Improving student behavior : the success diary approach / Ami Braverman.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Modifying Dysfunctional Behaviors: Injecting Personality into the Intervention -- Approaching Dysfunctional Behavior as a Team: Form a Collaborative Triangle -- Agreeing on the Dysfunctional Behavior: Name the Problem -- Consider the Cause for the Behavior: Postulate a Theory About the Motivation -- Finding Alternatives to Dysfunctional Behavior: Define a Required Skill Set -- Time to Address the Dysfunctional Behavior: Make a Success Diary -- Improving Behavior: Encourage a Sense of Capability -- Changing the Dysfunctional Behavior: Monitor for Success

"What if you could use a single set of tools to help children redirect their classroom behavior from dysfunctional to positive? Improving Student Behavior: The Success Diary Approach offers approachable, step-by-step techniques for promoting your students' personal development. This book introduces the Success Diary, a novel, easy-to-use method for involving students in their own behavior modification plans. Designed by an experienced school psychologist, the Success Diary approach takes proven findings from many schools of behavioral intervention and integrates them into a streamlined, adaptable framework for teachers looking to engage with children's unique personalities, skills, motivations, and support systems to create lasting behavioral change. Through these flexible, common-sense guidelines and activities, you can empower your students to participate in working towards better behaviors and healthy social-emotional development"-- Provided by publisher.