Available Materials
 Check Out this Special Offer 
Books
This book is a complete resource guide for motivating and managing
today’s students. It is filled with highly-effective instructional
strategies and prevention strategies for reducing discipline problems.
Included in the book are doable strategies for respectfully intervening
and redirecting students’ misbehavior, and a common-sense approach
for staying out of power struggles. Also found in this book are hundreds
of tips from teachers and strategies for conferencing with students
and parents. This book should be required reading for all educators.
“This is a book that I have on my desk
and I refer to it weekly. It is by far the best book available for
educators on how to motivate and manage today’s students. There must
be over 1000 common sense, doable strategies that can be implemented
immediately.”
Linda Hodgson, Teacher
This extensive handbook provides you with dozens of effective strategies
for managing today’s classroom – doable strategies to help you develop
a positive environment based on trust, cooperation, and mutual respect
where you can teach and students can learn. This is an excellent handbook
for new teachers as well as experienced teachers.
“Thank you for your seminar and this book.
I’ve learned more in one day from you and this book than I did my
entire four years of college. I know this book will help me become
a better teacher.”
Andrea Trosclair
Elementary $ 29.00 (includes shipping and handling) - Order Today!
Secondary $ 29.00 (includes shipping and handling) - Order Today!
There are two Class Meeting books, one for elementary and the other
for secondary teachers.
These books provide the teacher with a step-by-step approach for teaching
students problem
solving, conflict resolution, character education, anger management
and bullying prevention.
The books are filled with hundreds of activities teachers can use
to teach students essential
life skills. Using the Class Meeting concept in your classroom will
take you, the teacher out of the roles of police, judge, jury and
executioner. It will help you, the teacher, gain back teaching time
while teaching students skills that will help them be successful in
life.
“This book helped me to approach my students
and discipline in a positive, practical way. It provided me with all
the strategies I needed to implement Class Meetings. Of all the books
I have on managing students, this is by far the best.”
Tina Jensen, Teacher
Booklets
This booklet is a condensed version of Spencer Henry’s book, Practical
Strategies for Working Successfully with Difficult and At-Risk Students.
The booklet is filled with practical prevention strategies, intervention
strategies and resolution strategies. It can help you develop your
management plan.
“No fluff. Just one strategy after another.
A great resource booklet for everyone who works with children.”
Amy Haechei, Teacher
For years, we educators have tried to gain consistency in our discipline
plans by having the same punishment for the same rules. It has not
worked and will not work. We have tried to develop a lock – step approach
to discipline. This does not work. As principals, if we have heard
it once, we have heard it a hundred times. Teachers say, “I get no
support.” What Spencer Henry, a principal for twenty-three years,
has done, is develop a process for administrators to use with a discipline
committee to help them build a unified, school-wide discipline plan.
This plan helps to bring about consistency without losing individuality
and flexibility, and determine what will be supported and what will
not be supported. This booklet was designed for principals, assistant
principals and discipline committees to help them create their own
unique school-wide discipline plan.
“Everything is provided. It is not a lock-step,
canned approach, but a process that empowered us to develop our own
unique discipline plan. Our teachers love it. I love it. I finally
got consistency. We are all on the same page, and no longer do I hear,
‘I get no support.’”
Eric Bierman, Principal
Most of us who have children were never trained how to raise children.
We parent the way we were parented. That’s all well and good, but
we are in different times. Our children are different; therefore,
we can all use some additional ideas in helping raise our children
and helping them become responsible. This booklet provides parents
or guardians with ideas on how to set limits in a respectful way.
It provides strategies for helping solve most family problems and
teach our children to be accountable and responsible. The booklet
explains techniques our children use on us to help them get their
own way, and provides us with strategies that help us stop nagging,
lecturing or arguing with our children.
“A booklet for all parents…those who do
not have difficult children and those who do. The strategies provided
by Spencer Henry helped me to interact with my children in a more
positive way. This booklet is not filled with a lot of jargon, just
strategies.”
Michele Farthing, Parent / Teacher
This booklet was developed for special education teachers and regular
classroom teachers who teach students with special needs, such as
ADD / ADHD. These students are our students who have a hard time concentrating
and processing information. They often have poor work habits, lack
self control and social skills. These students have low self worth.
This booklet will provide you with dozens of time-tested ideas to
help you help special-needs students become responsible and successful.
A must booklet for all educators who work with special-needs students.
“What this booklet did for me was provide
me with a better understanding of special-needs students and how to
meet their unique needs. It gave me hundreds of ideas on how I can
help these students become successful and lower my frustration.”
Vicki Gatlin, Teacher
There are three main parts of a complete classroom management plan:
prevention, action and resolution. This booklet concentrates on the
first part, prevention – things we can do to pro-act and reduce discipline
problems in our classrooms. In the booklet are proven strategies for
building a safe, secure environment based on trust, cooperation and
mutual respect; an environment that will allow you to teach, and your
students to feel safe so they can learn.
