Lead, Follow, or Get Out of The Way

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Lead, Follow, or Get Out of The Way

• Behavior Management Strategies for Boys

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Fair, Firm, and Consistent

• You must be the Bull Elephant!
• Your are the Alpha male!
• Boys need a highly structured work environment to
  achieve maximum academic success

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Morning Procedures

• Before school interactions
• Circulate during morning activities
• Personally interact with each student

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Positive Departure

• As the boys exit they must give you a firm
  handshake
• Remind them of their homework assignments
• Wish them a good evening

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Class Motto

• What do you want to be?
• I want to be strong.
• I want to be smart.
• I want to be healthy.
• I want to be all I can be.

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Classroom Discipline Procedure

• 1. Verbal warning
• 2. Head down on desk
• 3. Timeout
• 4. Loss of free time during recess-walk
  the playing field
• 5. Contact parents (parent conference)
• 6. Bullying not tolerated, immediately sent
• to office

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Lunch Bunch Buddies

• Students select lunch buddies
• Each group meets once a week
• Teacher models how to hold a conversation
• All students participate
• Students and teacher share personal interests
• Time for student to student and student to
  teacher bonding
• Every other Friday the entire class comes back
  for lunch buddies in the classroom

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Controlled Aggression

• The basic premise underlying the arguments
  against dodgeball and throwing snowballs is if
  you prevent kids from playing aggressive games,
  then kids will be less aggressive. In fact,
  there is no evidence that preventing kids from
  acting out their aggression in healthy ways will
  diminish or eliminate their aggressive impulses.
  Instead, prohibiting these activities may
  actually increase the likelihood that the
  suppressed aggression will manifest itself in
  less healthy ways.
• Leonard Sax,
  M.D.,Ph.D.
• 
  2005

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Break Time

• It is crucial for boys to have allotted times for
  organized breaks
• Physical movement helps to relieve stress and
  enhances the thinking process
• Silent speedball-vary rules for each game
• Jumping jacks
• Run in place
• Push ups
• Workout with Billy Banks TAE BO tape

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Physical Exercise

• Boys are very physical and competitive
• Before recess each student has to complete three
  laps around the playing field
• Additional laps are assigned for inappropriate
  behavior
• Dodgeball-the meek shall inherit the game
• Kickball-all students play at least twice a week
• Helps to build teamwork and class unity

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Parent Support

• Parent letter
• Positive Greeting
• Daily routine
• Homework requirements
• Weekly progress report
• Class rules
• Supply list
• Encourage parent participation
• Contact numbers and e-mail address

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Assign numbers

• Pencils
• Take one, leave one
• No mechanical pencils
• Class paper
• Walking in line
• First boy holds the door open
• Straight, quiet, hands to self, no gaps
• Any task fallout of line
• Square all corners

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Always have additional work for students who
complete assignments early.

• Read a book
• Take a Reading Counts test
• Work on handwriting
• Computer time-tutorial

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Closing Thoughts

• Boys are always in perpetual motion
• More use of manipulatives and hands on
  instruction
• Boys need to paraphrase what you have introduced
  or discussed
• Provide opportunities for verbalization of
  feelings