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Teacher Behavioral Strategies: A Menu
Teachers are always looking for additional ideas for managing challenging student behaviors. This menu contains strategies that teachers can use proactively to head off behaviors...
Establishing a Positive Classroom Climate: Teacher Advice
At a recent behavior-management workshop, teachers shared their best ideas for managing student behaviors in the classroom. Here are six tips that they offered: 1.) Set...
Talk Ticket
Teachers seldom have the time to drop everything and talk at length with a student who is upset about an incident that occurred within or...
Positive Peer Reports
Changing Negative Behaviors By Rewarding Student Compliments Some students thrive on peer attention and will do whatever they have to in order to get it....
Preventing Graffiti and Vandalism
Enlisting the Power of Classrooms Graffiti and vandalism can cost a school a great deal of money in repairs. They also may contribute to a...
What Every Teacher Should Know About Punishment Techniques and Student Behavior Plans
In everyday terms, people use the word punishment to describe negative consequences imposed on people when they misbehave. Often, the term has moral overtones, suggesting...
Strategies for Working With Emotionally Unpredictable Students
Introduction Emotionally unpredictable students can often be very difficult to work with as an educator. They can have many different issues impinging on their lives...
Working With Defiant Kids
Communication Tools for Teachers Teachers cite conflicts with defiant and noncompliant students as being a primary cause of classroom disruption. In many schools, staff believes...
Breaking the Attention-Seeking Habit
The Power of Random Positive Teacher AttentionSome students misbehave because they are trying to attract teacher attention. Surprisingly, many students who value adult attention don't...
Reducing Problem Behaviors Through Good Academic Management
10 Strategies 10 StrategiesStudents who are confrontational or non-compliant frequently have poor academic skills, a low sense of self-efficacy as learners, and a very negative...
Creating Safe Playgrounds: A Whole-School Approach
Almost all students love recess. But schools find that behavior and safety problems can often occur on the playground-for reasons that are easy to understand....
Strategies for Managing Defiance and Non-Compliance
Students who are defiant or non-compliant can be among the most challenging to teach. They can frequently interrupt instruction, often do poorly academically, and may...
Extending Learning Across Time & Space
Introduction Teachers have every right to celebrate when they finally succeed in teaching struggling students to use academic or behavioral strategies in their classrooms. Despite...
Forced-Choice Reinforcer Assessment: Guidelines
Introduction The teacher of a child with severe or profound developmental disabilities may want to motivate the student by rewarding his or her work performance...
Response Effort
Introduction The amount of effort that a person must put forth to successfully complete a specific behavior has a direct impact on the frequency that...
Smooth Classroom Traffic
Introduction Classroom noise and disruptive behaviors are a problem that all teachers face. Control of noise and behavior can be challenging, but without appropriate classroom...
Effective Teacher Commands
Introduction As classroom managers, teachers regularly use commands to direct students to start and stop activities. Instructors find commands to be a crucial tool for...
Respectful Classroom
National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) This Week’s Topic:Respectful Classroom This intervention uses review of classroom behavioral expectations, daily prompts, and (optional) student self-monitoring 'spot-checks'...
Establishing a Positive Classroom Climate
National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) This Week’s Topic:Establishing a Positive Classroom Climate: Teacher Advice At a recent behavior-management workshop, teachers shared their best ideas...
Dodging the Power-Struggle Trap
This Week's Topic: Dodging the Power Struggle Trap Ideas for Teachers Here is a scenario that commonly unfolds in many schools: A student behaves in...