Preventing Problem Behaviors

Schoolwide Programs and Classroom Practices
Second Edition
Preventing Problem Behaviors
March 2010 | 248 pages | Corwin
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"A wonderful tool for administrators and teachers that offers child-centered resources and ideas to help our learners succeed, thereby making our classrooms more effective. I especially love the sample behavior reports, progress monitoring charts, and the self-monitoring chart. Helping students see that they are responsible for their actions and making them partners in their education are effective practices."
—Megan M. Allen, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Cleveland Elementary School, Tampa, FL

Prevention is the key to a successful school behavior plan!

In today's increasingly diverse PreK–12 classrooms, problem behaviors can often interrupt instructional time and disrupt learning. Designed for 21st-century school leaders, administrators, behavior specialists, and classroom teachers, this research-based guide offers specific strategies and plans for preventing problem behavior at both the classroom and school level.

Based on the premise that early response to problems can lead to better outcomes for students, the book's content is framed around four essential areas: foundations, intervention, collaboration, and evaluation. Within these areas, this accessible guide features:

  • The latest information on the science and practice of prevention
  • Reasons why conflict resolution, peer mediation, and bully-proofing are essential to prevention
  • Effective practices for teaching social skills to young children
  • Proven techniques for implementing schoolwide positive behavior support
  • Tools for using individual behavior plans to prevent problems
  • Ideas for home-school and community partnerships and culturally responsible teaching
  • Critical strategies for monitoring student progress and evaluating prevention practices
  • New, updated chapters, including information on preschool behavior support and RTI

This valuable resource provides all the tools and strategies school leaders and teachers need to keep children focused on learning.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • 1. Prevention Science and Practice
  • What We Know about Prevention Practice
  • What We Know about Response to Intervention
  • What We Know about Behavior and Academics
  • Changing the Lives of Students with Problems
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 2. Preschool Behavior Support
  • Importance of Teaching Social Skills in Preschool
  • Effective Practices for Teaching Social Skills to Young Children
  • Teaching Young Children How to Behave in Social Settings
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 3. Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support
  • Definition and Importance of SWPBS
  • Characteristics and Effective Practices of SWPBS
  • Effectiveness of SWPBS
  • Perspective on School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 4. Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in School Settings
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions
  • Theoretical Underpinnings of CBI
  • Current Research on CBI
  • School-Based CBIs
  • A CBI Example
  • Summary
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 5. Social Skills Instruction and Generalization Strategies
  • Social Skills, Social Competence, and Curricula
  • Generalization of Social Skills and Building Performance Competence
  • Why Social Skills Programs Sometimes Fail
  • Gaining Community Support for Social Skills Training
  • Importance of Improving and Generalizing Social Skills
  • 6. Conflict Resolution, Peer Mediation, and Bullying Prevention
  • Some Program Definitions
  • A Developmental Framework
  • Characteristics of Effective CRE Programs
  • How to Sustain CRE and Bullying Prevention Programs
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 7. Classroom Interventions and Individual Behavior Plans
  • What Educators Should Know About the RTI Model
  • RTI as a Schoolwide and Classroom Management Approach
  • Effective Classroom Management Approaches
  • Tier 2 Behavior Plans for Students
  • Behavior Planning for Tier 2 Students
  • Summary of Tier 2 Behavior Planning
  • Individualized Behavior Plan (BIP)
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Effective Home-School Partnerships
  • The Importance of Home-School Partnerships
  • Principles and Key Features of Home-School Partnerships
  • Characteristics of Effective Home-School Partnerships
  • Home-School Partnerships and Challenging Behavior
  • Illustration from Practice
  • 9. Community and Interagency Partnerships
  • Poverty, Immigrant Status and Risk
  • Interagency Approaches to Preventing Problem Behavior
  • Core Principles and Governance Structure
  • Linkages to Learning in Action
  • Preventing Problem Behaviors with Community Partnerships
  • 10. Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Culture and Today's Classrooms
  • Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Teaching Appropriate Behavior
  • Teaching Behavior to CLD Learners
  • Conclusion
  • Illustrations from Practice
  • 11. Monitoring Student Progress and Evaluating Prevention Practices
  • Evaluating Outcomes of Prevention Efforts
  • Designing Program Evaluations
  • Measurement Issues
  • Common Hazards in Program Evaluation
  • Disseminating Evaluation Information
  • Measuring Success of Preventing Programs
  • 12. Building and Sustaining Effective Prevention Practices
  • Building Effective Prevention Practices
  • Putting It All Together

Postscript

Postscript

References

References

Index

Index

Description

"A wonderful tool for administrators and teachers that offers child-centered resources and ideas to help our learners succeed, thereby making our classrooms more effective. I especially love the sample behavior reports, progress monitoring charts, and the self-monitoring chart. Helping students see that they are responsible for their actions and making them partners in their education are effective practices."
—Megan M. Allen, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Cleveland Elementary School, Tampa, FL

Prevention is the key to a successful school behavior plan!

