15 positive behavior strategies to increase academic success /

This must-have guide delivers a set of fifteen essential behavioral intervention techniques, supported by research and case studies that can be applied in any classroom.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johns, Beverley H. (Beverley Holden) (Author)
Corporate Author: Sage Publications
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, a Sage company, [2015]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Strategy 1. Attributions : the power of attributing student success to efforts
  • Strategy 2. Behavior momentum : beginning with easy tasks that ensure success in more difficult tasks
  • Strategy 3. Behavior interspersal : interspersing easy tasks with difficult tasks
  • Strategy 4. Behavior-specific praise : letting students know exactly what they did when you reinforce them
  • Strategy 5. Supportive proximity control : building positive relationships by moving around the room
  • Strategy 6. Interest-based interventions : incorporating student interests in classroom activities
  • Strategy 7. Premack principle : the student first does the non-preferred behavior to do the preferred behavior -Grandma's law
  • Strategy 8. Choices : empowering students by giving them choices
  • Strategy 9. Response cards : collective checks for understanding
  • Strategy 10. Differential reinforcement of other behavior : reinforcing other appropriate behavior desired to eliminate inappropriate behavior
  • Strategy 11. Fading : providing maximum cues and slowly removing the cues to ensure errorless learning
  • Strategy 12. Function-based strategies : understanding the reason the student is misbehaving to plan an appropriate intervention
  • Strategy 13. Strength-based strategies : capitalizing on the strengths of your students
  • Strategy 14. Sensory-based strategies : understanding how stimulation impacts performance
  • Strategy 15. Student self-monitoring : teaching independence by having students monitor their own behavior.