When students are chronically defiant or non-compliant in the classroom, they can disrupt instruction and create great stress for classmates and teachers alike. This full-day workshop is designed to give teachers, support staff, and school administrators strategies that they can use immediately to manage challenging student behavior. 

The training includes:

• a review of research on defiant/non-compliant student behavior and principles of effective classroom management.
• guidance for teachers in setting up a series of effective classroom-level consequences for misbehavior to prevent low-level problem behaviors from escalating.
• a review of evidence-based classroom strategies to prevent, defuse, and deescalate serious episodes of student defiance and non-compliance.
• a focus on helping students to take responsibility for their behaviors through self-monitoring/self-evaluation, behavior contracts, and other methods.
• ideas for setting goals for improvement and measuring student progress on behavioral interventions.

Participants will also learn how they can access free behavioral intervention and assessment resources on the Internet.