In today's increasingly diverse PreK–12 classrooms, problem behaviors can often interrupt instructional time and disrupt learning. Designed for 21st-century school leaders, administrators, behavior specialists, and classroom teachers, this research-based guide offers specific strategies and plans for preventing problem behavior at both the classroom and school level.

Based on the premise that early response to problems can lead to better outcomes for students, the book's content is framed around four essential areas: foundations, intervention, collaboration, and evaluation. Within these areas, this accessible guide features:

  • The latest information on the science and practice of prevention
  • Reasons why conflict resolution, peer mediation, and bully-proofing are essential to prevention
  • Effective practices for teaching social skills to young children
  • Proven techniques for implementing schoolwide positive behavior support
  • Tools for using individual behavior plans to prevent problems
  • Ideas for home-school and community partnerships and culturally responsible teaching
  • Critical strategies for monitoring student progress and evaluating prevention practices
  • New, updated chapters, including information on preschool behavior support and RTI

This valuable resource provides all the tools and strategies school leaders and teachers need to keep children focused on learning.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • 1. Prevention Science and Practice
  • What We Know about Prevention Practice
  • What We Know about Response to Intervention
  • What We Know about Behavior and Academics
  • Changing the Lives of Students with Problems
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 2. Preschool Behavior Support
  • Importance of Teaching Social Skills in Preschool
  • Effective Practices for Teaching Social Skills to Young Children
  • Teaching Young Children How to Behave in Social Settings
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 3. Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support
  • Definition and Importance of SWPBS
  • Characteristics and Effective Practices of SWPBS
  • Effectiveness of SWPBS
  • Perspective on School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 4. Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in School Settings
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions
  • Theoretical Underpinnings of CBI
  • Current Research on CBI
  • School-Based CBIs
  • A CBI Example
  • Summary
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 5. Social Skills Instruction and Generalization Strategies
  • Social Skills, Social Competence, and Curricula
  • Generalization of Social Skills and Building Performance Competence
  • Why Social Skills Programs Sometimes Fail
  • Gaining Community Support for Social Skills Training
  • Importance of Improving and Generalizing Social Skills
  • 6. Conflict Resolution, Peer Mediation, and Bullying Prevention
  • Some Program Definitions
  • A Developmental Framework
  • Characteristics of Effective CRE Programs
  • How to Sustain CRE and Bullying Prevention Programs
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 7. Classroom Interventions and Individual Behavior Plans
  • What Educators Should Know About the RTI Model
  • RTI as a Schoolwide and Classroom Management Approach
  • Effective Classroom Management Approaches
  • Tier 2 Behavior Plans for Students
  • Behavior Planning for Tier 2 Students
  • Summary of Tier 2 Behavior Planning
  • Individualized Behavior Plan (BIP)
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Effective Home-School Partnerships
  • The Importance of Home-School Partnerships
  • Principles and Key Features of Home-School Partnerships
  • Characteristics of Effective Home-School Partnerships
  • Home-School Partnerships and Challenging Behavior
  • Illustration from Practice
  • 9. Community and Interagency Partnerships
  • Poverty, Immigrant Status and Risk
  • Interagency Approaches to Preventing Problem Behavior
  • Core Principles and Governance Structure
  • Linkages to Learning in Action
  • Preventing Problem Behaviors with Community Partnerships
  • 10. Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Culture and Today's Classrooms
  • Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Teaching Appropriate Behavior
  • Teaching Behavior to CLD Learners
  • Conclusion
  • Illustrations from Practice
  • 11. Monitoring Student Progress and Evaluating Prevention Practices
  • Evaluating Outcomes of Prevention Efforts
  • Designing Program Evaluations
  • Measurement Issues
  • Common Hazards in Program Evaluation
  • Disseminating Evaluation Information
  • Measuring Success of Preventing Programs
  • 12. Building and Sustaining Effective Prevention Practices
  • Building Effective Prevention Practices
  • Putting It All Together

Postscript

Postscript

References

References

Index

Index

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Preventing Problem Behaviors

Schoolwide Programs and Classroom Practices


March 2010 | 248 pages | Corwin

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"A wonderful tool for administrators and teachers that offers child-centered resources and ideas to help our learners succeed, thereby making our classrooms more effective. I especially love the sample behavior reports, progress monitoring charts, and the self-monitoring chart. Helping students see that they are responsible for their actions and making them partners in their education are effective practices."
—Megan M. Allen, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Cleveland Elementary School, Tampa, FL

Prevention is the key to a successful school behavior plan!

In today's increasingly diverse PreK–12 classrooms, problem behaviors can often interrupt instructional time and disrupt learning. Designed for 21st-century school leaders, administrators, behavior specialists, and classroom teachers, this research-based guide offers specific strategies and plans for preventing problem behavior at both the classroom and school level.

