Elementary, Secondary At Risk Student Classroom Management Behavior Strategies

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The More You Learn, The More You Earn: To teach children about the importance of finishing school, bring in play money. Make 3 piles of money. In one pile, put $19,000; in the second pile, put $27,000; in the third pile, put $50,000. Ask the children to pick which pile of money would they most like to earn when they are grown-ups. Most kids will pick the $50,000 pile. Inform the children that $19,000 is what drop-outs earn; $27,000 is what high school graduates earn; $50,000 is what college grads earn.
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After students have learned the value of school, teach them: "the more you learn, the more you earn." Or, you can teach them this formula: "Each degree doubles the dollars." That formula refers to the fact that a college grad tends to earn twice the salary of a high school grad, but

the person with a grad degree can earn double the salary of a person with a single college degree, and so on. Find devices like this in our Last Chance School Success book (click here to view), shown here. We have hundreds more creative devices in our other books. Don't miss our surprisingly unusual posters (click here) that hammer home these critical concepts.

Change Cage: This device assists young children to visualize how to improve a problem area. Take a cardboard box and cover with tin foil to make it look high-tech. Make a window that goes up and down in the box. This is a change cage. Have the children make before and after pictures similar to those used to show weight loss int weight loss center ads. These pictures should show the progression of change on a problem area the child is working on, such as attendance or learning handwriting. Insert the pictures into the change cage, raising and lowering the window prior to each change in picture, to show kids how change can and does occur.

Harvey Hygiene:Make a bingo game, with a picture of Harvey Hygiene serving as the bingo card. Harvey is a boy in his bathroom in front of the bathroom mirror. Instead of bingo tiles, use pictures of hygiene items, such as a hair brush and deodorant. These items can be clip art, drawn or cut from magazines. Each student gets a unique assortment of hygiene items as their bingo pieces. Instead of saying "B-64" as in regular bingo, you say "This is what Harvey brushes his teeth with every morning." Each child who has a picture of a tooth brush, places that item on Harvey. The first child to use up all their bingo items, wins. Winners can be given hygiene items such as cologne. This bingo game is so popular, your kids will ask to play it. It will help keep their awareness of hygiene high, and you can thread in information on hygiene as you play the game, so you are actually teaching them, while they think they are playing. You can eliminate some chronic problems via Harvey.

Space Bubble: To teach young children about personal space and distance, get a hula hoop for each child. The hula hoop is the child's space bubble. Have the children go through their daily routine with the hoola hoop so that they learn how to keep their space bubble from bumping anybody else's space bubble while in the cafeteria, on the school bus, in the classroom, etc.

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There Must Be 2000 Things You Need to Know By the Year 2000: This device can show kids that even though they may know people who have gotten by without a diploma, all that is going to change in the new millennium. Ask the students to define the following terms they'll need in the new millennium: thumb drive; modem; spam; computer chip; millennium; phishing; ISP.
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Instead of Going Back for More Pain: It is hard to convince kids to stop going back to an abusive boyfriend or other type of harmful situation. You may see many kids going back for more pain. This quick story is a way to help them re-think that: A girl was about to cross a river when a snake asked her to carry him across the river. The girl refused saying that she feared that the snake would bite her if she did. The snake was charming, and talked her into carrying him across the river. As soon as the snake and the girl reached the other side, the snake bit the girl. "How could you do that?" asked the girl indignantly. Replied the snake, "You knew what I was when you picked me up!" Our Child's Guide to Surviving in a Troubled Family book (click here for details) gives you many more impactful ways to help children in pain.

Break Any Other Law of Nature:For kids who insist that they won't get pregnant or catch AIDS via unprotected sex, or be hurt by illicit drugs or drunk driving, ask the youth to break any law of nature, such as the laws of speed or gravity. When the child can't, point out that they can't break this law either.

Will You Make Any Cents in the New Century? To show kids how much they will need an education in the new century, use fun multiple choice questions such as this: For my career in the new millennium, the equipment I am already most prepared to use is A) A computer network B) The internet C) A hair net.

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If you use yesterday's methods with today's students, you can find that nothing works. Even for younger students, you are competing with hundreds of TV channels, electronic games, computers, iPods and dozens of other attention-grabbers that might not have even been invented when you were getting your training to work with students. Updated methods do exist for any age group, and can really streamline the results you get.
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Today's intervention methods are especially designed to work around poor reading skills, disinterest, apathy, distractions, and whatever else is making today's youth so hard to reach. Working with difficult youth and children doesn't have to be so difficult if you switch to more updated methods. Your training probably gave you very few practical, hard-hitting methods that were designed to work with contemporary students. Our site is packed with samples of these more powerful interventions. The Solution Center has thousands of methods to try, click here. But the sampling scattered through the Solution Center won't give you the systematic, comprehensive methods you are going to need with today's youth and children. If you've got little time, but lots of "kid problems," then consider getting thorough help. Our books and ebooks can give the full repertoire of techniques that you need solve your worst kid problems. Just $15 each, our All the Best Answers for the Worst Kid Problems (click here) books and ebooks deliver hundreds of strategies to use right away. These solutions are so innovative and so new, you can't get these answers anywhere else. If you are a veteran youth professional, you will find that these practical strategies were not included in your training. The series includes these titles: Anti-Social/Conduct Disordered Youth, Maximum-Strength Motivation-Makers, and Forgotten Favorite Strategies.

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So many younger children don't read well, and many older youth may also lack reading skills too. You may also be seeing more children who are not readily speaking English, or have difficulty processing information. Because of these concerns, relying on verbiage is going to leave you frustrated a lot of the time. You may even feel like talking "goes in one ear and out the other," and you may be right. When you add in the disrespect, rudeness, and distractibility, you may wonder if mere verbiage can even get the job done any more. The sad truth is that talking alone may not be up to the challenge for either younger or older students.
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So it may be time to give more thought to other modalities. The handouts included in our Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Series provide dozens of handouts that work around poor reading and comprehension skills. These handouts rely heavily on cartoons to communicate, and are also very helpful with children and youth who are not native English speakers. We don't show you too many handouts at our site because they don't reproduce well on the internet, but there are some for you to review. Clicking on the book at right will show you one example.

Consider using our handouts not just with younger students, but with students of any age. They are great with poor readers, and are wonderful ways to reach ELL students. Learn about the series by clicking here. Also, if you want visual interventions, check out our colorful, highly unusual posters. They can pack quite a punch yet sometimes use just a few words. For special sale prices on our resources, click here to go to our Sale Page.

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