Positive Discipline in the Classroom:

Connectedness

• http://www.whatkidscando.org/studentsasalliesintro.html
• http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/
• Involving children in finding solutions to their behavior problems - An adapted excerpt from Teaching Children to Care by Ruth Sidney Charney  - http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/newsletter/16_4NL_1.asp
• http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/archives/shore.shtml
• Handling Difficult Situations
  Handling Difficult Students
  The ABCs of Bullying Prevention

  Articles on Parent Teacher Collaboration: http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/archives/parent.shtml

• Family Meetings:

• http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/yf/famsci/fs522w.htm
  http://www.familyeducationcenter.com/Fmeetings.htm
  http://www.theparentreport.com/resources/ages/teen/family_life/239.html
  http://www.communitycollaboration.net/id391.htm
   Encouragement meeting for couples http://www.aish.com/family/marriage/Getting_Closer.asp

  Class Meetings. http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev012.shtml

  Montessori approach to Education with its emphasis on social connectedness and its holistic, respectful and encouraging approach is very much parallel to Adlerian psychology.

  Why Babies don’t need toys: http://www.montessorimagazine.com/magazinebody19.html

  Practical steps to make homes welcoming to small children. http://www.montessorimagazine.com/magazinebody14.html

  The Montessori Way: An Education For Life  : http://www.montessori.org/sitefiles/excerpt_montessori_way.pdf

  Montessori approach to Eldercare stresses self-reliance, respect, social connections and intergenerational relationships.  Montessori principles can indeed help us achieve our potential at the beginning and towards the end of our life journey.

  Some of the Montessori principles are:
  • Learning occurs in a cooperative atmosphere marked by social interaction and peer teaching.
  • A primary goal of Montessori education is to foster competent, responsible, adaptive citizens who are lifelong learners and problem solvers.
  • Learning takes place through the senses. Students learn by manipulating material and interacting with others. These meaningful experiences are precursors to the abstract understanding of ideas.
  • The individual is considered as a whole. The physical, emotional, social, aesthetic, spiritual, and cognitive

  FAMILY FUN:

  Family Pastimes games foster problem solving skills and a spirit of cooperation not competition among players.  www.FamilyPastimes.com 

  The Jessup Ranch in Colorado offers family vacations at a working ranch www.sylvandale.com/

  RESOURCES, BOOKS FOR CHILDREN:

  Elizabeth Crary's publications that teach children problem solving skills, understand their feelings, conflict resolution skills, etc.  http://www.parentingpress.com/index.htmlDealing with feelings http://www.parentingpress.com/bk_feelings.htmlhttp://www.parentingpress.com/media/dwd-sidebar.html
  Articles on feelings http://www.parentingpress.com/tip_archive.html#feelings
  Positive self talk http://www.parentingpress.com/t_051001.html
  Anger management http://www.parentingpress.com/t_040724.html 

  Anger Management webquest for kids : lots of useful tips for teens etc.

  http://homepages.wmich.edu/%7Em5fargo/introduction.html

  www.stopbullyingnow.com 

  How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger by Elizabeth Verdick, Marjorie Lisovskis

  Books on Parenting  (in addition to the ones listed in the 'Adlerian Resources and Links' page)