"Bullying: A Handbook for Educators and Parents" offers a comprehensive exploration of the bullying within public schools, drawing upon research conducted in the United States, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and Canada. It offers insights into the immediate and long-term impact bullying can have upon the lives of students, their families,…

Nurture groups are school-based interventions that offer specialist support for children and young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. Initially developed as an early years intervention in the 1970s, nurture groups dwindled in the 1980s but have enjoyed something of a renaissance over the last 15 years. There are now more…

The recent increase in prison populations has given rise to an unprecedented number of children in the school system with incarcerated parents. To cope with stressors before, during, or after parents' incarceration, children can exhibit a range of problematic and maladaptive behaviors. This article explores the negative behaviors these children…

This review of recent research offers practical suggestions for maintaining discipline in the classroom. The first half discusses, in outline form, techniques for preventing classroom disruption, action to take when problems arise, and when to use punishment. The second half examines specific ways to deal with student misbehavior. An outline lists…

The problem of student crime and violence goes beyond the school to include parents, the community, institutions, and agencies at all levels. This report attempts to identify indicators of disruption in a school system and then makes short- and long-range recommendations for handling them. Some of the recommendations include interpersonal…

This practicum report describes a program to aid in reducing the incidence of disruptive behavior of students through the use of the Adlerian Theory of Psychology. The report contains a general definition of the problem, which was the reduction of the disruptive student behavior, and the objectives to be achieved from the program. There is a…

Describes a disciplinary technique based on a Student Behavior Report that involves immediate feedback for student infractions and cooperation from administrators, teachers, parents, and students. (MD)

This manual takes school practitioners step by step through conducting functional behavioral assessments and using them to plan effective interventions. The authors present a cogent rationale for the use of functional behavioral assessment (FBA), clearly explaining its advantages over traditional approaches to dealing with problem behavior. Basic…

A program to improve the academic skills of San Francisco students and to encourage them to improve their attitudes and behavior met with success. (CK)

Assertive discipline is a slick response to the genuine frustrations of teachers trying to manage large classrooms of energetic students. Assertive discipline panders to teachers' defensiveness about their work and ignores significant rights that students have. (CJ)

Argues for the role of good nutrition in reducing student behavior problems and offers suggestions on what educators can do to improve the eating habits of students. (IRT)

The article pinpoints some successful ways a teacher can direct and support a difficult student by developing a specific point system for social and academic accomplishments. Among suggestions are the use of individual work baskets and task sheets. (Author/PHR)

Within educational settings students can choose to engage in assigned academic activities or other, sometimes disruptive behaviors. This paper reviews recent research on assignment preference, choice, and choosing. Results of these studies show how educators can enhance students' academic behaviors, decrease disruptive behaviors, and improve…

To succeed in traditional classrooms, students must first learn not to talk, fidget, or move around. The neurophysiology field suggests that some students who do not succeed in school fail initially because their physiological needs are being controverted. This article explores the relationship between learning style and the field of…