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Nasaskyia R. Hicks – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Problem behavior disrupts classrooms across the United States, impacting student learning. Despite the adverse consequences, teachers often exclude disruptive students from school as a punitive and default response to problem behavior. Alternatives to exclusion are becoming increasingly popular in many school districts to improve behavior and keep…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Discipline
Perrodin, David P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Schools across the United States use abeyance agreements as an alternative to suspension or expulsion, yet little is known about them. These agreements allow students to avoid or reduce suspensions or expulsions, if they meet the terms of the agreement and waive certain due process rights. David Perrodin argues that these agreements enable school…
Descriptors: Suspension, Expulsion, Discipline Policy, Behavior Standards
Minahan, Jessica; Ablon, J. Stuart – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Anxiety, one of the most common underlying causes of challenging student behavior, typically goes undiscovered and unaddressed through school-based behavior supports. Jessica Minahan and Stuart Ablon combine their expertise as a behavior analyst and a psychologist to outline how best to support students whose anxiety leads to challenging behavior.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Skill Development
Mahoney, Joseph L.; Durlak, Joseph A.; Weissberg, Roger P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Joseph Mahoney, Joseph Durlak, and Roger Weissberg compare results from four large-scale meta-analyses of student outcomes related to participation in universal, school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) programs. Their examination includes 356 research reports with rigorous designs and outcome data at post or follow-up from hundreds of…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Fergus, Edward – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Many school practitioners think of poverty as a kind of "culture," characterized by dysfunctional behaviors that can only be corrected by imposing harsh discipline on students. Further, beliefs about poverty are often used to justify racial disparities in disciplinary referrals, achievement, and enrollment in gifted, AP, and honors…
Descriptors: Poverty, Racial Bias, Teacher Attitudes, Cultural Differences
Rappaport, Nancy; Minahan, Jessica – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
There is no definitive research on how many students display sexualized behavior in schools. Sexually inappropriate behavior includes using sexual language, gestures, or noises, engaging in pretend play that simulates sex, making sexual invitations to others, inappropriately touching another person, or masturbating in the classroom. These…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Disorders
Wright, Travis – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Though we do our best to protect children from life's underbelly, bad things happen. Hurricanes, school shootings, divorce, exploding crime rates, economic downturns, child abuse, and acts of terror have become reality for many. Sadly, students are not immune from the chaos that often results. If a child worries that he is not safe or thinks…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Risk, At Risk Students, Teacher Student Relationship
Greene, Ross W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
What we're thinking about behaviorally challenging students and what we're doing to them requires a fresh look. When schools believe that parental discipline explains a child's misbehavior, educators are less likely to consider different explanations for the misbehavior and the full range of interventions that could be implemented at school. And…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Attribution Theory, Discipline
Landrum, Timothy J.; Scott, Terrance M.; Lingo, Amy S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Dealing with difficult behavior is a matter of awareness of the factors involved in prediction, prevention, and instruction. This means three things: Teachers know, or can be assisted in thinking through the environmental events and contexts that are associated with higher probabilities of problem behavior. Second, teachers can actively manipulate…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Teacher Responsibility
Greene, Ross – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
Viewing challenging behavior as the result of lagging skills (kids do well if they can) rather than as poor motivation (kids do well if they want to) has significant ramifications for how adults interact with kids with behavioral challenges and try to help them. A wide range of lagging skills can set the stage for challenging behavior. Challenging…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Student Motivation, Teacher Responsibility
Phlegar, Fred L.; Phlegar, Barbara – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Argues for the role of good nutrition in reducing student behavior problems and offers suggestions on what educators can do to improve the eating habits of students. (IRT)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Dietetics, Elementary Secondary Education, Hyperactivity
Idstein, Pete – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
Describes elementary principal's herculean efforts to obtain higher level of service for problematic second grader. Thanks to mainstreaming requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, moving this student to a "more restrictive environment" took almost nine months, hundreds of hours of work, and thousands of dollars to achieve.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Bureaucracy, Elementary Education, Federal Legislation
Rowe, Robert N. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1970
Violations of ethical principles present dilemmas for college students, teachers, counselors, and administrators. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Cheating, College Students
Canter, Lee – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
Explains proper and improper interpretations of the author's assertive discipline program. Teachers need to communicate clear rules for the classroom, teach students how to follow them, employ positive reinforcement, and use firm and consistent negative consequences for rule-breakers as a last resort. Includes five references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Discipline