Full Description
This comprehensive guide offers simple and effective strategies for supporting and improving the classroom behavior of all your students, including those with intensive behavior support needs. Applicable across all K-12 contexts, with recommendations for whole classes as well as individual supports, each practical strategy builds on a foundation of research-supported behavioral approaches. The authors emphasize how each strategy can help build and maintain positive relationships between students and educators, which has been shown to be a key predictor of individual student success. With a myriad of helpful visuals, ready-to-use planning templates, and easy-to-try ideas, this book is key reading for all general or special education teachers, school support staff, and instructional coaches.
Contents
Introduction; 1. Behavioral Interventions and Student-Teacher; Relationships; Part I: Teaching Behavior; 2. Establishing Expectations; 3. Explicit Instruction; Part II: Encouraging Appropriate Behavior; 4. Positive Greetings at the Door; 5. Behavioral Momentum; 6. Instructional Choice; 7. Increasing Opportunities to Respond; 8. Precorrection; 9. Precision Requests; Part III: Maintaining Appropriate Behavior; 10. Behavior Specific Praise; 11. Token Economies; 12. Positive Group Contingencies; Part IV: Responding to Intensive Behavior Support Needs; 13. Differential Reinforcement; 14. Check-In Check-Out; 15. Behavior Contracts; 16. Informal Functional Behavioral Assessment; Closing Thoughts; 17. Closing Thoughts