Based on the premise that early response to problems can lead to better outcomes for students, the book's content is framed around four essential areas: foundations, intervention, collaboration, and evaluation. Within these areas, this accessible guide features:

  • The latest information on the science and practice of prevention
  • Reasons why conflict resolution, peer mediation, and bully-proofing are essential to prevention
  • Effective practices for teaching social skills to young children
  • Proven techniques for implementing schoolwide positive behavior support
  • Tools for using individual behavior plans to prevent problems
  • Ideas for home-school and community partnerships and culturally responsible teaching
  • Critical strategies for monitoring student progress and evaluating prevention practices
  • New, updated chapters, including information on preschool behavior support and RTI

This valuable resource provides all the tools and strategies school leaders and teachers need to keep children focused on learning.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • 1. Prevention Science and Practice
  • What We Know about Prevention Practice
  • What We Know about Response to Intervention
  • What We Know about Behavior and Academics
  • Changing the Lives of Students with Problems
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 2. Preschool Behavior Support
  • Importance of Teaching Social Skills in Preschool
  • Effective Practices for Teaching Social Skills to Young Children
  • Teaching Young Children How to Behave in Social Settings
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 3. Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support
  • Definition and Importance of SWPBS
  • Characteristics and Effective Practices of SWPBS
  • Effectiveness of SWPBS
  • Perspective on School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 4. Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in School Settings
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions
  • Theoretical Underpinnings of CBI
  • Current Research on CBI
  • School-Based CBIs
  • A CBI Example
  • Summary
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 5. Social Skills Instruction and Generalization Strategies
  • Social Skills, Social Competence, and Curricula
  • Generalization of Social Skills and Building Performance Competence
  • Why Social Skills Programs Sometimes Fail
  • Gaining Community Support for Social Skills Training
  • Importance of Improving and Generalizing Social Skills
  • 6. Conflict Resolution, Peer Mediation, and Bullying Prevention
  • Some Program Definitions
  • A Developmental Framework
  • Characteristics of Effective CRE Programs
  • How to Sustain CRE and Bullying Prevention Programs
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • An Illustration from Practice
  • 7. Classroom Interventions and Individual Behavior Plans
  • What Educators Should Know About the RTI Model
  • RTI as a Schoolwide and Classroom Management Approach
  • Effective Classroom Management Approaches
  • Tier 2 Behavior Plans for Students
  • Behavior Planning for Tier 2 Students
  • Summary of Tier 2 Behavior Planning
  • Individualized Behavior Plan (BIP)
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Effective Home-School Partnerships
  • The Importance of Home-School Partnerships
  • Principles and Key Features of Home-School Partnerships
  • Characteristics of Effective Home-School Partnerships
  • Home-School Partnerships and Challenging Behavior
  • Illustration from Practice
  • 9. Community and Interagency Partnerships
  • Poverty, Immigrant Status and Risk
  • Interagency Approaches to Preventing Problem Behavior
  • Core Principles and Governance Structure
  • Linkages to Learning in Action
  • Preventing Problem Behaviors with Community Partnerships
  • 10. Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Culture and Today's Classrooms
  • Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Teaching Appropriate Behavior
  • Teaching Behavior to CLD Learners
  • Conclusion
  • Illustrations from Practice
  • 11. Monitoring Student Progress and Evaluating Prevention Practices
  • Evaluating Outcomes of Prevention Efforts
  • Designing Program Evaluations
  • Measurement Issues
  • Common Hazards in Program Evaluation
  • Disseminating Evaluation Information
  • Measuring Success of Preventing Programs
  • 12. Building and Sustaining Effective Prevention Practices
  • Building Effective Prevention Practices
  • Putting It All Together
  • Postscript
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"The authors provide a rigorously researched, highly accessible resource for preventing, minimizing, and responding to students' challenging behaviors. A major strength is the wide array of evidence-based, culturally responsive practices presented in ways that school personnel can readily apply. Teachers, administrators, and related service personnel will find this well-sequenced text both motivating and instructive as they consider how best to address the academic and behavioral needs of their students."
Michael S. Rosenberg, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Special Education, Johns Hopkins University
"This clearly written book provides a comprehensive review of programs and strategies that support positive behaviors in our schools. The connection between social behavior and academic achievement has long been recognized. The authors go beyond describing this link to clearly delineate the factors that must be addressed, including early intervention, the use of evidence-based practices, and progress monitoring. They also address the need for building and sustaining the supports necessary for success, such as partnerships with families and community agencies and culturally responsive teaching. This book is for educators and administrators who are committed to preventing problem behaviors in schools."
Joan Robbins, Director of Special Services, De Soto School District, KS
"A wonderful tool for administrators and teachers that offers child-centered resources and ideas to help our learners succeed, thereby making our classrooms more effective. The book contains tools to help our students think through their problems, learn social skills necessary in everyday life, and focus on positive results. I especially love the sample behavior reports, progress monitoring charts, and the self-monitoring chart. It is so effective to help students see that they are responsible for their actions and to make them partners in their education."
Megan M. Allen, Fourth-Grade Teacher, Cleveland Elementary School, Tampa, FL

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