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.
- PowerPoint:Motivating Students Through Positive Behavior Management, [1]
- Workshop Handout [2]
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 [5]
- Zone Defense System: Form in MS Word. [6]
- Good Behavior Game [7]
- Teacher-Student Learning Game [8]
- The Color Wheel: Group-Wide Classroom Management [9]
- Defensive Management: 6 Steps to Organize the Classroom [10]
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.
- Handout: Mindsets: The Power to Help or Hinder Student Motivation [12]
Interventions that promote academic success and student independence::
- Read-Ask-Paraphrase. [13] The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer. RAP Interactive Form [14]
- Ask-Read-Tell. [15]The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished. ART Interactive Form. [16]
- Learning Contracts [17]
- Version 1: Interactive Learning Contract| [18]Example of a Completed Learning Contract [19]
- Version 2: Interactive Learning Contract [20]|Example of a Completed Learning Contract [21]
- Student Self-Regulation: Work-Planning Conference: Description [22]
- Student Independent Work: Planning Tool: Interactive Form [23]
- VIDEO: Academic Survival Skills Checklists [24]
- ONLINE APP: Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker [25]
- HANDOUT: Academic Survival Skills Checklists: 5 Ways to Help Students to Become Effective Self-Managing Learners [26]
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. [27] Use this application to make a unique checklist of behavior for the student to follow, use to self-monitor, etc.
- Choice 2: [28]Behavior Report Card Maker. [28] 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. [29]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: [30]Intervention Planner for Behavior. [30]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 [31]. 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 [32]. 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. [33] 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.