Decoding challenging classroom behaviors : what every teacher and paraeducator should know! / by Ennio Cipani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cipani, Ennio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School children--Psychology.

School children.

Classroom management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

Springfield, Illinois : Charles C Thomas, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Challenging behaviors and poor student performance are often attributed to many of society's ills. As a result of the presence of such factors in some students' lives, changing these students' behavior in the classroom is seen as futile unless one can change their nonschool environment. To facilitate the reader's capability to develop intervention strategies that make functional sense, this text provides sufficient background in understanding why this behavior occurs. In order to design and implement effective intervention strategies, the ability to decode the function of challenging behavior

Contents:

CONTENTS; Chapter 1 - DECODING CHILD BEHAVIOR; Chapter 2 - SIX FUNCTIONS OF CLASSROOM PROBLEM BEHAVIOR; Chapter 3 - BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIOR; Chapter 4 - SHAPING NEW BEHAVIOR; Chapter 5 - BASELINE ASSESSMENT; Chapter 6 - FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT (FBA); Chapter 7 - FUNCTIONAL INTERVENTION STRATEGIES; Chapter 8 - NONSOCIALLY MEDIATED FUNCTIONS OF PROBLEM BEHAVIOR; Appendix A; Appendix B; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE CD-ROM

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-398-08675-3

OCLC:

747410576