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:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Why Your Students Behave the Way They Do

Chapter 2: Student Behavior Through the Lens of Natural Selection

Chapter 3: Soft Tactics for Helping Your Students Create a Positive Self-Image

Chapter 4: Soft Tactics for Reciprocation

Chapter 5: Soft Tactics for Likeability

Chapter 6: Soft Tactics for the Power of Commitment

Chapter 7: Soft Tactics for Making the Invisible Visible

Chapter 8: Soft Tactics for Empathetic Persuasion of Students' Thinking

Chapter 9: Soft Tactics for Your Classroom's Physical Environment

Chapter 10: Soft Tactics for Motivating Students by Taking Something Away

Chapter 11: Soft Tactics for Persuading Students With the Right Words

Chapter 12: Soft Tactics for Motivating Students Through Rewards

Chapter 13: Soft Tactics for Making a Great First Impression

Chapter 14: Hard Tactics to Use With Extreme Caution

Chapter 15: Soft Tactics for Knowing When to Influence Your Students

Chapter 16: The Ethics of Influence

Chapter 17: How Your Students Subconsciously Motivate You

Epilogue

Appendix

References and Resources

Index