Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Meet and Greet
2. A Letter of Introduction
3. Tools for Rules and Procedures
4. Are You All Right?
5. Stay Near, Dear
6. Believein Them!
7. Meting Out the Seating
8. Happy Notes to Parents
9. Their Own Notes to Parents
10. Make Them Responsible
11. Stress Success, Not Duress
12. Ethusiasm Breeds Enthusiasm
13. Pry For Why
14. A Laugh is Half
15. Student or Teaching Problem?
16. Learn What to Overlook
17. If You Sweat, They Win
18. Defuse the Bully
19. Hold Private Practice Sessions
20. Speak Awfully Softly
21. Teaching In Small Bites Makes Them Hungrier
22. Saving Gotcha for Behaving
23. Find the Gleaming and Redeeming
24. Join the Ranks of Thanks
25. Humiliation Breeds Retaliation
26. Beware the 90/10 Rule
27. We Care About Those Who Care About Us
28. A Nice, Polite, and Motivated as YOU?
29. Unmask the Mask
30. Don't Let the Mood Brood
31. Who's the Most Positive?
32. Become Interested in Their Interests
33. A Favor as a Lifesaver
34. Admit Your Mistakes
35. Seeing Eye to Eye
36. Bell-to-Bell Teaching
37. Smile, Smile, Smile!
38. Teaching with Urgency
39. Make it Doable and Chewable
40. Brag ABout Them to Others
41. The Diversion Excursion
42. Change the Way They Think
43. Nip It in the Bud
44. Discover the Beams of Their Dreams
45. Work That Body Language!
46. No Rest for the Weary
47. A Little Guilt Trip Goes a Long Way
48. Teach Them to Cope or They'll Create a Way!
49. Listen, Listen, Listen!
50. Only a Fool Loses His Cool