Supporting Positive Behavior in the Classroom:
Resources
Resources:
Primary Prevention
Intervention Central
http://www.interventioncentral.org
Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to
promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and
youth. Jim Wright, a school psychologist from Central New York, created the site. Visit
to check out newly posted academic and behavioral intervention strategies, download
publications on effective teaching practices, and use tools that streamline classroom
assessment and intervention.
Go to: Interventions
Classroom Management Ideas (6)

Effective Teacher Commands: Establishing Classroom Control

Good Behavior Game

Positive Classroom Climate: Teacher Advice

Respectful Classroom

Smooth Classroom Traffic

Strategies to Prepare Classrooms for Substitute Teachers
Making Rewards Work (3)

Creating Reward Menus: Teacher Tips

Jackpot!: Ideas for Classroom Rewards

Troubleshooting Reward Program
Dr. Mac’s Amazing Behavior Management Site
http://www.BehaviorAdvisor.com
This site offers THOUSANDS of tips on managing student behavior,
and provides step-by-step directions for implementing a great number of standard
interventions. It also contains a bulletin board on which you can post your disciplinary
concerns and receive suggestions from teachers around the world.
Go to The Basics of Behavior Management
Discipline 101: A PRIMER on behavior management
A page for NEW TEACHERS (and novices and struggling teachers too)
A CHECKLIST (to assess your behavior management skills)
Go To Tips for Becoming an Effective and Well-liked Behavior Manager
NICE Interventions that build self discipline in kids
Gaining RESPECT by giving it
Different ways to "CATCH 'EM BEING GOOD"
PROBLEMS with "catching them being good" (AND how to do it right)
Managing behavior with your INSTRUCTIONAL STYLE
Managing the behavior of GROUPS
Promoting POSITIVE PEER PRESSURE (Students help to manage the behavior of their
classmates)
Remembering to FOCUS ON YOUR GOAL (when kids get you flustered)
SCENARIOS for thought and discussion
Go to Step-by-Step “How To Do It” Pages For:
Assertive Discipline
Cooperative Learning (Allowing students to learn in structured teams)
Creating your own Behavior Management System
Good-Natured Humor (Using wit to manage behavior)
Inclusion/Mainstreaming (of students with behavior disorders)
The IRS Plan (A home/school cooperative behavior management plan)
Ten-Step Approach (A sequentially implemented approach)
Ten R Plan (A 10 step plan for dealing with non-compliant or violent behavior)
Weaning kids from rewards and developing internal motivation
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) A Union of Professionals
http://www.aft.org/teachers/jft/management.htm
Go to “Teachers”
You will find effective classroom management strategies including keys to classroom
arrangement, establishing effective rules and procedures, and tips on defining
consequences for behavior.
Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org/bk/focus/1096.htm
Go to: Behavior Management
Articles include information on behavior management for students with behavior
disorders, individual students, and schools as well as research, and current issues
concerning behavior management as well as CEC policies and resources.
Resources:
Secondary Prevention
What are social skills? Social skills are those behaviors that we use to interact
with other people. Examples of these behaviors include taking turns, communicating
clearly, and helping others. Social skills, often referred to as people skills, are the things
we do which help us to be physically and socially integrated into the mainstream of
society (Wolfensberger, W., 1972).
Why is it important to teach social skills? Students who may be considered for
secondary prevention strategies, the “at-risk” group of students, are likely to be in need of
and benefit from social skills training. In fact, some researchers have estimated that
about 75% of students with learning disabilities exhibit deficits in social skills (Kavale,
K.A., & Fornes, S.R., 1996). Poor social skills in school may result in negative
interactions with teachers, other students, and effect academic learning and performance.
Teaching appropriate social skills and monitoring the social consequences (how others
respond to the behavior) of problem behavior, can be a very powerful way to create a
more positive learning environment (Thompson, R.H. & Iwata, B.A., 2001).
How teachers can teach social skills. Social skills are learned most effectively by
observing others modeling the behavior, by observing others one can form an idea of how
new behaviors are performed, and this behavior serves as a guide for their own behavior
(Bandura, A., 1977). Key to most instructional approaches for social skills are strategies
that include direct instruction, modeling, opportunities for performance with feedback,
and reinforcement of skill use in different settings (Chandler, S.K., & Pankaskie, S.C.,
1997). The following websites provide training modules for teaching social skills, as well
as PowerPoint slides to use in pre-service teacher coursework.
Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org/bk/focus/1096.htm
Go to: Exceptionality/Topic Areas
Articles related to managing behavior and social integration of students with Autism
include:

