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Classroom Tips. Behavior Management. Your experience:. Problem experienced before Your challenge and solution Your experience working with your teachers. Effective Behavior-Management Techniques.
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Classroom Tips Behavior Management
Your experience: • Problem experienced before • Your challenge and solution • Your experience working with your teachers
Effective Behavior-Management Techniques Many behavior problems can be prevented or corrected using effective behavior-management strategies. • Prevention strategies • Stopping the behavior before it gets started (The Bell Curve – An Early Intervention) • Intervention techniques • Stopping the behavior after it gets started
Preventing Problem Behavior • Creating a Structured Environment An organized environment can replace their feelings of insecurity, mistrust and discomfort, with predictability and stability. Predictable environment • Set rules and routines • Well-established schedules and arrangements Monitoring student Behavior • Checking children’s progress over time to adjust their interventions and improve their effectiveness. • Maintain writing records of specific events to assist in tracking behavior How was your classroom set up?
Intervening in Problem Behavior-Teaching Alternative Behaviors When individual children continue to act out in spite of prevention measures, it becomes necessary to use interventions to try to reshape their behavior. Reason for Social Skills Training • Never been taught how to behave • Difficulty developing friendships, meeting adult expectations and dealing with social problems appropriately • Teaching children social skills helps them develop good relationships with other children and adults
Social Skills Instruction Identify Decide which social skills are needed to replace problem behaviors. Example: “Asking permission to leave your seat, raising your hand; waiting for an answer; asking questions if you do not understand, etc.” Model Show the student how to perform the skill, i.e. watching other children use appropriate social skills.
Practice Allow the students to practice using the skill through role-play situations Reinforce Acceptable performance by letting students know how well they are performing the skills.
Behavior Issues: • A student threw a pencil to another student. • A student obsessed with the time, i.e. lunch, recess, etc. • A student pushes another student. • A student leaves the classroom.