Ruth Herman Wells
SED Student Strategies for Special Ed Teachers and Others
Teachers: Are You Using Yesterday's Methods with Today's Emotionally Disturbed EBD Students? "In the past 2 years, Ive had 4-5 students who are diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Obsessive ...
Date Posted: September 27, 2007
Behavior Interventions Build Student Motivation
If you work with youngsters who show no signs of motivation, here's help. Let's start with motivation-makers for students who say "I'll never need school because..." "I'm Just...
Date Posted: September 27, 2007
Behavior Interventions for School Work Refusers
Our Live Expert Help Line at our web site (link below, or call 1-800-545-5736 if you are a youth worker) gets more requests for help with this child than almost any other.
Date Posted: September 27, 2007
Classroom Management Strategies to Stop Classroom Behavior Problems Now
It's amazing that most universities devote just 20% of their teacher training to the real-world issues that dominate most teachers' days. 80% of the typical teacher's training focused on content.
Date Posted: September 27, 2007
Teacher RSS Feeds Can Stop Classroom Management Problems
It may be a new year, but you are probably still dealing with the same old "kid problems." The bad attitudes, disrespect, peer conflict, lying, school failure or family problems didn't change when you flipped the page on the...
Date Posted: September 27, 2007
Motivate Students-- Motivational Strategies You Need Now
The world is getting more and more inhospitable to people who lack that "magic piece of paper." More than ever before, that diploma is opening doors.
Date Posted: September 27, 2007
Help! My Class is Out of Control!-- Get Out of Classroom Management Hell
"They're rude." "They're inattentive." "They're off task." "They're side-talking." Does that describe your class or group? If it does, you're not alone.
Date Posted: September 27, 2007
School Counselor and Teacher Behaviorial Interventions for Better Classroom Management
Here are some of our favorite, most compelling new strategies for the new year. 1. For youngsters who say that they will quit school and go on welfare, ask them to name the states where welfare is still readily available on an...
Date Posted: September 27, 2007
Teachers, Don't Let Your Students Drop Out of School: A Dozen Dynamite Ways to Detour Dropouts
You may have read this headline in your local newspaper this week: "Dropout Rate Getting Worse." The article noted thatt despite all the advancements made in our society, we still do not know how to ensure that we fully educate all of our...
Date Posted: September 30, 2005