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Strategies for gauging and dealing effectively with behavior challenges in classrooms today.
Behavior Management focuses on the practical aspects of the behavior challenges educators face in today's classrooms and schools. The text offers school-wide and individual strategies for measuring, assessing, and dealing effectively with behavior issues, and supports those strategies with meaningful examples and applications.

For courses in Classroom and Behavior Management / Behavior Analysis (Special Education).

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Thomas J. Zirpoli is the Laurence J. Adams Endowed Chair in Special Education at McDaniel College. He is also the Program Coordinator of the Human Services Management graduate degree at McDaniel College and the President/CEO of Target Community & Educational Services, a non-profit agency serving children and adults with developmental disabilities. Dr. Zirpoli has written several books including Understanding and Affecting the Behavior of Young Children, and has dozens of scholarly publications. He has worked with thousands of teachers and parents on the issue of behavior management with a focus on building positive supports within a structured learning environment. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and his B.S. and M.S. from Old Dominion University.

PART 1 Foundations for Understanding and Managing Behavior 1

Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Behavior and Behavior Management 3

Chapter 2 Legal Considerations for Schools 33

PART 2 Understanding Your Students 53

Chapter 3 Diversity in the Classroom 55

Chapter 4 Issues in Early Childhood Behavior 87

Chapter 5 Issues in Adolescent Behavior 117

PART 3 Measuring and Charting Behavior 139

Chapter 6 Data Collection Techniques 141

Chapter 7 Single-Subject Designs 181

PART 4 Strategies for Behavioral Assessment 205

Chapter 8 Formal Behavioral Assessment 207

Chapter 9 Functional and Curriculum-Based Assessment 231

PART 5 Strategies for Increasing Positive Behavioral Supports 255

Chapter 10 Positive Behavioral Supports: Reinforcement Strategies 257

Chapter 11 Cognitive Behavior Modification 289

PART 6 Strategies for Decreasing Behavior 325

Chapter 12 Schoolwide Strategies for Positive Behavior Supports 327

Chapter 13 Individual Strategies for Positive Behavior Supports 353

Chapter 14 Strategies for Specific Behavior Challenges 387

Name Index 429

Subject Index 443

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Behavior Management Positive Applications for Teachers, Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card

Behavior Management Positive Applications for Teachers, Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card

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