The Discipline Coach
Autor Jim Robersonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2012
Jim Roberson, born and raised in the Bronx, was the first African American to play sports for Bronxville High School and his teammate was Roger Goodell, commissioner for the NFL. Jim graduated from the University of Rhode Island.
He now lives in the United Kingdom working with some of the most challenging children in school. Jim believes school should be the place where you learn how to succeed in life. Most importantly you have to learn discipline. That is to say "self discipline". For Jim, behavior is the "B-word" and is forbidden! Discipline, on the other hand, is neatly described not as something others do to you to get you to behave nor even as something you do to yourself, but rather as "what you do for yourself." Jim advocates a partnership between children and school. The school commits to teach children everything they need to succeed in and beyond school, no matter what career choices they make. In return, children commit to doing "what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, the way it needs to be done."
This unique book cleverly captures Jim's inspirational message in his own voice.
Jim Roberson has been working as a teacher, trainer and coach on the Discipline Approach for over twenty years.
He now lives in the United Kingdom working with some of the most challenging children in school. Jim believes school should be the place where you learn how to succeed in life. Most importantly you have to learn discipline. That is to say "self discipline". For Jim, behavior is the "B-word" and is forbidden! Discipline, on the other hand, is neatly described not as something others do to you to get you to behave nor even as something you do to yourself, but rather as "what you do for yourself." Jim advocates a partnership between children and school. The school commits to teach children everything they need to succeed in and beyond school, no matter what career choices they make. In return, children commit to doing "what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, the way it needs to be done."
This unique book cleverly captures Jim's inspirational message in his own voice.
Jim Roberson has been working as a teacher, trainer and coach on the Discipline Approach for over twenty years.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781781350058
ISBN-10: 1781350051
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 221 x 183 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: INDEPENDENT THINKING
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1781350051
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 221 x 183 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: INDEPENDENT THINKING
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
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Cuprins
Foreword
Discipline
Thinking it Through
Self-Discipline
Crossover
Discipline Action Plan
The Theatre of Dreams
It Takes Energy to Commit
The Art – To Make Others Feel Good
Start with an Ethos
It’s a State of Mind Thing
Driving Change
Exploiting Opportunity
The Discipline Coach
Image Credits
Recenzii
The Discipline Coach received a honourable mentions in:
The 2013 San Francisco Book Festival Awards – Biography/Autobiography category
The 2013 New England Book Festival Awards - Biography/Autobiography category.
The Discipline Coach is a punchy book about redefining discipline as we know it. Jim Roberson - a former American football player who grew up in a housing tenement in the Bronx - believes that school should be the place where you learn all you need to succeed in life, whatever form that success may take. Through quotes, anecdotes and a unique style of writing, Jim Roberson explains that discipline is 'not what you do to yourself or what anyone does to you. It's what you do for yourself.'
What Jim advocates is a partnership between children and schools, whereby schools open up to teaching children everything they will need to prosper at and beyond school, no matter what career or life choices they make. In return, children will start to acquire and then implement the strategies and benefits that come with self-discipline on an ongoing basis. He goes on to provide positive alternatives and clear guidance as to how to put self-discipline into practice in the classroom and in life. Jim writes from experience; he has worked with some of the most challenging young people in the UK and, whether he's working with experienced classroom practitioners, struggling supply teachers, students themselves or even the police, he delivers powerful, practical, common-sense strategies that bring the best out of some of the most demanding and hard-to-reach young people. The book is quirky and holds nothing back but is easy to read, with interesting content that can be used in everyday school life.
Adam Pennington, Learning & Teaching Update February 2013
Jim provides a sensible and non-traditional approach to helping young people understand what they need to know for achieving in life. As a High School educator, dean and head coach of varsity football , Jim’s method of managing discipline has given me a new approach for reaching my student athletes to achieve team and individual goals on and off the field.
Calvin Whitfield, Head Coach Varsity Football, Jamaica High School, Queens, NY
James Roberson makes a compelling argument for a new and refreshing view on discipline. He combines the logic of Hall of Fame coaching with his own experience of coaching and working with “at-risk youth” to derive a formula for positive change.
If you are a teacher and want to see a difference in your learners, read this book. Coach Roberson writes with laser-like accuracy, getting straight to the point of what it takes to inspire young people to reach their potential.
There are pearls of wisdom in this book for teachers, coaches and even parents, all presented in an easy to read -understand and truly enjoyable book. Once I started reading it I couldn’t put it down until I was done.
