Preventing Challenging Behavior in Your Classroom: Classroom Management and Positive Behavior Support

Revised with an eye toward the ever-evolving research base under girding positive behaviour support (PBS) and related approaches, Preventing Challenging Behavior in Your Classroom, second edition, focuses on real-world examples and practical strategies to prevent and reduce behaviour problems and enhance student learning.

Featuring a new chapter on culturally responsive PBS, this second edition helps readers understand disparities in punitive responses and identify strategies to promote equitable, positive school discipline. Teachers will be able to smartly appraise the efficacy of a range of classroom management practices with the help of updated standards, function-based strategies to differentiate evidence-based from questionable or harmful practices, and resources and tools for evaluation.

Written in engaging, easy-to-understand language, this book is an invaluable resource for pre- and in-service educators looking to strengthen their understanding and implementation of equitable PBS.

Table of Contents

1. What Is Positive Behavior Support?
2. Culturally Responsive PBS
3. Myths and Facts About Effective Classroom Management
4. The Foundation: Classroom Organizers
5. Active Student Responding to Prevent Challenging Behaviors
6. Classroom Wide Behavior Support
7. Functional Behavioral Assessment
8. Function-Based Interventions and Behavior Intervention Programming
9. Using Data to Evaluate PBS Outcomes
10. Putting It Together: Evidence-Based Classroom Managment Inventory (EB-CMI)
11. Glossary
12. References
13. About the Author