Problem solving - Problem solving
- Identify the problem: state purpose of meeting, get students point of view/describe problem, ask students reaction; evaluate: help/hurt?
- Identify and select the solution: student suggestion, multiple teacher alternatives; positive focus with plan for improvement
- Obtain a commitment: student acceptance for period of time followed by evaluation (sometimes in a contract) with consequences if not followed
- Talking with parents
- Constructive assertiveness, empathetic responding, problem solving
- Express appreciation for parents’ efforts to meet,work w/them as a team
- Focus on choices student is making and how to encourage better decisions
- Document concerns: student work and notes of behaviors
- Chapter 8:
- Communication Skills for Teaching
- What is problem behavior?
- Nonproblem: brief inattention, transition talk
- Minor problem: students calling out, leaving seats, talk during group work
- Major problem, but limited in scope/effects: chronically off-task, failure to pass in hw assignments, vandalism, cheating
- Escalating or spreading problem: unabated social talking, back talk
- Goals for managing problem behavior
- Judge short-term (bad behaviors cease) and long-term effects (prevention) of any management strategy chosen
- Optimal: Maintain/restore order w/out adversely affecting learning environment; should prevent repetition of problem
Chapter 9: Managing Problem Behaviors - Management strategies
- Minor interventions
- Nonverbal cues: finger to lips, head shake, hand signal, light touch to arm
- Get activity moving: quick transitions, all materials ready
- Proximity: zones of proximity, combine w/nonverbal cues
- Group focus: group alerting, accountability, higher participation format
- Redirect behavior: state what should be done, “everybody should be writing answers to the practice problems”
- Provide needed instruction: check student work, whole-class instruction
- Brief desist: direct eye contact and assertiveness, combine w/redirection
- Give student a choice: behave appropriately or continue behavior w/consequence, “choose to clean up now or say after class until area is clean”
- I-message: “it’s distracting to me and the class when you get out of your seat,” learn awareness of effects of behavior on others
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