http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/behave/homepage.html
The purpose of this home page is to provide a format that allows school personnel, parents, and other professionals to gain access to information, to share effective practices, and to receive ongoing consultation and technical assistance concerning the full range of behavior problems and challenges displayed by children and youth in school and community settings, as well as other behavioral issues that may affect their success in school. There is a fairly long navigational menu running down the left side of the home page. There is a tremendous amount of information presented on this page.
http://disciplinehelp.com/home.cfm
This website has a home page with no information other than 7 icons to connect to the following pages; Solutions for Handling 117 Misbehaviors, Behavior Management Overview & Foundations, Order Resources, Behavior of the Day, Discussions, Contact Us & Visit the Master Teacher. They are easy to navigate to and from and the Information is useful to professional and parents.
To get to the Behavioral Management page of this site, you need to click on Classroom Management on the home page. From there you click on Behavior Management. On this page alone there are over 30 new sites listed that you can link up to with regard to Behavior Management techniques. Simply clicking on the "Back" button returns you to the Behavior Management page. There is so much useful information, it is easy to "get lost" in it but the way the site has been set up, it is easy to find your way home. A great site. All the information presented in an appealing way.
http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/eres/doc/eres/EDSPC715/715HomePage.html
What a great site! It won a Golden Web Award for creativity, integrity, and excellence on the web. The site is being updated so there are sites that are under construction but this in no way hinders the usefulness of the site. There are lots of visuals and printed information done in such a way that you don't feel overwhelmed but excited to see all you can. It is jam packed with relevant information and useful activities that are presented in a professional way. You can also hook into a Bulletin Board (9 pages full of ideas) where you can post information regarding other people's experiences in order to share with others. There are no problems jumping from page to page as you always end up back home with the sites you have visited highlighted.
http://www.cec.sped.org/bk.focus/daniels.htm
This is a great web site that's very easy to access and navigate. It provides you with a lot of information on what may be the cause of these behavioral problems and suggestions on treating them. In the margins of this web site are brief "tidbits" of information on assessing & handling these behavioral issues. This is a great website to familiarize yourself with terms and different behavioral issues. To further your research, at the end of the website is a list of additional readings and resources.
http://www.disciplinehelp.com/instruct/main.htm
A large web site geared for the instructor or teacher. It provides you with various methods for handling student misconduct. It covers all variables in different discipline situations. It includes areas such as definitions, programs, objectives, causes and needs of children, motivators of discipline and behavior management. This web site is great for teachers as it educates the educator on handling and preventing these situations. Also at the end are links to other websites and further readings.
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/285.html
This is a short but informative web site for people in classroom environments. It shares different lesson plans, for groups of students or individually, that relate to behavioral and discipline issues. The objective is more of a moral or value lesson designed to teach students respect. This is great to start off with early in the year or to use with mild behavioral problems.
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu9.html
This is a very lengthy website that was easy to find and user friendly. It covers everything from background, definitions, different research and its findings on discipline to classroom management. It is geared for the teacher, and training her/him for handling different types of behavioral students. This is a good web site because it covers effective and ineffective disciplinary practices based on research. This also provides you with lists of resources at the end of the web page.
http://users.aol.com/churchward/hls/techniques.html
A short but well laid out web page. Not to easy to find but worth a visit. Has 11 techniques that you can use in your classroom to help you achieve effective group management and control. From this you can link to other web pages and continue your research.
This is an amazing web site. It opens up with a hand drawn picture, by a primary school student, of one person bullying another. The caption under the picture states: "Share your stories, add your voice, take a stand." Scrolling down the page takes you to a list of personal stories, written by individuals of all ages and from all places on the globe. Clicking onto any one of these personal pages, lets you into someone's feelings of what it is truly like to be bullied. You feel what these people actually lived through. How traumatic their experiences, so much so, that many times thoughts of suicide were entertained. If you have never been a victim of bullying, or known someone who has, you cannot imagine what a victim experiences and the life long implications it has on them. The sharing button allows one to view media coverage, related web sites and research. One research paper I found very helpful was Eric Digests (Bullying in Schools). It gave a wealth of information on the extent of the problem, characteristics of bullies and victims, consequences of bullying and intervention programs. This is a wonderful site. One could almost say it provided, as closely as possible, a "real-life" experience. I would recommend it highly.
This web site takes the approach, that we as adults have a responsibility to stop violence or aggression in the classroom and at home, for both the children who exhibit the aggressive behavior and those who become victims of this behavior. The term " bully" is defined as someone who is unable to initiate friendly interactions, or express their feelings in a positive way. If these people do not improve their social skills, they will have difficulties throughout their lives. Being a bully is only one half of the problem. People witnessing bullying in action, are more likely to accept or imitate this undesirable behavior. This site describes how to teach assertiveness skills to children, so that they will not become victims of bullying. A related article one can link to from this site, describes teaching your child responsible behavior, and positive discipline. Activities are outlined to assist in these tasks. Although this site and its links are easy to get around, I find them to be very basic. I didn't find them to contain much "meat." I wouldn't recommend them to others.
A perfect site geared to the teacher, to address everyday problems, in a way students will enjoy and learn from. I came upon it when looking specifically for information on bullies, only to discover it covers a huge range of topics. This site links with Cable in the Classroom, whose mission is to positively impact children. Teachers are encouraged to tape shows from the monthly calendar and use when appropriate. Examples of shows are, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, Ghostwriter, 3-2-1, Contact. Topics include bullies, grieving, asthma, the body trap (self-image based on looks), when divorce happens, etc.
http://www.teachermagazine.org/ew/vol-16/35bully
This site features an interesting article written by Debra Viadero. The amount of bullying is underestimated, due to the fact that adults do not take the children seriously. Often times, if the teachers do take the information seriously, they sometimes feel powerless to stop it. They feel their principals wouldn't support them. The principals feel they wouldn't receive the support they need from the superintendents and parents. Parents feel the school is doing nothing for their children. Bullies, often bullied themselves at home, are four times more likely to grow up to be criminals and the victims, are often on a path to a lifetime of unhappy school memories and depression.