meaningfully work with other professionals, and create your own personal and professional happiness. This book is intended for new teachers, experienced teachers, administrators, collaborating professionals, and post-secondary educators. Whether you are struggling with a specific student or just need encouragement or validation this guide will help you to create a Happy Class.
Trade ReviewI'm so glad that the author of this handbook, Dr. Jenna Sage, reached out to me to put a copy of it in my hands and on my heart. I love the empowerment that the front cover represents and it only gets better from there as you dive in and turn the pages for practical suggestions on how to manage unwanted behaviors as you shape them into desired behaviors. I especially connected with the section on the functions of behavior. Behavior helps students communicate to get their needs met…. Once we can see beneath those behaviors to get to their root cause, we can offer appropriate replacement behaviors to equip and empower students to soar more successfully. If you strive for that Happy Class, then this book is for you. * The Corner on Character *
Dr. Jenna Sage has found a way to both encourage and equip teachers to manage classroom behaviors in a way that builds a positive classroom climate for both students as well as their teachers. Attending to the heart of the teacher in this process is crucial to its success. I would recommend this book for every beginning and veteran teacher so that they too can be happy in their work with kids. -- Vicki Caruana
Dr. Jenna Pollard Sage has provided practitioners with a user-friendly guide that will give staff members interventions they can use the very next day after reading this book. Dr. Sage is a master at taking a small environmental change, pairing it with a replacement behavior, and revising the response feedback, to create a high return on investment. If you are a new teacher, a seasoned teacher, or a professional development trainer, you will enjoy the resources in Dr. Sage's book. It is with great admiration for her work that I highly recommend this book. -- Laura Riffel, Author
Happy Class is a very easy to read with book with real life experiences that incorporates ABA principles into classroom management. I was impressed how the content was applied to both elementary and secondary classrooms. Any teacher, new or experienced, can learn some new strategies to add to their classroom management toolbox. -- Stephanie Martinez, Educational Trainer
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One: Organizing for Happiness Organizing for You Organizing for Others Organizing for a Substitute Organizing for Students Chapter Overview and Reflection Questions Chapter Two: Everything You Need to Know You Can Learn from a Kindergarten Teacher Establishing Classroom Rules and Possible Outcomes Utilizing Instructional Time and Timely Transitions- Chocolate to Chocolate Lost and Forgotten Procedures Chapter Overview and Reflection Questions Chapter Three: Function Junction Why Does this Keep Happening? Understanding the Functions of Behavior Replacing the Challenging with What Works: Replacement Behaviors Interventions Strategies Aligned to Function Chapter Overview and Reflection Questions Chapter Four: Myths About Consequences What Happens After Time In or Time Out: The Overuse of Exclusionary Practices Alternatives to Exclusionary Practices Prevention is the Best Medicine Chapter Overview and Reflection Questions Chapter Five: Opposites Attract: Interventions Aligned to Challenging Behavior Defiance Non-Compliance Lacks Motivation Needs Control Disruptive Impulsive Off-Task Chapter Overview and Reflection Questions Chapter Six: Focus on What is Right Behavior is Communication Brain Science and What we are Learning about Positivity Incorporating Positive Behavioral Interventions into the Classroom Chapter Overview and Reflection Questions Chapter Seven: Data is More than a Four Letter Word- Using a Four Step Problem Solving Process- 12 pages The Five W’s of Data Types of Data Collection Asking the Right Questions: Analyzing your Data Chapter Overview and Reflection Questions Chapter Eight: Who’s in Charge? Changing Our Own Behavior Avoiding Burn-out: Patience, Thankfulness, and Mindfulness My Personal Behavior Plan Being the Best Me in a Group of We Chapter Overview and Reflection Questions Conclusion Additional Resources About the Author
