Bullies: Turning Around Negative Behaviors

Bullying in school is usually a hidden problem. The teaching staff typically is unaware of how...

Bullying: What It Is & What Schools Can Do About It

Q: What is school bullying?

Bystanders: Turning Onlookers into Bully-Prevention Agents

Most students in a classroom or school do not bully others regularly and are...

Locations: Transforming Schools from Bully-Havens to Safe Havens

As classroom managers, teachers regularly use commands to direct...

Victims: Preventing Students From Becoming 'Bully-Targets'

Children who are chronically bullied are often deeply unhappy in school,...

Creating Safe Playgrounds: A Whole-School Approach

Almost all students love recess. But schools find that behavior and safety problems...

Critters!: Rewarding Positive Behaviors

This intervention rewards students for positive behaviors. It can be used with small groups or...

Effective Teacher Commands

As classroom managers, teachers regularly use commands to direct students to start and stop activities....

Establishing a Positive Classroom Climate: Teacher Advice

At a recent behavior-management workshop, teachers shared their best ideas for...

Good Behavior Game

The Good Behavior Game is an approach to the management of classrooms behaviors that rewards children for displaying...

Positive Peer Reports: Changing Negative Behaviors By Rewarding Student Compliments

Somestudents thrive on peer attention-and will do...

Preventing Graffiti and Vandalism: Enlisting the Power of Classrooms

Graffiti and vandalism can cost a school a great deal of money in...

Respectful Classroom

This intervention uses review of classroom behavioral expectations, daily prompts, and (optional) student...

School-Wide Strategies for Managing...
BUS CONDUCT

Traveling by school bus is one of the safest methods of transportation. In fact,...

Smooth Classroom Traffic

This classwide program can help to reduce noise levels and head off disruptive behaviors before they occur.

Strategies to Prepare Classrooms for Substitute Teachers

Substitute teachers have one of the toughest jobs in the world. They are often...

Encouraging Student Academic Motivation

One of the greatest frustrations mentioned by many teachers is that their students are often not...

Finding the Spark: More Tips for Building Student Motivation

Teachers can feel overwhelmed when faced with students who are unmotivated...

Creating Reward Menus That Motivate: Tips for Teachers

Jackpot! Ideas for Classroom Rewards

Read through this list for reward ideas that will motivate your students.

Trouble-Shooting Reward Programs: A Teacher's Guide

Q: My reward program worked for a while but now it...

Extending Learning Across Time & Space: The Power of Generalization

Teachers have every right to celebrate when they finally succeed...

Forced-Choice Reinforcer Assessment: Guidelines

The teacher of a child with severe or profound developmental disabilities may want to...

Teaching Children With Developmental Disabilities: Classroom Ideas

When working with children with developmental disabilities, teachers...

'Rubber-Band' Intervention

Teachers often find it difficult to monitor the frequency of problem student behaviors. In this clever...

Behavior Contracts

The behavior contract is a simple positive-reinforcement intervention that is widely used by teachers to change...

Breaking the Attention-Seeking Habit: The Power of Random Positive Teacher Attention

Some students misbehave because they are trying to...

Dodging the Power-Struggle Trap: Ideas for Teachers

Here is a scenario that commonly unfolds in many schools: A student behaves in a way...

Mystery Motivator

This reward system intrigues students because it carries a certain degree of unpredictability. The strategy can be used...

Points for Grumpy

This response-cost strategy is appropriate for younger students who are verbally defiant and non-compliant with the...

Response Effort

The amount of effort that a person must put forth to successfully complete a specific behavior has a direct impact on the...

Response-Cost Lottery

Designed to be time effective for teachers, this strategy can be used with individual students or small groups.

School-Wide Strategies for Managing...
DEFIANCE / NON-COMPLIANCE

Students who are defiant or non-compliant can be among the most...

School-Wide Strategies for Managing...
HYPERACTIVITY

Hyperactive students tend to have a very high energy level, act impulsively...

School-Wide Strategies for Managing...
OFF-TASK / INATTENTION

Students who have chronic difficulties paying attention in class face...

Strategies for Working With Emotionally Unpredictable Students

Talk Ticket

Teachers seldom have the time to drop everything and talk at length with a student who is upset about an incident that...

Teacher Behavioral Strategies: A Menu

Here is a sampling of strategies that teachers can use either to head off or to provide...

Time Out From Reinforcement

Time-out from reinforcement ("time-out") is a procedure in which a child is placed in a different,...

What Every Teacher Should Know About…Punishment Techniques and Student Behavior Plans

In everyday terms, people use the word...

Working With Defiant Kids: Communication Tools for Teachers

Teachers cite conflicts with defiant and noncompliant students as being a...