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Jim Wright: Behavior Management Workshops
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On Friday, 9 October 2015, Jim Wright presented a keynote address, Motivating Students Through Positive Behavior Management, to K-8 staff of Onalaska (WI) Public Schools. Here are resources from that training day.
Tool 1: RTI & Group Behavior: Classwide Management Checklist. Teachers can use this checklist to evaluate effective behavior management in their classrooms.
Group Behavior Management Ideas:
- Using a Zone Defense System in Primary Classrooms
- Zone Defense System: Form in MS Word.
- Good Behavior Game
- Teacher-Student Learning Game
- The Color Wheel: Group-Wide Classroom Management
- Defensive Management: 6 Steps to Organize the Classroom
Tool 2: Big Ideas in Behavior Management: These important ideas can help teachers to more effectively manage challenging student behaviors.
Tool 3: Growth Mindset: Teachers can combat 'learned helplessness‘ by structuring classroom statements to encourage optimism and motivation.
Interventions that promote academic success and student independence::
- Read-Ask-Paraphrase. The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer. RAP Interactive Form
- Ask-Read-Tell. The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished. ART Interactive Form.
- Learning Contracts
- Version 1: Interactive Learning Contract|Example of a Completed Learning Contract
- Version 2: Interactive Learning Contract|Example of a Completed Learning Contract
- Student Self-Regulation: Work-Planning Conference: Description
- Student Independent Work: Planning Tool: Interactive Form
- VIDEO: Academic Survival Skills Checklists
- ONLINE APP: Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker
- HANDOUT: Academic Survival Skills Checklists: 5 Ways to Help Students to Become Effective Self-Managing Learners
Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Activity: Creating Digital Resources. Choose one of the applications
Directions. Select one of these online applications. Create and download an original document or resource using the app.
- Choice 1:Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker. Use this application to make a unique checklist of behavior for the student to follow, use to self-monitor, etc.
- Choice 2: Behavior Report Card Maker. Create a customized Behavior Report Card for a student in your classroom to conveniently rate his or her behaviors on a daily basis.
- Choice 3: Jackpot Reward Finder. Use the Reward Finder to make reinforcer surveys to discover what rewards motivate students. Also, create reward menus for student to choose from when they have earned an incentive.
- Choice 4: Intervention Planner for Behavior. Browse research-based intervention ideas in this application—and select those that you would like to use with a particular student.
Here are websites to evaluate Tier 2/3 Interventions:
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: What Works Clearinghouse. This website reviews core instruction and intervention programs in reading & mathematics, as well as other academic areas. The site reviews existing studies and draws conclusions about whether specific intervention programs show evidence of effectiveness.
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: Best Evidence Encyclopedia. This site provides reviews of evidence-based math and reading programs. The website is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) .
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: National Center on Intensive Intervention Academic Intervention Chart. Sponsored by the National Center on Intensive Intervention, this page provides ratings to intervention programs in math, reading, and writing. Users can sort their search by subject and grade level.