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The Purpose-Driven Classroom
Seven Productive Behaviors for Student Success
K–12 classroom educators can use author Daniel L. Vollrath’s productive behavior strategies to cultivate essential student behaviors like observation, self-control, responsible decision making, persistence, attentive listening, cooperation, and organization. Discover actionable tips for teachers to create a positive and productive classroom environment.
Strategies to improve student behavior and productivity
In The Purpose-Driven Classroom, author Daniel L. Vollrath uses dispositional teaching to address productivity and promote positive habits in the classroom. He presents seven productive behaviors that general education teachers can teach to all students across all content areas. In utilizing this book’s productive behavior strategies, K–12 teachers can help students build necessary interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and increase their academic achievement.
K–12 teachers can use this book to:
- Explore seven productive behaviors that are essential to students’ success in the classroom and beyond
- Access a multitude of strategies and choose whichever best suits the classroom
- Consider insights from teachers who have used this book’s strategies and found success
- Utilize chapter-ending charts to plan how to implement the strategies
- Gain quick strategies that work for spontaneous use
Related Topics
Classroom Management & BehaviorStudent EngagementTeacher Efficacy
Additional Information
“This book clearly teams with the classroom teacher to provide opportunities for student success. Every chapter with its tips and strategies can be used with any student. Therefore, if a teacher implements the suggestions, every student benefits, especially those who may need a little more support.”
“The Purpose-Driven Classroom focuses on the seven healthy social, behavioral, and emotional behaviors for student success within schools. It offers educators easy to use resources with examples appropriate to multiple grade levels and subject areas to establish productive and safe learning environments in which all students thrive and become increasingly self aware and responsible for their behaviors. In addition, it offers school leaders a deeper understanding of and ways to establish a comprehensive system for managing student behavior that allow students to flourish in school and beyond. Parents, after-school program leaders, community program managers, and others who work with school-aged students too will find the tools useful for designing and implementing their own behavior system. Vollrath’s practical tools can be easily implemented and adapted for use by anyone who works with students and wants to help them develop the capacity to be responsible, organized, and contributing members of their community.”
