Schedules/
Procedures/Routines
Rules & Consequences
Behavior
Management
Classroom Arrangement
Potpourri
100
It is advisable to have these posted daily in the same location before students enter the room.
What are assignments?
100
Respect yourself, adults, and each other; Be on time to class; Be prepared to work; Use the language of the class; Raise your hand to speak.
What are examples of rules?
100
Operant Conditioning Behavioral Model
What is B.F. Skinner's theory
100
arrangement that makes it difficult for students to work in small groups
What are classic straight rows?
100
by age; by height; in alphabetical order; peer-group tutoring; placing lower-performing and more challenging students at the front of the room.
What are ways to arrange seating assignments?
200
Students take responsibility for their work.
What is the rationale for posting assignments in the same place?
200
Have students participate in creating classroom rules.
What is one way to have effective rules?
200
psychodynamic, operant conditioning, biophysical, environmental
What are conceptual models of behavior?
200
easy for teachers to spot chatty or misbehaving students
What is one advantage of classic rows arrangement?
200
To accomplish specific tasks and enhance communication
What is a seating arrangement?
300
Classes to recess; small group to whole group instruction; use of computers; lining up
What are transition times?
300
Rewards (following rules) and Consequences (breaking rules)
What are two kinds of consequences?
300
Systematic manipulation of eternal stimuli
What is a way to change behavior?
300
seating arrangements of students in groups of five or five groups of four.
What is a cooperative cluster arrangement?
300
An environmental event that precedes a behavior and influences the probability that it will recur in the future.
What is antecedent?
400
plan to manage time; teach routines; model specific steps
What effective teachers do?
400
Students are in their seats doing busywork or nothing; The only person who is observed working is the teacher; the teacher controls the class.
What is an ineffective classroom?
400
maladaptive behaviors that interfere with learning
What behaviorists look for?
400
this arrangement facilitates whole group discussions while still forcing students to face forward for teacher-directed instruction.
What is Horseshoe or U-shape?
400
One of the opportunities for the identification and manipulation of antecedents in the classroom
What is instructional content?
500
Automatic procedures
What are routines?
500
time away vs. time out; buddy room; detention; on campus suspension; call home - when behaviors cannot be remediated inside the classroom
What are samples of consequences?
500
The focus is on identifying observable behaviors and manipulating antecedents and consequences of these behaviors to change behaviors.
What is the belief that behavior is learned and can therefore be unlearned.
500
having these in your classroom arrangements make it easy for teachers to move around the classroom, provide space for students to move, and give teachers proximity to manage behavior and help students.
What are aisles?
500
a consequence that maintains or increases the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring.
What is a reinforcer?
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