Like my best professors at Harvard Business School, the wisdom of James Roberson has inspired me to take a closer look at myself, as a first step to becoming a more effective leader. This book is as valuable for the teacher, coach or parent reading it, as it is for the young people they are attempting to lead. Without a doubt, leadership, teaching, coaching and parenting go hand in hand.
Charles M Henderson , Current Managing Director at Henderson, Harper & Associates, ELeadership Training & Executive Coaching
A speaking gig' in book form - educators will appreciate being able to get the heart of the message without having to wade through pages of dense, closely referenced text!
Helen Mulley, Editor Teach Secondary Magazine
Jim has worked with me for nearly 20 years dealing with challenging young people and in the pages of 'The Discipline Coach' Jim has distilled the very essence of his beliefs and his enthusiasm for making the difference. There is no task too difficult for Jim to challenge. On the first occasion he may meet with rejection but that does not blunt Jim's approach. I have had plaudits from both young people and parents as to the difference Jim has made to their perception of themselves and what they can strive to achieve in their futures. This book has Jim's inspirational qualities on nearly every page. He appreciates the chances he got as a young man in New York and is now providing those life changing opportunities here in the UK.'
Jeffery Ballard Youth Justice Worker
Many authors have produced a range of texts revolving around keeping discipline in classrooms, school behaviour management, seating plans, restraint, etc, ..... often with limited positive impact on improving engagement and learning. This outstanding book by Jim Robertson gives teachers, mentors, youth workers and all adults working or living with young people the skills and techniques to promote self-discipline, self-coaching, and positive self expectation to expect nothing but the best from themselves. In common with many outstanding teachers that I have worked with, Jim Robertson has employed skills from the psychology of motivation to enable young people, who are often on a self-destruct route, to re-consider the choices that they make and to start making a positive contribution to their own lives. This book will enable more teachers and staff team members to gain the personal skills that make the difference to the lives of others A brilliant book.
John T Morris BA(Hons),MEd,MPhil,CertEd, Director JTM Educational Consultants
The Discipline Coach is a well presented text, perhaps most especially suited to practitioners in secondary phase, dealing with disaffected boys, but it has potential resonance for all. Roberson clearly has an impressive track record, and is one who has walked the talk that he talks in this volume. This is a book of few words – quotations, axioms and aphorisms predominate, paired with powerful images (and isn’t a picture work a thousand words?) – but the message is an important one that stresses the importance of self-discipline, self-esteem, and self-control. The discipline in this approach is internally rather externally imposed – it’s not that kind of discipline – and embraces Dweck’s concept of mind set and the brain’s plasticity. The message is positive, and one imagines that Roberson must deliver a persuasive and empowering presentation; one criticism if anything, is that the book sometimes reads like slides from a presentation, which have been turned into a book, but the book is a helpful if light read.
Dr Jonathan Rodgers, Brunswick House Primary School
The Discipline Coach gives a good illustration of the importance of coaching in the lives of adolescents. Jim relates the Discipline Coach to his life and how his coaches were able to help him to think and prepare for the future. The book should be used by Social Workers, Counselors, Teachers and others that are concerned about changing the negative attitudes of adolescents and give them a positive way of thinking for the future. It gives good illustration of the steps that can be used to help adolescents change their way of thinking and learn to respect themselves and others.
Lula Linder, MSW LSW Founder and Executive Director Ad House Inc
Jim Roberson is clearly a larger than life character who makes a huge and inspiring impression on all he meets …. How do I know this? From reading this book! It too is inspiring and makes a huge impression.
I loved the bold black and white images that support the short and snappy statements - together the images and words make such a dramatic impact and certainly helped this aged and forgetful teacher remember the key messages with ease. As a lead within the now defunct Playing for Success Programme across the UK (a study support initiative working in partnership with schools and prestigious sports clubs) I have long recognised the power that sporting metaphors can have on transforming the aspirations of vulnerable pupils. Within this book those metaphors are skilfully transferred into mainstream / everyday situations.
Not only is the guidance offered to support those developing an ethos of self-discipline and engagement for young people bold and memorable, but it is also grounded in common sense and simple progressive steps. I would have no hesitation in recommending this as a key resource in any staff library.
Mandy Brougham., Ex Playing for Success Project manager and Consultant, currently Associate Deputy Principal at Trinity Catholic School, Leamington Spa.
This is an inspiring book which every teacher and parent working or living with young people should read. Inspiring is an over-worked word, but well deserved here. The production is also vibrant and appealing.
