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Kristy Hynes; Tracy Gershwin; Jason Robinson; Chrissa Mitchell – Beyond Behavior, 2025
Meaningful student-teacher relationships form a crucial foundation for teachers to deliver effective interventions leading to better outcomes for students with challenging behavior. By implementing simple recommendations for facilitating genuine and intentional interactions with students and regulating their own emotional responses, teachers can…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
Pérez, Paloma; Gil, Haley; Artola, Arabiye; Royer, David James; Lane, Kathleen Lynne – Preventing School Failure, 2023
In this article, we introduce behavior-specific praise as a portable, feasible strategy for teachers and families to increase student engagement as well as to decrease off-task and disruptive behaviors in a variety of environments. We provide step-by-step guidance to illustrate how behavior-specific praise can be used by teachers during in-person…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Student Behavior, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Daniels, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Behavior-specific praise is an evidenced-based and effective classroom and behavior management strategy. Despite the effectiveness of behavior-specific praise, low rates of classroom implementation and expressed needs for additional professional learning on classroom and behavior management strategies persist. School leaders can use existing staff…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Positive Reinforcement, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Education
Wills, Howard P.; Caldarella, Paul; Williams, Leslie; Fleming, Kandace; Chen, Pei-Yu – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2023
Middle school is a cornerstone for success in high school. However, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement of adolescents often decline as they transition from elementary to middle school, resulting in lower school grades and more challenging behaviors, especially for adolescents with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Intervention
Collins, Lauren W.; Landrum, Timothy J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2023
A tremendous amount of evidence supports the importance of building relationships between educators and students (Kincaide et al., 2020). Because of this, there is an emerging focus in both research and practice on how student-teacher relationships are assessed, the impact of these relationships on student outcomes, and methods for building and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Modification, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Behavior
Floress, Margaret T.; Briesch, Amy M.; Jenkins, Lyndsay N.; Hampton, Kaylee A. – Behavioral Disorders, 2022
This study examined the generalizability and dependability of observational estimates of middle and high school teachers' use of praise and reprimands. Frequency of behavior-specific praise, general praise, and total reprimands were collected across 67, 20-min observations that took place during class-wide instruction in general education…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers, Discipline
Markelz, Andrew M.; Riden, Benjamin S.; Morano, Stephanie; Hazelwood, Alicia L.; Taylor, April M. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2023
Research has demonstrated that behavior specificity is a salient characteristic of teacher praise efficacy. Praise variety may also be an important characteristic to reinforce desired student behavior based on research about the quality of reinforcers. In this study, we used an alternating treatments design to examine the effects of varied and…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Student Behavior, Time on Task, Program Effectiveness
Menzies, Holly M.; Chang, Ya-Chih; Smith-Menzies, Lucia – Beyond Behavior, 2023
This article discusses the use of behavior-specific praise (BSP), an effective technique for promoting prosocial behavior and managing classrooms. It addresses the criticism that BSP may reduce students' intrinsic motivation and offers directions on how to use BSP to provide students, especially those with challenging behaviors, with useful…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Positive Reinforcement, Prosocial Behavior, Classroom Techniques
Kennedy, Alana M.; Haydon, Todd – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2021
The quality of the relationship that develops between a student and teacher has been connected to pivotal instructional and behavioral outcomes for students. The student-teacher relationship can specifically be harnessed to reduce minor behavioral infractions. However, it is an element of the learning environment that is often overlooked. This…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques
Melanie Nelson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student behavior is a major concern for all teachers as classroom management is key to improving educational outcomes. Despite many schools utilizing punitive strategies, research suggests that positive behavior intervention supports (PBIS) are more appropriate and effective at improving student behavior. One such intervention, the Good Behavior…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Positive Behavior Supports, Student Behavior, Classroom Techniques
Chow, Jason C.; Zimmerman, Kathleen N.; Senter, Reed – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Many speech-language pathologists (SLPs) experience challenging behaviors during service delivery and also report minimal training in effective behavior management strategies. The purpose of this tutorial is to present low-effort behavior management strategies that SLPs can adopt, adapt, and implement. Method: After providing an overall…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Program Effectiveness, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology
Mercanoglu, Anil Onur – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
Determining the misbehaviors encountered in physical education classes and the methods used against these behaviors is important both in terms of producing new solutions by revealing the current situation in classroom management and providing a preliminary information for teachers who will just start the profession. The aim of the study is to…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers
Ennis, Robin Parks; Royer, David James; Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Dunlap, Kristin Diane – Behavioral Disorders, 2020
Behavior-specific praise (BSP) is a low-intensity strategy widely used to encourage appropriate behavior. We sought to explore the vast literature base for BSP, which spans 50 years, to better understand for whom and under what conditions BSP has demonstrated effectiveness. We conducted a comprehensive review of school-based intervention studies…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Student Behavior, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Billingsley, Glenna M.; McKenzie, Jennifer M.; Scheuermann, Brenda K. – Exceptionality, 2020
Comprehensive classroom management that promotes positive student behavior is necessary in secondary school. Techniques must be easy for teachers to manage across multiple class periods and be developmentally appropriate for older students. While previous literature has examined elements of classroom management in isolation, this study introduced…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, High School Students, Special Education
Simpson, Jessica N.; Hopkins, Stephanie; Eakle, Christopher D.; Rose, Chad A. – Beyond Behavior, 2020
An increasing number of students with emotional and behavioral disorders are being served in general education environments. This article provides general and special education teachers with step-by-step instructions in three classroom management strategies that, when implemented well, can increase academic engagement and reduce challenging…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Emotional Disturbances