Tools for Teaching Web Connection

Why be restricted to paper? The Tools for Teaching Web Connection is designed to provide additional and supplemental teaching tools and information that we couldn't fit into Tools for Teaching or that has been written since publishing. Use this area of our site as a resource to find new and updated information about the Tools for Teaching program.

Online Chapters:

• Tools for Teaching, Chapter 1 - Learning from the "Natural" Teachers

• Discipline Management Outside of the Classroom:
  Selected Chapters from Dr. Jones' Positive Classroom Discipline

• Creating Change in Education:
  Selected Chapters from Dr. Jones' Positive Classroom Instruction

Preferred Activity Time (PAT):

• PAT Bank

• Submit your own PATs

• How Teachers are using PAT

• PAT Tips and Examples from Secondary Teachers

Articles:

• The Missing Link in Mentoring

• Responsibility Training: PAT in Perspective

• Responsibility Training: Stopwatch Overuse

• Title One and Tools for Teaching

• No Child Left Behind: A Plan for Success

• A Limit Setting Moment

• Rules for Bell Work

• Using Tools for Teaching in Columbia, SC

Fred's Monthly Column for EducationWorld.com:

• April 2008 - Preferred Activity Time (PAT): Having Fun with Responsibility Training

• March 2008 - Eliminating Wasted Time

• February 2008 - Dealing with the Unexpected

• January 2008 - Nasty Backtalk

• December 2007 - Backtalk: When In Doubt, Do Nothing

• November 2007 - Responding to Backtalk

• October 2007 - Meaning Business: Exploiting Your Power

• September 2007 - No Means No: The Importance of Consistency

• August 2007 - Teaching Rules and Routines

• May 2006 - Positive Discipline, Part 7: Training the Class to be Responsible

• April 2006 - Positive Discipline, Part 6: Meaning Business

• March 2006 - Positive Discipline, Part 5: Thinking Like a Teacher

• February 2006 - Positive Discipline, Part 4: Visual Instructional Plans

• January 2006 - Positive Discipline, Part 3: No Joy, No Work

• November 2005 - Positive Discipline, Part 2: Instruction Meets Discipline

• October 2005 - Positive Discipline, Part 1: The School Discipline Code

• September 2005 - Beginning the New School Year: Bell Work

• August 2005 - Starting the New School Year

• May 2005 - Responsibility Training Plus Omission Training: Win-Win for Severe Behavior Problems

• April 2005 - Responsibility Training, Part 4: Having Fun with PAT

• March 2005 - Responsibility Training, Part 3: Teaching Students to Hustle

• Feb. 2005 - Responsibility Training, Part 2: PAT, Learning to Give in Order to Get

• Dec. 2004 - Responsibility Training, Part 1:Incentives Teach Lessons

• Nov. 2004 - Meaning Business, Part 5: The Cardinal Error

• Oct. 2004 - Meaning Business, Part 4: Dealing with Backtalk

• Sept. 2004 - Meaning Business, Part 3: Follow Through and Pseudo-compliance

• Aug. 2004 - Meaning Business, Part 2: The Body Language of Commitment

• May 2004 - Meaning Business, Part 1: Calm is Strength, Upset is Weakness

• April 2004 - Escaping the Paper Grading Trap

• Feb. 2004 - Adding Motivation to Mastery

• Jan. 2004 - Beyond Say, See, Do Teaching: Exploiting Structured Practice

• Dec. 2003 - Weaning the Helpless Handraisers, Part 3: Teaching to the Physical Modality

• Nov. 2003 - Weaning the Helpless Handraisers, Part 2: Teaching to the Visual Modality

• Oct. 2003 - Weaning the Helpless Handraisers, Part 1: Reinforcing Helplessness

• Sept. 2003 - Succeeding with Classroom Structure: Rules, Routines, and Standards

• Aug. 2003 - More Time on Task, Less Goofing Off

Research:

• Original Research Overview and Summaries

Other Resources:

• Microsoft Connection

• Message Board

• College Report Page