Mary Mountstephen MA (SEN) AMBDA, Director of The Learning Development Centre, Millfield Preparatory School, Glastonbury
If you teach in an inner city, if you have disaffective, disruptive teenagers in your class, if nothing in the past has helped you gain control, this book will shine a light into a dark area of school life. The Discipline Coach, by Jim Roberson, a tough-talking former American footballer, football coach and now a teacher, is something different.
Where Roberson grew up in the tough Bronx neighbourhood of New York, he learned that self-discipline, respect for others, taking responsibility, then planning for success were the keys to a better life. And these are the attributes that he says can revitalise problem students. But, as he points out, discipline works, not if it’s something we do to students, but only as something we can teach them to do to themselves.
He advocates talking to kids about consequences (short term) and repercussions (long term), about inviting them to respect you the teacher, about whether friends are enablers or disablers, about admitting that they need to change. Don’t expect this book to be the usual text-heavy SEN publication. Read it through or dip into it – either way it won’t take long. But it will make you think.
Maureen Moody Special Magazine January 2013
‘Straight forward and straight talking.
Nick Bloy Deputy Manager Wessex Youth Justice Centre
Having known Jim as a friend and professionally for 15 years I can hear his voice come through the text. He is an inspiration to all that he comes into contact with. I have witnessed him apply many of the concepts he writes about and seen the impact these words have on young people. The boost to their self-worth and self-esteem. The importance of self-discipline, considering all factors, taking care of business and considering the repercussions of our actions are important concepts for all and something I try to instil in my own children at home and in my classroom. Jim really is a legend.
Nicola Murphy, Primary School Teacher
Jim Roberson's book 'The Discipline Coach', is a most refreshing and inspiring read. It is aimed at teachers yet the layout and clear messages it sends will resonate with young people in any school or college. Jim's philosophy chimes with my practice as the Teenager Coach - it is about looking to the future with a belief in possibility and change. The overriding premise is that young people have the power to determine their future with teachers being the engineers and architects of learning and purpose. The pupils gain self-confidence, motivation and direction. My guess is that schools who take this approach will be high achieving, full of endeavour and aliveness!
Susan Moss M.Ed
The 2013 San Francisco Book Festival Awards – Biography/Autobiography category
The 2013 New England Book Festival Awards - Biography/Autobiography category.
The Discipline Coach is a punchy book about redefining discipline as we know it. Jim Roberson - a former American football player who grew up in a housing tenement in the Bronx - believes that school should be the place where you learn all you need to succeed in life, whatever form that success may take. Through quotes, anecdotes and a unique style of writing, Jim Roberson explains that discipline is 'not what you do to yourself or what anyone does to you. It's what you do for yourself.'
What Jim advocates is a partnership between children and schools, whereby schools open up to teaching children everything they will need to prosper at and beyond school, no matter what career or life choices they make. In return, children will start to acquire and then implement the strategies and benefits that come with self-discipline on an ongoing basis. He goes on to provide positive alternatives and clear guidance as to how to put self-discipline into practice in the classroom and in life. Jim writes from experience; he has worked with some of the most challenging young people in the UK and, whether he's working with experienced classroom practitioners, struggling supply teachers, students themselves or even the police, he delivers powerful, practical, common-sense strategies that bring the best out of some of the most demanding and hard-to-reach young people. The book is quirky and holds nothing back but is easy to read, with interesting content that can be used in everyday school life.
Adam Pennington, Learning & Teaching Update February 2013
Jim provides a sensible and non-traditional approach to helping young people understand what they need to know for achieving in life. As a High School educator, dean and head coach of varsity football , Jim’s method of managing discipline has given me a new approach for reaching my student athletes to achieve team and individual goals on and off the field.
Calvin Whitfield, Head Coach Varsity Football, Jamaica High School, Queens, NY
James Roberson makes a compelling argument for a new and refreshing view on discipline. He combines the logic of Hall of Fame coaching with his own experience of coaching and working with “at-risk youth” to derive a formula for positive change.
If you are a teacher and want to see a difference in your learners, read this book. Coach Roberson writes with laser-like accuracy, getting straight to the point of what it takes to inspire young people to reach their potential.
There are pearls of wisdom in this book for teachers, coaches and even parents, all presented in an easy to read -understand and truly enjoyable book. Once I started reading it I couldn’t put it down until I was done.
