Teaching Behavior: Managing Classrooms Through Effective Teaching

Every teacher knows that the perfect lesson plan is useless without effective classroom management. But what’s the best way to foster student engagement, differentiate instruction, handle disruptive students, and promote positive behaviour? The answer is in how you teach.

Teaching Behavior goes well beyond setting classroom rules, communicating consequences, and providing the usual tips on engaging students and building relationships. It draws on the most current evidence-based practices and rich, real-world examples to get to the heart of effective teaching. A national expert in behaviour and special education, Terry Scott shares clear, detailed and proven instructional strategies to maximise student success. Teaching Behavior is ideal as a teacher guide or textbook, offering

• New insights on why instruction is the foundation for all student behaviour
• Practical tools for managing all types of students and classrooms, including the most challenging
• Self-assessment checklists and discussion questions for teacher book-study groups
• Accompanying video modules for each chapter

Wherever you are in your teaching career, Teaching Behavior will give you the innovative, day-to-day tools to conquer the toughest behaviour challenges and make your classroom more effective and fun — for you and your students.

Table of Contents

Preface

Section I: Behavior and Instruction

1. The Teacher Defined - What it means to be a teacher
2. Effective Teachers Provide Effective Instruction - Teachers use effective practices
3. Evidence, and Probability in Defining Effective Teaching Practice - Some things work better than other things
4. Behavior - Communicating about what students do and don’t do
5. Assessing Behavior - Knowing why behavior happens so we can identify what to teach

Section II: The Daily Grind

6. Setting up a Classroom - Arranging environments to predict maximum success
7. Planning Instruction I: The Learner - Planning for what to teach and gather materials
8. Planning Instruction II: The Lesson - Planning and sequencing examples for instruction
9. Presenting Instruction - Providing effective and engaging instruction
10. Providing Consequences for Behavior - Feedback as an essential part of instruction

Section III: Individualized Strategies

11. Measuring Behavior - Assessing the degree to which instruction has been effective
12. Systems, Tricks, and Strategies in the Classroom
• Ignoring Game
• Group contingencies
• Behavior Momentum
• Choice
• Differential Reinforcement for Inappropriate Behaviors
• Differential Reinforcement for Extreme Behaviors
• Differential Reinforcement for Too Frequent Behaviors
• Good Behavior Game
• Positive Peer Reporting
• Self-Management
• Token Economies
• Phase Level Systems
13. Responding to Escalations and Crises
• Basic Considerations
• Non-Compliant and Defiant Behaviors
• Disrespectful Behavior
• Disruption
• Provocative Behavior
• Fighting and Aggressive Behavior

Checklist for Effective Teaching

References

Index

"Classroom management is, was, and always will be of concern to educators. Teaching Behavior is a great springboard for focused dialogue between experienced and beginning teachers on this topic."
- Sandra Moore, ELA Teacher, Coupeville High School

"Every teacher has encountered students who have outbursts that cause the teacher to wonder about the best strategy for dealing with their conduct while trying to prevent the outbursts in the future. Terry Scott provides numerous suggestions for educators who want to teach students ways to address their behavior in order to have a positive impact not only on the students' conduct but ultimately on their academic success. Teachers will appreciate the practical examples and detailed guidance for addressing a variety of challenges."
- Marcia B. Imbeau, Ph.D., Professor, University of Arkansas