Behavior Management Strategies

Essential Behavior Management Forms

• Incident Report

  Use this report for quick documentation when a behavior incident occurs in your classroom. This sheet can prove to be an effective way to report misbehavior and maintain order in the classroom .

• Decision Making Sheet

  Try a printable worksheet that helps intermediate through secondary students make better decisions concerning their classroom behavior.

• Rules, Consequences, and Rewards List

  A list of rules, consequences, and rewards to assist with the behavior management of your classroom.

• Awards, Certificates, and Notes for the Classroom

  Reward your students with an award, a note, or a certificate for outstanding work or behavior.

• More Essential Behavior Management Forms

Behavior Management Tips & Advice

• Proactive Measures for Behavior Management

  A list of proactive measures that can be taken to keep order in your classroom

• Top 10 Behavior Management Tips for the Classroom

  Enjoy a collection of terrific behavior management tips and advice from experienced educators on behavior management. We hope that every teacher who spends his or her days making a difference in the life of a child will appreciate these choice bits of wisdom

• Are Teachers the Culprits Behind Poor Behavior?

  If you're having behavioral problems in your classroom, find out if your own actions could be creating an environment that encourages students to misbehave. New teachers will find this advice particularly valuable.

• Characteristics of Effective Behavior Managers

  Improve behavior management in your classroom. This reference lists characteristics of teachers who are effective behavior managers.

• Classroom Management Strategies

  Get instant ideas on how to manage your toughest behavior challenges. These strategies will help you improve behavior management in your classroom.

• Guidelines for Behavioral Observations

  The guidelines outlined in this article will be helpful in performing a thorough behavioral observation. New teachers will find this resource particularly valuable.

• Working with Emotionally and Behaviorally Challenged Students

  Effective techniques to use while working with students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD).

• 5 Meaningful Classroom Rules

  How to create, explain, and practice classroom rules that really mean something.

Classroom Discipline

• Discipline Must Be Logical: Teaching Advice

  In this excerpt from Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, Rafe Esquith discusses discipline and how punishments should fit the crime. New teachers will find this behavior-management advice particularly valuable.

• Tips for Achieving and Maintaining Discipline

  There are certain steps you can take to ensure that your students are disciplined and behave in an appropriate manner. Find those tips here. New teachers will find this behavior-management resource particularly valuable.

• Students' Contributions to the Rules

  Brainstorm classroom rules with your students at the first of the year so your students know what is expected of them and feel responsible for following the rules. This is excellent classroom management advice, especially for new teachers, because it makes students an important part of the behavioral process.

• Discipline Strategies in the Music Classroom

  Distribute an article that gives discipline strategies and behavior management tips to use in the music classroom.

• Setting Limits for Effective Behavior Management

  The general guidelines for setting limits with all ages of children are listed here. New teachers will find this list especially helpful for behavior management and classroom discipline.

Behavior Techniques

• Behavioral Contracting: A Technique for Handling Disruptive Behavior

  This behavior management technique involves using behavior contracts to prevent poor behavior.

• Bully-Proof Your Classroom

  Find suggestions on how to make your classroom a peaceful, non-threatening environment. Learn how to increase school safety by bully-proofing your classroom from the first day of school. New teachers will find this resource particularly valuable.

• Catch Them Being Good: A Technique for Handling Disruptive Behavior

  This behavior management technique includes ways to focus on the good behavior a child displays.

• How to Manage Disruptive Behavior in Inclusive Classrooms

  Managing disruptive behavior is examined in detail. The teaching teaching methods and strategies discussed in this article focus on behavior management in an inclusive classroom.

• Tough Love: How to Work with a Disruptive Student

  You're a teacher challenged with a difficult student. You've tried being nice and not so nice, going back and forth between these extremes. Now may be the time to try "tough love," an approach that works.

• Establishing Trust

  The key to effective behavior management is establishing trust. This article details the key points to facilitating a trustworthy environment.

• Convey Acceptance

  This handy list of behavior management techniques will help you build trust and establish a positive environment in your classroom.

• Characteristics of Effective Behavior Managers

  This set of guidelines will assist you to improve the behavior management in your classroom. This reference lists characteristics of teachers who are effective behavior managers and what strategies they use to keep their class running smoothly.

• Variation of the Good Behavior Game

  This behavior management technique focuses on helping control students who thrive on acting out to gain peer attention.

Positive Student Behavior

• Positive Classroom Behavior

  Read ideas and find resources on establishing and maintaining acceptable behavior in your students. New teachers, who are determining the most effective teaching methods for their classrooms, will find this behavior management resource particularly valuable.

• Positive Descriptions of Student Behavior

  An extensive list of verbs and phrases that will help you to prepare positive, descriptive statements about a student's behavior. New teachers will find this resource particularly valuable when they're writing their first report cards and progress reports.

• Putting a Positive Spin on Peer Pressure

  Peer pressure has the potential to be a powerfully positive force. By leading students through self-awareness activities, you can create a group of peers who value individualism, practice it in their own lives, and encourage it in others.

• Awards, Certificates, and Notes for the Classroom

  Reward your students with an award, a note, or a certificate for outstanding work or behavior.

Conflict Resolution

• Conflict Resolution Lessons

  Find a variety of conflict-resolution lessons from Educators for Social Responsibility. You'll learn how to create a peaceable classroom, prevent bullying, and more.

• Five Styles of Handling Children's Conflicts

  A chart describing different ways to handle conflict in the classroom plus their uses and limitations.

• Responding to Conflict Amongst Young Children

  Here are some suggested ways for teachers to handle conflict in their classrooms. Using these techniques in your classroom will promote peace and school safety.

• Identify the Resolution

  This handout is for use in the There Are Many Ways to Resolve Conflicts lesson plan

• More Conflict Resolution Resources

Classroom Organization

• Room Arrangement

  Arrangement of class space is crucial when dealing with disruptive students and important to consider for all students.

• Environmental Interventions

  Adapting the environment to the learner is a key to managing disruptive behavior. This list details some basic environmental interventions.

• More Classroom Organization Resources

Behavior Forms & Charts

• Blank Behavior Contract

  After completing this behavior contract with a teacher, students are bound to following it. This behavior management printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.

• Charting and Reinforcing Behaviors

  This behavior management article includes two handy charts to track student behavior as well as a list of possible positive reinforcers.

• Incident Report

  Use this report for quick documentation when a behavior incident occurs in your classroom. This behavior management printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.

• More Behavior Management Forms

Additional Resources

• Elementary Classroom Survival Tips

  These survival tips will help teachers of grades K-4 successfully manage their classroom. Check out the curriculum planning tips to find advice for elementary art, math, reading, science, and more!

• Getting to Know Your Students

  Get to know new students through icebreakers, name games, and first-day celebrations. Our activities and advice will help teachers develop classroom community and establish positive relationships.

• Advice from Veteran Teachers

  New teachers will find valuable advice from experienced teachers on parent-teacher communication, lesson planning, and more. Use these resources to help manage your classroom and plan your curriculum.

• Personalizing the Secondary Classroom

  Find ideas and activities for personalizing your secondary classroom. These articles, printables, and guides will aid teachers in making their classroom safe and inviting for grades 9-12.

• New Teacher Resources

  Discover everything a beginning teacher will need for a successful school year, from tips for your first day, to classroom-management advice, to printables and lesson plans that will support your curriculum all year long.

• Back To School Headquarters

  Return to school this fall prepared to conquer any questions you or your students might have about the school year. Our resources range from teaching students the school's layout to assessment tips.