Like my best professors at Harvard Business School, the wisdom of James Roberson has inspired me to take a closer look at myself, as a first step to becoming a more effective leader. This book is as valuable for the teacher, coach or parent reading it, as it is for the young people they are attempting to lead. Without a doubt, leadership, teaching, coaching and parenting go hand in hand.
Charles M Henderson , Current Managing Director at Henderson, Harper & Associates, ELeadership Training & Executive Coaching
A speaking gig' in book form - educators will appreciate being able to get the heart of the message without having to wade through pages of dense, closely referenced text!
Helen Mulley, Editor Teach Secondary Magazine
Jim has worked with me for nearly 20 years dealing with challenging young people and in the pages of 'The Discipline Coach' Jim has distilled the very essence of his beliefs and his enthusiasm for making the difference. There is no task too difficult for Jim to challenge. On the first occasion he may meet with rejection but that does not blunt Jim's approach. I have had plaudits from both young people and parents as to the difference Jim has made to their perception of themselves and what they can strive to achieve in their futures. This book has Jim's inspirational qualities on nearly every page. He appreciates the chances he got as a young man in New York and is now providing those life changing opportunities here in the UK.'
Jeffery Ballard Youth Justice Worker
Many authors have produced a range of texts revolving around keeping discipline in classrooms, school behaviour management, seating plans, restraint, etc, ..... often with limited positive impact on improving engagement and learning. This outstanding book by Jim Robertson gives teachers, mentors, youth workers and all adults working or living with young people the skills and techniques to promote self-discipline, self-coaching, and positive self expectation to expect nothing but the best from themselves. In common with many outstanding teachers that I have worked with, Jim Robertson has employed skills from the psychology of motivation to enable young people, who are often on a self-destruct route, to re-consider the choices that they make and to start making a positive contribution to their own lives. This book will enable more teachers and staff team members to gain the personal skills that make the difference to the lives of others A brilliant book.
John T Morris BA(Hons),MEd,MPhil,CertEd, Director JTM Educational Consultants
The Discipline Coach is a well presented text, perhaps most especially suited to practitioners in secondary phase, dealing with disaffected boys, but it has potential resonance for all. Roberson clearly has an impressive track record, and is one who has walked the talk that he talks in this volume. This is a book of few words – quotations, axioms and aphorisms predominate, paired with powerful images (and isn’t a picture work a thousand words?) – but the message is an important one that stresses the importance of self-discipline, self-esteem, and self-control. The discipline in this approach is internally rather externally imposed – it’s not that kind of discipline – and embraces Dweck’s concept of mind set and the brain’s plasticity. The message is positive, and one imagines that Roberson must deliver a persuasive and empowering presentation; one criticism if anything, is that the book sometimes reads like slides from a presentation, which have been turned into a book, but the book is a helpful if light read.
Dr Jonathan Rodgers, Brunswick House Primary School
The Discipline Coach gives a good illustration of the importance of coaching in the lives of adolescents. Jim relates the Discipline Coach to his life and how his coaches were able to help him to think and prepare for the future. The book should be used by Social Workers, Counselors, Teachers and others that are concerned about changing the negative attitudes of adolescents and give them a positive way of thinking for the future. It gives good illustration of the steps that can be used to help adolescents change their way of thinking and learn to respect themselves and others.
Lula Linder, MSW LSW Founder and Executive Director Ad House Inc
Jim Roberson is clearly a larger than life character who makes a huge and inspiring impression on all he meets …. How do I know this? From reading this book! It too is inspiring and makes a huge impression.
I loved the bold black and white images that support the short and snappy statements - together the images and words make such a dramatic impact and certainly helped this aged and forgetful teacher remember the key messages with ease. As a lead within the now defunct Playing for Success Programme across the UK (a study support initiative working in partnership with schools and prestigious sports clubs) I have long recognised the power that sporting metaphors can have on transforming the aspirations of vulnerable pupils. Within this book those metaphors are skilfully transferred into mainstream / everyday situations.
Not only is the guidance offered to support those developing an ethos of self-discipline and engagement for young people bold and memorable, but it is also grounded in common sense and simple progressive steps. I would have no hesitation in recommending this as a key resource in any staff library.
Mandy Brougham., Ex Playing for Success Project manager and Consultant, currently Associate Deputy Principal at Trinity Catholic School, Leamington Spa.
This is an inspiring book which every teacher and parent working or living with young people should read. Inspiring is an over-worked word, but well deserved here. The production is also vibrant and appealing.
