Coping with common behavior problems

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Coping with common behavior problems

• Chapter 7

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Surface behaviors

• Verbal interruptions
• Off-task behavior
• Disruptive physical movements
• Three tiers
• Consequences
• Verbal behaviors
• Nonverbal behaviors

Intrusiveness
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Proximity Interference

• Any movement toward the student

Touch Interference

• 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