Preventing Challenging Behavior in Your Classroom (2nd ed.) presents practical strategies to prevent and reduce behavior problems and enhance student learning, focusing on Positive Behavior Support (PBS). This book:
- Discusses the myths and facts of effective classroom management.
- Provides an overview of the conceptual and empirical basis of PBS.
- Describes evidence-based PBS interventions.
- Employs easy-to-understand language to facilitate teachers' knowledge.
- Provides real-world examples in conjunction with recommendations to enhance teachers' understanding and implementation of PBS.
The updated second edition of the book includes expanded coverage of research-based interventions, tips and strategies for effective behavior management, and culturally responsive behavior intervention techniques.
Revised with an eye toward the ever-evolving research base undergirding Positive Behavior 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 behavior problems and enhance student learning.
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
Matt Tincani is a Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Temple University, USA. He focuses on the application of behavioral principles to improve language, academic, social, and play skills of learners with autism spectrum disorders and other disabilities, with a particular interest in Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior.