Tactical Teacher

Positively influence the behavior of even your most challenging students. In The Tactical Teacher, author Dale Ripley shares a plethora of tactics, ranging from persuasive dialogue to environmental details, proven to improve students' classroom behavior and increase learning. You'll gain powerful, research-based strategies for addressing disruptions, developing productive student-teaching relationships, and motivating students to embrace learning like never before.Readers will:Consider how the experiences of ancient humans still impact student behavior.Understand the benefits of soft tactics, the risks of hard tactics, and how to make effective use of both.Forge positive relationships with even your most challenging or disruptive students.Explore the ethics of using specific influence and persuasion strategies in the classroom.Help students engage in learning through the tactics portrayed in each chapter.Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: Why Your Students Behave the Way They DoChapter 2: Student Behavior Through the Lens of Natural SelectionChapter 3: Soft Tactics for Helping Your Students Create a Positive Self-ImageChapter 4: Soft Tactics for ReciprocationChapter 5: Soft Tactics for LikeabilityChapter 6: Soft Tactics for the Power of CommitmentChapter 7: Soft Tactics for Making the Invisible VisibleChapter 8: Soft Tactics for Empathetic Persuasion of Students' ThinkingChapter 9: Soft Tactics for Your Classroom's Physical EnvironmentChapter 10: Soft Tactics for Motivating Students by Taking Something AwayChapter 11: Soft Tactics for Persuading Students With the Right WordsChapter 12: Soft Tactics for Motivating Students Through RewardsChapter 13: Soft Tactics for Making a Great First ImpressionChapter 14: Hard Tactics to Use With Extreme CautionChapter 15: Soft Tactics for Knowing When to Influence Your StudentsChapter 16: The Ethics of InfluenceChapter 17: How Your Students Subconsciously Motivate YouEpilogueAppendixReferences and ResourcesIndex