A well-managed classroom is an important condition for increasing student learning (Hattie, 2009) and a challenging task for teacher planning. Advanced planning for managing anticipated problem behavior increases the likelihood of “responding” verses “reacting” to student misbehavior. Research A well-managed classroom is an important condition for increasing student learning (Hattie, 2009) and a challenging… Read More Responding to Problem Behavior and Maintaining a Positive Learning Environment… A Balanced Equation for Classroom Management
Preparing for the New School Year: Pulling it Together with Instructional Planning
“How can we set up an environment that makes it more likely that students will succeed?” ?” “How can we choose the correct research-based strategies to use in the classroom?” With so many resources and so little time available, it may be helpful to have a reference to consider data-based decision making and planning. … Read More Preparing for the New School Year: Pulling it Together with Instructional Planning
Invitation to Read: A Classroom that Supports Reading for Every Student
Create an inviting, literacy rich, and motivating classroom that supports reading, while students actively engage with text, peers, and others. Engineer your classroom as an environment where students are enticed to learn to read, discuss their reading, and consequently, become motivated by their own reading successes. Research To improve reading skills, students must read. Students… Read More Invitation to Read: A Classroom that Supports Reading for Every Student
Developing Early Literacy Skills through Shared-Reading
One shared-reading practice is called dialogic reading. In dialogic reading, the adult prompts the children by asking questions about the story or the pictures in the book, and provides feedback in the form of repetitions, expansions, and modeling of answers (National Early Literacy Panel, 2009). Research Shared-reading is often recommended as the single most… Read More Developing Early Literacy Skills through Shared-Reading
Publishing: A Great Way to Make Writing Exciting
ALL student writing can proceed through these steps that lead to a published product. This includes the works of students who scribble, use alternative pencils, or dictate their work to a scribe. Here are a few ideas for fun, and to reinforce publishing. Research The writing process features a number of steps beginning with… Read More Publishing: A Great Way to Make Writing Exciting
The Power of Eight!! Pulling it Together with Instructional Planning Effective Behavior Practices and Academic Strategies to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners
In their meta-analysis of “what works” in classroom instruction, Mastropieri and Scruggs (2009) examined some commonly used content area interventions for students with disabilities and found “moderate to large effect sizes” for selected interventions. Implementing these practices establishes the “conditions for learning” and represents one of the most effective ways to reduce problem behavior in school (McIntosh, Sadler, & Brown, 2012). Read More The Power of Eight!! Pulling it Together with Instructional Planning Effective Behavior Practices and Academic Strategies to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners
Evidenced-Based Practices: The Use of Token Economies as Conditioned Reinforcement
A token economy is a system for providing positive reinforcement to a child or children by giving them tokens for completing tasks or behaving in desired ways. Token economies are used as a method of strengthening a behavior or increasing its frequency, because the tokens are a way of “rewarding” children for completing tasks. … Read More Evidenced-Based Practices: The Use of Token Economies as Conditioned Reinforcement
