What can happen in 200 milliseconds? In a word, everything. In that short time, your subconscious mind has shaped your perceptions and influenced your behaviors. In other words, you have experienced bias--for better or for worse. "Unlocking School Bias" ends the confusion around bias and provides educators with research and strategies…

Background: Excessive student anxiety is a common problem that severely impairs short- and long-term academic functioning and increases teacher burden. Reducing student anxiety has been associated with improvement in educational functioning. Because anxiety manifests daily in the classroom, teachers are in an ideal position to identify and help…

The purpose of this study is twofold: to determine the instructional variables of the inclusive classrooms in Turkey and to investigate to what extent the student behaviors change according to eco-behavioral characteristics of inclusive classrooms. The study group consisted of 44 students between the ages of six and 12 with mild disabilities who…

This chapter is concerned with adapting Motivational Interviewing to an early intervention addressing challenging behavior in classrooms. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a powerful vehicle for increasing motivation and changing behavior in adults, and has been shown to increase participant time in treatment, effort, and adherence to intervention…

Empirical evidence has attested to the benefits of autonomy support in a classroom context, in facilitating students' autonomous motivation, well-being, creativity, engagement, and persistence. However, most interventional research aiming to increase teachers' autonomy-supportive behaviors has been conducted in school and college contexts, with…

Results indicated that behavior modification techniques can be applied to individual students and to entire classes by the counselor or teacher, and desirable changes should occur. (Author)

Describes the involvement of pupils in increasing the frequency of teacher attention to appropriate classroom behaviors. Results indicate pupils can be successful intervention agents in aiding the teacher modify her behavior. (Author)

Article provided a summary of three effective techniques for developing better classroom discipline. (Author/RK)

This study explored the relationship between changes in student classroom behavior and teacher behavior. More specifically, teacher responses to students were evaluated as a function of systematic changes in the students' classroom behavior. The investigation was conducted in a fifth-grade classroom of a primary school located in a residential,…

Reported are research projects questioning the effectiveness of inservice teacher training and the effects of various mathematical curricula on student learning. (GW)

This document focuses on classroom discipline and how the teacher can maintain an environment that will optimize appropriate learning. Part 1 defines classroom discipline. Part 2 discusses classroom misbehavior and describes a number of classroom management techniques. Part 3 offers suggestions for control techniques. Part 4 discusses techniques…

The emphasis of this research report was on modification of classroom behavior. After a brief introduction, the two main learning theories of Gestalt-field psychology and stimulus-response association were investigated. The importance of the individual in modifying his own behavior was stressed in Gestalt-field psychology. The importance of…

This article presents the theoretical rationale for behavior modification, principally through its comparison with traditional psychotherapies, and suggests some behavior modification techniques for the classroom management of maladaptive behavior. (Author)

Reviews and evaluates the current research on the use of home-based reinforcement programs to modify both disruptive and academic behaviors in the classroom. (Author/MP)