The bounce should be used to give the student a break from pressure, not a chance to interact. Positive interaction spoils the integrity of the intervention and encourages future misbehavior. Students should know what’s expected of them in the environment to which they are moving, and they should be adequately supervised in that environment. When used only with great caution, antiseptic bouncing is the perfect way to help a child let off some steam.
Timing is everything: Early intervention is critical. And so is understanding the emotional state of students who are challenging your authority. This training presents a powerful strategy that relies on withdrawing attention from a student when he or she is first shows signs of low-level misbehavior. It is a powerful response to shutting down problem behavior.
It’s also a powerful refinement of a century-old strategy, which still affects powerful, dramatic and positive impact on today’s classrooms. The strategy is unique in that it integrates the basic principles of academic remediation into the process: The teacher stops the student, re-teaches, checks for understanding, and sends the student back to work independently. Students are given a prompt, allowed to self-correct, and then asked to identify the interfering behavior – all while never leaving an academic environment.
Classroom Management Benefits for Teachers
- Teachers will learn how to keep a keen and calm mindset for classroom management. They will learn how to read the room and swiftly, positively, and gracefully nullify challenges. And, when challenged, they will appear confident and comforting to their pupils.
- Teachers will learn how to properly arrange and design the classroom environment. They will learn the “Teaching Power Position,” and understand where in the classroom they should – and should not – be. They will also learn how to eliminate positions in the classroom from which students may successfully challenge them, and how to keep their students visually focused on top classroom priorities.
- Teachers will learn how to teach-to and enforce rules and procedures and transform “unsocialized” students into top classroom performers, and teach students how to peacefully coexist in their classroom.
- Teachers will learn how to firmly (but fairly) discipline. They will learn how to stop letting minor challenges rob them of important teaching time, to start teaching every student with confidence and success, and to handle nearly any classroom situation that arises.
Teachers will know...
...how to detect and correct classroom problems without stopping teaching.
...how to avoid power struggles.
...how to set effective limits.
...how to arrange and design the classroom environment for maximum performance (including 15 powerful desk arrangements from traditional to unorthodox).
...how to teach students to behave appropriately in class and in social settings.
...how to zoom through the curriculum like never before.
...how to firmly but fairly carry out disciplinary actions.
...how to NEVER again give multiple warnings or repeated requests!
...how to build and maintain trust with challenging children.
...how to reach at-risk children and turn them into productive classroom members.