Comic Strip Conversations: A Positive Behavioral Support Strategy

Encouraging Positive Behavior with Social Stories: An Intervention for
Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Everyone’s Included: Supporting Young Children With Autism Spectrum
Disorders in a Responsive Classroom Learning Environment

Strategies for Increasing Positive Social Interactions in Children With Autism:
A Case Study

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Applying Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques to Social Skills Instruction

Arranging the Classroom with an Eye (and Ear) to Students with ADHD

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children With Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Articles related to classroom management and social integration are included for all
disability categories.
Intervention Central
http://www.interventioncentral.org
Go to: Interventions
Classroom Strategies for Managing (4)

Bus Conduct

Defiance/Non-Compliance

Hyperactivity

Off-task/Inattention
Behavioral Interventions (17)

Behavior Contracts

Creating Safe Playgrounds: A Whole-School Approach

Critters!: Rewarding Positive Behaviors

Defiant Kids: Communication Tools for Teachers

Dodging the Power-Struggle Trap: Ideas for Teachers

Mystery Motivator












Points for Grumpy
Positive Peer Reports: Reducing Negative Behavior Through Student
Compliments
Power of Random Positive Teacher Attention
Preventing Graffiti and Vandalism
Response-Cost Lottery
Response Effort
'Rubber Band' Plan
Strategies for Emotionally Unpredictable Students
Talk Ticket
Teacher Strategies to Shape Student Behaviors: A Menu
Time-Out
What Every Teacher Should Know About Punishment Techniques and
Behavior Plans
Dr. Mac’s Amazing Behavior Management Site
http://www.BehaviorAdvisor.com
Go To Tips for Becoming an Effective and Well-liked Behavior Manager
NICE Interventions that build self discipline in kids
Gaining RESPECT by giving it
Different ways to "CATCH 'EM BEING GOOD"
PROBLEMS with "catching them being good" (AND how to do it right)
Managing behavior with your INSTRUCTIONAL STYLE
Managing the behavior of GROUPS
Promoting POSITIVE PEER PRESSURE (Students help to manage the behavior of their
classmates)
Remembering to FOCUS ON YOUR GOAL (when kids get you flustered)
SCENARIOS for thought and discussion
Go to Strategies for Common Behaviors/Conditions
ADD and ADHD (Attention Deficit [Hyperactivity] Disorder)
Aggression & Violence (Preventing & defusing rage)
Aspergers Syndrome
Autism
"Backsliding"/Regression to former behaviors (after having made progress on behavior)
Biting (soon)
Bullying
Defiant, oppositional, resistant, and/or uncooperative behavior
Depression in Children
Lying (soon)
Not Motivated and/or Doesn't Care about Schooling
Sensory Integration Disorder (Might misbehavior be due to the brain having problems
making sense of incoming sensory information?)
Tattling
Testing The Limits (after the beginning-of-the-year "honeymoon" period
Go to Step-by-Step “How To Do It” Pages For:
Assertive Discipline
Cooperative Learning (Allowing students to learn in structured teams)
Creating your own Behavior Management System
Good-Natured Humor (Using wit to manage behavior)
Inclusion/Mainstreaming (of students with behavior disorders)
The IRS Plan (A home/school cooperative behavior management plan)
Ten Step Approach (A sequentially implemented approach)
Ten R Plan (A 10 step plan for dealing with non-compliant or violent behavior)
Weaning kids from rewards and developing internal motivation
Go to How to Use Psycho-Educational Interventions
What is "Psycho-Education"?
Bibliotherapy (The therapeutic use of reading with troubled kids)
Classroom Counseling
Classroom Meetings
"I Messages" (A non-confrontational way to address misbehavior)
LSI & LSCI (Life space interview & the more recent Life Space Crisis Intervention counseling techniques for teachers)
Non-directive Counseling Techniques
Play Therapy (The therapeutic use of play with troubled children)
Problem Solving (for kids who get into arguments, act impulsively, or make poor choices
about their behavior)
Social Skills Training (for kids who don't interact well with others)
Resources:
Tertiary Prevention
Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org/bk/focus/1096.htm
Go to: Behavior Management

