Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids - (and the rest of your class

I started using the Whole Brain Teaching method last year in my class and I am delighted that it is all online for free! It is nice to have a book as a quick reference though. I guess I am still from the old school and like to have my text book at hand. ;) I am excited to continue using the Whole Brain teaching methods more extensively this year and since I am half way through the book I can tell it will be a great resource!

Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Students has made profound changes in my approach to classroom management. The strategies are respectful toward students, and they help reduce teacher frustration with behavioral issues. Best of all, most students like the strategies. Many of the practices are easy to implement immediately. Add a new strategy every week or two and watch as student engagement improves. Start with Class-Yes, Five Classroom Rules, Teach-Okay, and The Scoreboard and off you go. Add Mirrors, Hands and Eyes the next week. The chapter on procedures is gold, as you will learn to save transition time in seemingly simple acts like passing out and collecting papers. Follow up with the Super Achievers Club, and you'll never again need to give away treats or treasure chest prizes as rewards for positive behavior.

Amazing! I am using this technique in my troubled kindergarten class with many English language learners and 100% FRL. It is working wonderfully. It creates a positive, non-competitive atmosphere that supports student learning. Love it!

This book changed our classroom dynamic completely. I highly recommend it to any teacher - new or veteran. We're having fun and so are the kids. They are engaged, focused and retaining more than ever before. Thank you WBT!

Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Students has made profound changes in my approach to classroom management. The strategies are respectful toward students, and they help reduce teacher frustration with behavioral issues. Best of all, most students like the strategies. Many of the practices are easy to implement immediately. Add a new strategy every week or two and watch as student engagement improves. Start with Class-Yes, Five Classroom Rules, Teach-Okay, and The Scoreboard and off you go. Add Mirrors, Hands and Eyes the next week. The chapter on procedures is gold, as you will learn to save transition time in seemingly simple acts like passing out and collecting papers. Follow up with the Super Achievers Club, and you'll never again need to give away treats or treasure chest prizes as rewards for positive behavior.

Amazing! I am using this technique in my troubled kindergarten class with many English language learners and 100% FRL. It is working wonderfully. It creates a positive, non-competitive atmosphere that supports student learning. Love it!

I have been using Chris Biffle's Whole Brain classroom management techniques for several years! I can tell you that they work and it is AMAZING! This book is everything whole brain teaching in one book! Classroom management, as well as the five step lesson, is explained clearly and simply! Buy this book if you want your students to listen, learn, and most importantly, have FUN while doing it!!! I have recently begun using the lesson plan in my Kindergarten class and the results are astonishing! I am thrilled when my kindergarteners are learning and having some fun with it! I even get at least one ten-finger woo a day from them--makes me smile! Every k-12 teacher needs this book! You will be hooked on these techniques from your first Class? Yes!!!!

WBT for Challenging Kids is a game changer for teachers at any grade in any subject! A must read for all teachers. Excellent professional development/book study. You are missing out if you haven't jumped on the WBT bandwagon.

Whole Brain Teaching is one of those ground-level books that cut through a lot of 'pop' education principles and presents a classroom education and management environment process that resonates with the students. There is no mention of forcing young students into an adult learning mold nor the 'Jedi Mind Tricks' that has become popular in some teaching colleges. Instead, teachers (and parents too) can learn how to manage groups of students and children in a way that builds community, responsibility and success. This book will be my blueprint and guide for my classes in the future.

This book is an easy read that gives practical suggestions for a new approach to teaching. It teaches the use of gestures as well as lots of repetition in order to make learning fun! I highly recommend it!

I would highly recommend this book to all educators at any level. It will revolutionize your teaching. The techniques are easy to implement, but they will transform your classroom in ways that you could only dream of.

This book is very easy to follow and very informative about the concept of Whole Brain Teaching. I have learnt a lot of interesting and useful methodologies from this book, which I will try to use in class, even though I most probably will not be switching completely to WBT (at least not yet).

Chris Biffle is an amazing and creative teacher. Teachers provide You Tube videos online in which you can view children and teachers using his techniques in classroom management. You might want to watch them just to smile, because it is so cute to see a little first grader presenting to her class or to see a sixth grader working with other students and mirroring the instruction. The class videos are on You Tube and his instructional sessions are in his webcast. I teach high school kids. I saw some of these techniques on his webcast and in the You Tube videos and I have begun using some of them with my eleventh grade students during summer school. I am very pleased with the results so far and I intend to use these techniques with my ninth, tenth honors, and eleventh grade students this Fall. I have been teaching for sixteen years and I have never seen a set of techniques that created an environment in which students are so engaged with what they are learning. I don't talk as much now and the kids are actively learning instead of sitting and staring at me. I still have a long way to go in learning this, but I already feel like I am a more effective teacher and I see that my classroom is more fun and interesting to the students. I am still reading the book, so I haven't completed it yet, but it is supported with many free and very helpful examples and instruction online.

I teach a high school special education behavior unit. There is no tougher audience. WBT changed the way I think and lit up my classroom. I've even shared it with my co-teachers!!!! Love. Love. Love!!

Excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about whole brain teaching or just wanting a new light on classroom management! It's a very easy read. Every question I had while reading was answered further in the reading.

This book simply rocks! Do you need ideas to help making your teaching more engaging? Engagement stops behavior problems in its tracks. This great book covers a super attention getter called Class Yes, which combines with the scoreboard (points the class earns for making good choices and poor choices or simply not quick enough) to help keep children on task. The book also includes Hands and Eyes a great way to focus students, 5 terrific classroom rules, Teach-Okay and Mirror both of which have children using gestures to teach each other concepts, the Super Improvers Wall to help focus children in on wanting to improve instead of just rewarding your brightest students, and practice cards for your toughest students to keep them on the right track.

The book also covers the brain research behind Whole Brain Teaching, Critical Thinking, The Five Step Lesson Plan, Writing ideas, and many other wonder teaching tips that will engage even your toughest students. I wish I had known about this amazing program when I taught some of the toughest students as I know this would have helped them greatly.

Pick up the book and also do yourself a favor and hop on over to Whole Brain Teaching .com (no spaces) and check out the videos, free ebooks and more fun on the website!

Brian Hopkins

If you've ever had a life-changing experience, then you know what I'm talking about. I read this book and had the privilege to to to Chris Biffle's Whole Brain Teaching conference a few years back and it's changed how I teach and I'll never go back. In this book not only will you find the ways to deal with challenging students but you will start teaching them in a way that they will be enjoying what you are teaching them! Really! The kid that is the one that seems to control the "temperature" of your class will be no more. You will be in control and you will be in Teaching Heaven the remainder of your teaching days! Don't wait, get this book now to start the Funtricity in your classroom!