This definitive guide on supporting students throughout their learning journey provides clear, evidence-based practices for effectively managing behaviour issues. It empowers educators to create positive, productive learning environments, ensuring that every student has the opportunity to thrive.
Teachers often face challenges in managing daily classroom behavior, resorting to trial-and-error methods that can be time-consuming and ineffective. This guide addresses these challenges by providing clear, evidence-based practices for effectively managing behavior issues. It empowers educators to create positive, productive learning environments, ensuring that every student has the opportunity to thrive.
Organised into twelve accessible chapters, the book equips educators with straightforward strategies grounded in the science of applied behavior analysis. Each chapter provides step-by-step instructions for implementing proven techniques, emphasising the importance of understanding behavioral functions, reinforcement, promoting self-management, and making data-driven decisions. The strategies are tried, tested, and ready to use, enabling teachers to prevent disruptive behaviors and strengthen academic engagement across diverse classroom settings. Areas covered include effective peer tutoring, choice-making, fluency-based instruction, token economies, guided notes, active student engagement, and classroom management. Readers will also learn how to troubleshoot common challenges, evaluate the success of their strategies, and adapt interventions to suit their unique needs.
This is essential reading for teachers, teachers-in-training, teaching assistants, special and inclusive educators, and behavior analysts, offering a wealth of evidence-based and practical tools that enable positive change to promote student success in the classroom.
1. Promoting Student Success
2. Promoting Positive Behavior Is All Fun
and Games: Using the Good Behavior Game Classroom Management System
3. I Hear
You: Creating Meaningful Choice Opportunities
4. Giving Motivation a Nudge:
Using Tokens to Foster a Positive Learning Environment
5. Understanding
Behavior Is as Easy as ABC: Identifying Functions of Behavior
6. SWAG (Stuff
We All Get) in the Classroom: Preventing Problematic Behavior with Time-Based
Reinforcement
7. You Got This: Using Self-Management to Promote Positive
Student Behavior
8. All Together Now: Promoting Participation with Active
Student Responding
9. Thats What Friends Are For: Promoting Collaborative
Learning with Peer Tutoring
10. Practice Makes Progress: Promoting Fluency
with Frequency Building
11. Getting it Write the First Time: Supporting
Notetaking with Guided Notes
12. Knowing If It Works: The Importance of
Data-based Decision-Making
Michelle P. Kelly, PhD, BCBA-D, is an Associate Professor at Emirates College for Advanced Education, a teacher education institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Her research centers on ethical, inclusive, and evidence-based practices that promote student learning and well-being, with a particular emphasis on supporting both parents and educators.
Jennifer L. Austin, PhD, BCBA-D, is an Associate Professor at Georgia State University, USA. Her research and clinical work focus on applying behavior analysis in high-risk education settings in ways that are positive, evidence-based, and collaborative.
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