“This is a great resource booklet on how
to start the year where you teach your procedures, expectations and
build your classroom into a community. It provides ideas on how to
teach behavior throughout the school year while you are teaching your
subject. Included are new ideas on rules and how to organize your
rules and consequences that allows you to be firm on your intent and
flexible on your solutions. It empowered me to help my students to
be accountable and responsible.”
Charles Jenkins, Teacher
Action is the second part of a classroom management plan. It does
not matter how many prevention strategies you have, students will
still misbehave. This booklet is filled with effective strategies
that will help you successfully redirect students’ off-task behavior
in a respectful way. It provides you with doable, practical strategies
for staying out of power struggles and the threat routine with our
difficult, non-compliant students. The booklet offers you strategies
for what to do when more than one student misbehaves at a time, or
another student gets involved when you are intervening with a misbehaving
student. Also included is what to do during crisis situations and
how to break up fights. A booklet for all teachers and administrators,
regardless of what grade level.
“Excellent! Excellent! It gave me easy
to implement strategies to help me reduce my stress in working with
difficult students. Not only did it provide me with strategies for
redirecting students’ misbehavior and staying out of power struggles,
but it also gave me strategies for coping with special situations.”
Curt Hovenand , Teacher
The missing part of most classroom management plans is resolution,
that is bringing about change. For many years, we believed that you
change behavior by punishing students. When we punish students, all
we do is make them resentful, rebel, retreat or seek revenge. Spencer
Henry believes you change behavior from within, not without. He believes
you help students develop a plan for changing their behavior. This
booklet was designed to provide you with highly effective strategies
for holding problem-solving conferences with students, parents – even
difficult students and parents. It provides you with an overview on
how to hold class meetings, a procedure for solving class problems.
This booklet presents a problem-solving approach, not a punitive approach
to discipline and bringing about change.
“Two thumbs up! It provided me with a
step-by-step approach for holding problem-solving conferences with
students and parents. I use it as a review before every parent conference.
Another part of the booklet that I especially enjoyed is how to solve
classroom problems that were preventing me from teaching and the students
from learning. This problem-solving approach made the students accountable
and responsible, not me. What a great, peaceful way to approach discipline
and bring about change!”
Judy Tough, Teacher
Desktop Discipline Cards
$10.00 (Includes shipping and handling) - Order Today!
These color coded desktop cards are designed as a quick reference to help you understand students’ misbehavior and develop effective strategies. These cards have been used effectively in a variety of classrooms at all grade levels. They have also been helpful to guidance counselors and administrators.
“The desktop discipline cards are something I used frequently to help me identify the four goals of misbehavior. They also provided me with effective strategies to deal with the misbehavior.” “By using the desktop discipline cards, it forced me to learn to act, not react to misbehavior.”
C. Snyder, Teacher
"After 15 years of teaching special education, I found the Desktop Discipline Cards from Spencer Henry to be an invaluable resource. I tucked them in my top desk drawer and would pull them out when I was trying to understand the motivation behind repeated behavior by certain students. Once I was able to grab a quick glance at the cards and confirm my understanding of the motivation, then I had confidence in my response. After 22 years in special education I moved into a school counseling position. I have found I would refer to these cards when discussing student behavior strategies with teachers. These cards are such a quick and valuable resource for any educator."
Lynn Sommer, Special Education Teacher and Guidance Counselor
Audiotapes
Coming soon there will be audiotapes and a study guide on Motivating
and Managing Today’s Students, A Positive, Practical Approach to Discipline.
Also, coming soon, the books and booklets will be available on CD.
License to Reproduce
Since the materials are copyrighted, they may not be reproduced. You
can receive a license to reproduce any of Spencer Henry’s materials
by contacting him at: shenry@ptd.net
We have a few books and booklets, pre-2007 edition, that we
will sell for a reduced price. These books and booklets are
almost like the 2007 edition. The cover may be different but
the material in the books is the same.
“The First Days of a New School
Year; How to be an Effective, Successful Teacher”
47 pages, almost like “A Positive, Practical Approach to Classroom
Management”
Was $19.00, NOW $12.00!
“The First Days of a New School
Year; How to be an Effective, Successful Teacher”
96 pages, almost like “Motivating and Managing Today’s Students;
How to be an Effective, Successful Teacher.
Was $24.00, NOW $16.00
NOTE: Since these books are not on the order form, you will
need to send us the check or purchase order and let us know
which book(s) you are interested in purchasing. If you are interested
in a number of copies, please call to make sure we still have
them in stock.
|
| How
to Order |
Payment can be made by
- Personal Check
- Money Order
- School Check
- School Purchase Order
All personal checks will be cashed prior to shipment
of the material.
Checks should be made payable to Practical
Ideas for Educators.
With a school purchase order, an invoice will be included with
the material. An order form must be included with all orders. Please allow 2 – 3 weeks for shipping, depending on your location.
|
|
Complete
this Order
Form, then send along with your payment to:
Spencer Henry
Practical Ideas for Educators, Inc.
Suite 101
63 Stoneridge Drive
Ephrata, PA 17522 |
|
