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Coping with common behavior problems

Learn how to address verbal interruptions, off-task behavior, and disruptive movements in three tiers. Discover proactive and remedial intervention skills that enhance student engagement and redirect disruptive behaviors while fostering positive relationships. Understand nonverbal intervention methods like planned ignoring, signal interference, and proximity interference to maintain a conducive learning environment.

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Coping with common behavior problems

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  1. Chapter 7 Coping with common behavior problems

  2. Surface behaviors • Verbal interruptions • Off-task behavior • Disruptive physical movements Three tiers • Consequences • Verbal behaviors • Nonverbal behaviors Intrusiveness

  3. Perquisites to Management • Teacher is well prepared to teach • Teacher provides clear directions and expectations of the learning material • Clearly explains importance of material and how it may relate to students’ lives • Clearly communicates and enforces behavioral expectations • Models the expected behavior to students • Builds positive and caring relationships with students

  4. Proactive intervention skills • Changing the pace of classroom activities • Removing seductive objects • Interest boosting of a student who shows signs of off-task behavior • Redirecting the behavior of off-task students • Non-punitive time out • Encouraging the appropriate behavior of other students • Providing cues for expected behavior

  5. Remedial Intervention Skills The purpose is to redirect students in learning • Nonverbal Intervention provides a student with opportunities for self-control. • Intervention does not cause more disruption to the teaching than the disruptive behavior • Intervention defuses the confrontational situation • Intervention protects students • Choice of the specific intervention maximizes the number of alternatives left

  6. Nonverbal skills Planned Ignoring • Operant Conditioning • Extinction procedure • Removal of reinforcement increases the behavior in the short-term • Child may receive reinforcement from other students

  7. Signal Interference • Nonverbal behavior by teacher that communicates to the student to stop • Eye contact • Pointing to a seat • Head shaking • Holding up a hand

  8. Proximity Interference Touch Interference • Any movement toward the student • Light, nonaggressive physical contact with the student • Beware that some students might perceive this as an aggressive attack, so know your student first! • Beware of touch with students of the opposite sex

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