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Reflective Practice
THE Tactical
Teacher
PROVEN STRATEGIES TO POSITIVELY INFLUENCE STUDENT LEARNING & CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR
Teachers often find student behavior a mystery. But regardless of whether a student is hardworking and compliant or disengaged and resistant, it’s a teacher’s job to motivate and empower each student to be an engaged learner and a vital contributor to the classroom community. In The Tactical Teacher: Proven Strategies to Positively Influence Student Learning and Classroom Behavior, veteran educator and school leader Dale Ripley provides K–12 teachers with essential, researchbased tactics designed to forge positive teacherstudent relationships, eliminate disruptive classroom behaviors, and motivate learning.
Readers will:
• Forge positive relationships with even the most challenging or disruptive students
• Consider how the experiences of ancient humans still impact student classroom behavior today
• Influence students to engage in learning with enthusiasm and commitment
• Understand the benefits of soft tactics, the risks of hard tactics, and how to make effective use of both
• Explore the ethics of using specific influence and persuasion tactics in the classroom
Visit go.SolutionTree.com/behavior to download the free reproducibles in this book. “I have taught a lot of challenging students in my career. I know for sure that if I had used the strategies described in this book with my one hundred toughest students, ninety-five of them would have been cooperative and successful learners in my classroom.”
—Tara Crouter
Vice Principal, Kitaskinaw Education Authority, Alberta, Canada
“The Tactical Teacher is an insightful and creative look at the artful psychology of teaching and what effectively influences these beings we call students.”
—Robyn Shewchuk
Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada
“As a teacher in a nonpublic special education school that specializes in students with behavioral issues, I use these tactics every single day. Dale Ripley effectively presents compelling research for every tactic that not only reinforced what I already believed to be true but inspired me to redouble my efforts in the future.”
—Neil Wrona
Social Studies Teacher and Technology Facilitator, Baltimore, Maryland