Mary Mountstephen MA (SEN) AMBDA, Director of The Learning Development Centre, Millfield Preparatory School, Glastonbury
If you teach in an inner city, if you have disaffective, disruptive teenagers in your class, if nothing in the past has helped you gain control, this book will shine a light into a dark area of school life. The Discipline Coach, by Jim Roberson, a tough-talking former American footballer, football coach and now a teacher, is something different.
Where Roberson grew up in the tough Bronx neighbourhood of New York, he learned that self-discipline, respect for others, taking responsibility, then planning for success were the keys to a better life. And these are the attributes that he says can revitalise problem students. But, as he points out, discipline works, not if it’s something we do to students, but only as something we can teach them to do to themselves.
He advocates talking to kids about consequences (short term) and repercussions (long term), about inviting them to respect you the teacher, about whether friends are enablers or disablers, about admitting that they need to change. Don’t expect this book to be the usual text-heavy SEN publication. Read it through or dip into it – either way it won’t take long. But it will make you think.
Maureen Moody Special Magazine January 2013
‘Straight forward and straight talking.
Nick Bloy Deputy Manager Wessex Youth Justice Centre
Having known Jim as a friend and professionally for 15 years I can hear his voice come through the text. He is an inspiration to all that he comes into contact with. I have witnessed him apply many of the concepts he writes about and seen the impact these words have on young people. The boost to their self-worth and self-esteem. The importance of self-discipline, considering all factors, taking care of business and considering the repercussions of our actions are important concepts for all and something I try to instil in my own children at home and in my classroom. Jim really is a legend.
Nicola Murphy, Primary School Teacher
Jim Roberson's book 'The Discipline Coach', is a most refreshing and inspiring read. It is aimed at teachers yet the layout and clear messages it sends will resonate with young people in any school or college. Jim's philosophy chimes with my practice as the Teenager Coach - it is about looking to the future with a belief in possibility and change. The overriding premise is that young people have the power to determine their future with teachers being the engineers and architects of learning and purpose. The pupils gain self-confidence, motivation and direction. My guess is that schools who take this approach will be high achieving, full of endeavour and aliveness!
Susan Moss M.Ed
Notă biografică
Jim Roberson was the first Africa American to play sport for Bronxville High School. He was a high school football coach for Tuckahoe NY and is former American football player. He has been working on the Disciplined Approach for over 20 years as a teacher, trainer, coach and parent. He is a speaker and Associate of Independent Thinking.
www.independentthinking.com/Who/Associates/Jim+Roberson/default.aspx
Ian Gilbert is one of the UK's leading educational innovators, speakers and writers with twenty years experience working with young people and educationalists around the world. He is the founder of Independent Thinking Ltd, the editor of the Independent Thinking Press and the author of a number of titles including Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've Got Google?. His book The Little Book of Thunks won the first education book award from the Society of Authors for 'an outstanding example of traditionally published non-fiction that enhances teaching and learning'.
www.independentthinking.com
www.independentthinking.com/Who/Associates/Jim+Roberson/default.aspx
Ian Gilbert is one of the UK's leading educational innovators, speakers and writers with twenty years experience working with young people and educationalists around the world. He is the founder of Independent Thinking Ltd, the editor of the Independent Thinking Press and the author of a number of titles including Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've Got Google?. His book The Little Book of Thunks won the first education book award from the Society of Authors for 'an outstanding example of traditionally published non-fiction that enhances teaching and learning'.
www.independentthinking.com
Extras
Foreword written by Ian Gilbert from The Discipline Coach by Jim Roberson:
How often do you start sentences – or hear others start sentences – with the
words ‘Not my …’? Sentences like, not my fault, not my problem, not my
responsibility, not my job …?
And how often do you look around and wish things were different?
I realised way back in my first ever ‘proper’ job that there were two sorts
of people in the world of work. There were DDMs and DMDs. DDMS were
the Don’t Do: Moans. They didn’t like what was going on but they never did
anything about it. Apart from moaning. In my third ever ‘proper’ job I soon
discovered that this is what staffrooms were for.
DMDs didn’t like it either but, rather than sitting around berating the world and all who lived in it for not being good enough, they found ways of getting on
and making it better. Making it different. Making a difference. These were life’s Don’t Moan: Dos. These are very special people and should be cherished.