Ensuring Student Success Through Team-Based Functional Behavioral
Assessment

Positive Behavior Support Systems: Applying Key Features in Preschool
Settings

Positive Behavior Supports: Can Schools Reshape Disciplinary Practices?

Positive Behavioral Support

The Link Between Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and
Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs)

Understanding and Addressing Oppositional and Defiant Classroom
Behaviors

Using Countoons to Teach Self-Monitoring Skills

Using Electronic and Other New Ways to Help Students Improve Their
Behavior: Functional Behavioral Assessment at Work

Using Functional Assessment to Promote Desirable Student Behavior in
Schools
The Behavior Home Page
http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/behave/homepage.html
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) and the Department of Special Education
and Rehabilitation Counseling at UK (SERC) are collaborating on this Web page on
student behavior. The purpose is to provide a format that allows school personnel,
parents, and other professionals to gain access to information, to share effective practices,
and to receive ongoing consultation and technical assistance concerning the full range of
behavior problems and challenges displayed by children and youth in school and
community settings, as well as other behavioral issues that may affect their success in
school.
Go to: Universal (School-wide) Intervention Resources
In the "Universal" Intervention section of the Behavior Home Page, you will find links to
Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS), Kentucky Instructional Discipline
and Support (KIDS) Project, Safe and Civil School materials, Safe and Responsive
Schools, Office of Special Education Programs, the Regional Intervention Program
(RIP), The Kentucky Center for School Safety, School Violence and Prevention, Social
Skill Resources, Anger Resources, Bullying Resources, and Peer Mediation.
Go to: Targeted (small groups or students at-risk for chronic behavior issues)
Intervention Resources
In the "Targeted" Intervention section of the Behavior Home Page, you will find links to
The Teacher's Encyclopedia of Behavior Management, Preventing Your Rules from
Falling Apart, Safe and Civil Schools Resources, Facilitator's Guide to Positive
Behavior Support, Time Out Procedures, Understanding Behavior: An Interactive
Tutorial, and Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plan
Resources
Go to: (Intensive chronic behavioral issues/ wraparound) Intervention Resources)
In the "Intensive" Intervention section of the Behavior Home Page, you will find links to
the Kentucky-EBD Technical Assistance Manual, The National Center on Education,
Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ), Center for Effective Collaboration and
Practice: Mental Health, and Wraparound resources.
Dr. Mac’s Amazing Behavior Management Site
http://www.BehaviorAdvisor.com
Go to How to Assess and Measure Behavior
Figuring out Why Kids Misbehave (and what to do about it)
Behavioral Recording (A way to accurately measure behavior)
Sociograms (A way to assess student interaction)
Functional Behavior Assessment (as per IDEA97...figuring out the reason for the
behavior)
Manifestation Determination (as per IDEA97...Was that action related to the disability?)
Go to “How to Use the Interventions of Applied Behavior Analysis”
What is ABA? (Applied behavior analysis...the interventions of the behaviorist model)
Contracts
Differential Reinforcement Procedures (reducing misbehavior in positive ways)
Overcorrection (Using repetition to deter future misbehavior)
Response Cost (Implementing penalties for misbehavior)
Schedules of Reinforcement (Deciding how often to give rewards)
Self-monitoring (Students keep track of their own behavior, thus building self-control)
Shaping (Building a desired behavior that the student doesn't show at present)
Task Analysis (Breaking a task into it's steps to be followed for completion)
Time Out (Removing a student from a setting that is promoting misbehavior)