REVIEWER for LET (Professional Education

Interventions

Non - Verbal Interventions

1. Planned Ignoring - based on reinforcement theory that if you ignore a behavior, it lessens and eventually disappear.

2. Signal Interference - any type of non-verbal behavior that communicates to the students without disturbing others, that his behavior is nor appropriate. Signal behaviors must be clearly directed at the off- task student. There should be no doubt in the student mind that the teacher is aware of what is going and that the student is responsible for the behavior.

3. Proximity Control - is any movement towards or taking up a position in the vicinity of the disruptive student. Proximity control combined with the signal interference results in a very effective non-verbal control technique.

4. Touch Control - a light non-aggressive physical contact with the student that the teacher disapproves of the disruptive behavior.

Verbal Interventions

1. Adjacent Reinforcement - placed first in the hierarchy because it gives the student chance to control his own behavior without any intervention on the part of the teacher that call attention to the student on his behavior.

2. Call on the Student Name Drop - when a student is behaving inappropriately, the teacher may redirect the student to appropriate behavior by calling on the student to answer a question, if asking a question is a part of the lesson.

3. Humor - humor that is directed at the teacher or at the situation rather than at the student can diffuse tension in the classroom as well as redirect students to appropriate behavior.

4. Question Awareness of Effect - sometimes students who disrupt learning are genuinely not aware of the effect of their behavior on other people. Making them aware of how their behavior affects other people is a powerful technique for getting students to control their behavior.

5. Direct Appeal - another technique that is very useful for instances in which a teacher enjoys referent or expert power base is a direct appeal. Direct appeal means requesting in a courtesy way that students stops disruptive behavior.

6. Positive Phrasing - many times parents and teachers fall into the trap of putting more emphasis on the negative outcomes.

7. Are Not Fors - of all the verbal interventions, it is the most in use. It is implemented primarily when elementary or preschool children misuse properly or materials and is generally effective behavior in a very positive way.

8. Reminders of the Rules - when the teacher has established a clear set of classroom guideline of rules early and has received students' commitment to the rules, misbehavior frequently may be curved by merely reminding disruptive students about the rules.

9. Glasser's Triplets - Glasser proposes that teacher ask disruptive student three questions in order to direct the students to appropriate behaviors; a. What are you doing? b. Is it against the rules? c. What should you be doing?

10. Explicit Redirection - consist of an order to stop the misbehavior and return to acceptable behavior. the redirection is made in the form of a teacher command and leaves no room for student rebuttal.

11. Canter's Broken Record - has developed a strategy for clearly communicating to the students that the teacher will not engage in verbal bantering and intends to make sure the students resumes appropriate behavior. Canter labelled this method the broken record because the teacher behavior sounds like a broken record to the students.

Intervention for Chronic Problems

If the students continually misbehave even after all the preventive intervention techniques have been appropriately employed but they disrupt learning, interfere with the work of others, challenge teacher authority and often try to entice other to misbehave on a fairly consistent basis could be done.

1. Behavior Contracting - a behavior contract is a written agreement between the teacher and the student that commit the student to behave more appropriately and provides a specified reward for meeting the commitment.

2. Anecdotal Record Keeping - it can be used for remedying chronic behavioral problems. this method has been used successfully by veteran teachers to handle a variety of chronic discipline problems. Anecdotal record keeping is an interactionist approach to controlling classroom behavior.