Promoting Student Success by Kelly, Michelle P.; Austin, Jennifer L.;

Short description:

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.

Long description:

Many teachers face challenges in managing daily classroom behavior, which may result in 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 12 accessible chapters, this 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, emphasizing 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.

Table of Contents:

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. That’s 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