This document provides guidance for substitute teachers on classroom management strategies for dealing with challenging student behaviors. It discusses developing patience, planning lessons, and bringing your own bag of tricks. When dealing with disruptive students, the document recommends building relationships, trust, and self-control while avoiding threats or punishment. Specific conditions that can affect student behavior like attachment disorders and emotional impairments are also outlined.

1. Classroom Management for Substitute Teachers Presented by: Steven Vitto, M.A. Behavior Specialist

4. There will be students who will have problems with substitute teachers

5. ATTACHMENT DISORDER OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANCE DISORDER CONDUCT DISORDER ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER EMOTIONAL IMPAIRMENT ANXIETY DISORDERS FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME ASPERGERS SYNDROME Conditions Effecting Behavior

15. What is Oppositional Defiance Disorder? ODD is a persistent pattern (lasting for at least six months) of negativistic, hostile, disobedient, and defiant behavior in a child or teen without serious violation of the basic rights of others.

16. Students with conduct disorder engage in deliberate acts of self-interest to gain attention or to intimidate others. They experience no distress or self-devaluation or internalized distress.

18. For the child with an Emotional Impairment, diffusing a crisis will often involve reducing anxiety. For the child with Conduct Disorder and effective response should increase anxiety

19. Our Need for Power and Control

22. “ If you know why, you can figure out how….” W. Edward Deming

24. “ Just the facts, mam.”

34. Behavioral offences are wounds… Consequences should heal

35. “ If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be he will become what he ought to be and could be.” Wolfgang Goethe

36. For More Information on Positive Approaches for challenging behavior or having Steve present at your school, Write Steve Vitto at [email_address] Or call him at 231-767-7279 Or send for Steve’s Book, In Search of a Heart, Creating Caring, Conscience, and Character in All Kid (A text in using positive a relationship driven approaches for all children), Copyright, 2007 This 450 page text contains researched based methods for implementing positive classroom management strategies and treating children with severe behavior challenges (Cost: $30.00) This book is also available on audio tape and Audio CD