Making a difference, however, is hard work. It means nipping all those ‘Not
my …’ sentences in the bud. It’s not about what isn’t my fault, problem,
responsibility or job, but all about doing everything I need to in order to bring
the world kicking and screaming in line with all that it can be. It means not
sitting around making myself feel good because I am surrounded by others
who have the same complaints, mitherings, whinges and excuses I have. It
means applying myself to making myself better each day in order to make
things better each day.
And that takes discipline.
Jim Roberson has discipline. He is an enigma. He is a force of nature. He
is, in the words of so many of the young people whose lives he has helped
transform, a ‘f@*#%ing legend’! And he is very much the sort of person who,
as his fellow Americans like to say, ‘walks the talk’.
I have known Jim for many years now, ever since we first met when I was
doing an INSET session at the school where he was based, a school in one
of the rougher parts of Portsmouth on England’s south coast. At this school,
Jim was ‘The Discipline Coach’. Not in a ‘Do your work or we’ll send for Mr
Roberson and he’ll sort you out!’ sort of way. Quite the opposite. Discipline
isn’t something, in Jim’s world, we do to others. Disciplining someone just
teaches them that they didn’t work hard enough at not getting caught. That it’s
OK to be naughty until someone stops you and if no one stops you then just
carry on. That the reason you haven’t got that nice pair of trainers is because
life is crap. And the reason for that is everyone else.
Jim’s approach, rather, is not about what we do to others but what we do for
ourselves. Over the years, I have seen Jim transform the lives of many, many
young people, whether it’s helping them focus on doing better in their studies,
staying on the straight and narrow at school, playing that sport that much better, getting out of crime, contributing more as a member of the family, as a member of a community, getting a job, aiming higher, going further. He has helped turn around the lives of so many people and at the core of this is his philosophy of discipline. It is this philosophy that we have tried to distil into this book. And do it in a way that captures Jim’s spirit, his voice and his relentless energy. To do this we have had to create a very special sort of book. Different from all the other ‘books for teachers’ that fill the shelves, often unread. It’s not a ‘How to’ book or a ‘Top Ten Tips’ guide for busy teachers. It’s actually a philosophy book with an autobiography wrapped up inside it for good measure.
What we want is for you to read it and enjoy it. And that in doing so, it will give you the reassurance to be even better at what you do. That it will offer you new insights to bring to bear on the young people whose lives you can touch. That it will help you see how much more we can all do for those young people. And that the biggest thing we can do for them is to remind them how much they can do for themselves. If they have the discipline to do so.
Ian Gilbert, Craig-Cefn-Parc, July 2012
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“Jim is an inspiration to all that he comes into contact with. I have witnessed him apply many of the concepts he writes about and seen the impact these words have on young people … Jim really is a legend.”
Nicola Murphy, Primary School Teacher
It’s not what you do to young people, but what they do for themselves!
With all the talk these days about discipline and young people, this game-changing book from Jim Roberson comes at things from a totally different angle. Discipline for Jim is not something you do to others or even something you do to yourself. It is something you do for yourself. His practical yet powerful philosophy is drawn from many years working with young people in the UK both in and out of school, as well as from his own powerful story: growing up in New York, becoming a successful American football player and getting himself a college education against the odds. The Discipline Coach is a book that is as powerful as it is inspiring. It will transform the way you approach even the most challenging of young people to help them succeed.
“The book should be used by social workers, counselors, teachers and others that are concerned about changing the negative attitudes of adolescents and giving them a positive way of thinking for the future.”
Lula Linder, MSW, LSW, Founder and Executive Director, Ad House Inc
“Jim provides a sensible and non-traditional approach to helping young people understand what they need to know for achieving in life … Jim’s method of managing discipline has given me a new approach to reaching my student athletes, to achieve team and individual goals on and off the field.”
Calvin Whitfield, Head Coach Varsity Football, Jamaica High School, Queens, NY
“If you are a teacher and want to see a difference in your learners, read this book. Coach Roberson writes with laser-like accuracy, getting straight to the point of what it takes to inspire young people to reach their potential. … There are pearls of wisdom in this book for teachers, coaches and even parents, all presented in an easy to read, easy to understand and truly enjoyable book.”
Charles M. Henderson, MD, Henderson, Harper & Associates, ELeadership Training & Executive Coaching
“I have had plaudits from both young people and parents as to the difference Jim has made to their perception of themselves and what they can strive to achieve in their futures.”
Jeff Ballard, Youth Justice Worker
Jim Roberson is an independent education consultant and works with parents, teachers and students.
Descriere
Turning the traditional approach to classroom behavior management on its head.