Catch'em Being Good: Approaches to Motivation and Discipline

Presents the rewarding applications of positive discipline based on warm teacher-child interactions. Offers specific techniques, such as positive attention, soft reprimands, response costs, peer support, daily report cards, and student self-evaluation and instruction, as ways to deal with chronic lack of attentiveness, incomplete classwork, and poor writing. Uses real-life situations to demonstrate the effectiveness of behavioral techniques in helping children with emotional, behavioral, and academic problems. Based on research by Dr. K. Daniel O'Leary.