Green Strategies
This calming space in the classroom is meant for children to de-stress, calm down, or take a short break.
What is a Cozy Corner?
Stories designed to clarify expectations without aiming to directly change behavior.
What are Social Stories?
This strategy requires avoiding compliance standoffs by focusing on antecedent interventions.
What is Avoiding Power Struggles?
This strategy involves publicly humiliating or criticizing students, which can have harmful effects, especially for students with adverse childhood experiences.
What is Shaming?
This visual strategy helps students see what they need to do before moving on to something more desirable.
What is a First and Then Board?
This approach emphasizes creating structured classroom routines and using visual schedules to reduce anxiety in children.
What is Providing Predictability?
This approach involves teaching children alternative skills that serve the same purpose as their inappropriate behavior.
What is Teaching New Skills?
A brief directive to steer a child towards appropriate behavior, used sparingly to avoid escalation.
What is Redirection?
This strategy involves removing a student's opportunity to participate in activities like recess or snack time as a punishment, which is never recommended.
What is Loss of Privileges?
Giving students a say in their activities helps them feel more in control.
What is Proactively Providing Choices?
This strategy encourages collaboration between teachers, caregivers, and other staff to create a cohesive support system for the child.
What is Using a Team Approach?
This individualized instruction format focuses on building skills in a small, distraction-free environment.
What is Small Group or 1:1 Pullout?
A temporary, gentle touch used to guide a student to another location.
What is Physical Escort?
This strategy involves removing a student from a classroom activity for a period of time as a punishment, which should never be used in preschool.
What is Time Out?
This involves familiarizing students with materials or activities in advance to reduce stress and anxiety.
What is Priming?
Teachers are encouraged to have these for all students, as they lead to improved achievement and behavior.
What is Optimism and High Expectations?
A strategy that replaces problem behaviors with appropriate ways to communicate needs or wants.
What is Functional Communication Training?
The contingent removal of earned reinforcers following an inappropriate behavior.
What is Contingent Loss of Materials or Privileges?
These are consequences intended to decrease undesirable behavior, but they fail to teach students how to behave appropriately and are not recommended.
What are Aversive Consequences?
This strategy emphasizes observing what motivates a child and using it to increase desired behaviors.
What is Reinforcement? DOUBLE JEOPARDY! (Model 3 different types)
This strategy involves maintaining your composure and not mirroring the child’s emotions during stressful situations.
What is Staying Calm? DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
A strategy where prompts such as verbal, visual, or physical are used to support students until they can complete tasks independently.
What are Prompting Strategies? DOUBLE JEOPARDY! (Model 3 different types)
Green strategies that should be used before contingent loss of materials or privileges.
What is Priming, Offering Choices, Stating Behavior Expectations, and Modeling? DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This strategy involves using verbal techniques like pleading, yelling, or threatening to reduce behavior.
What are Reprimands? DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
A strategy involving a pattern of easy tasks followed by a challenging one to build motivation and compliance.
What is Behavior Momentum? DOUBLE JEOPARDY!