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Pbis: Moving Beyond A Focus On Behavior To Relationships, Flor Gomez
Pbis: Moving Beyond A Focus On Behavior To Relationships, Flor Gomez
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
School-Wide Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (SW-PBIS or PBIS) is a classroom management system that has become increasingly popular in our K-12 educational systems. PBIS was originally created for special needs students and it is now being enforced in schools with a large number of minority student populations. This classroom management method relies on a token rewards system that focuses on reinforcing positive behavior in the classroom. Issues with this classroom management system encompass it being a form of exclusionary discipline, a student conditioning system, and not a culturally grounded and/or responsive system. For this Capstone Project, teachers and students …
It Pays To Behave: Investigating Effective Classroom Management, Rei Massie
It Pays To Behave: Investigating Effective Classroom Management, Rei Massie
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
The focus of this Capstone project is on improving the work ethic and engagement of students by reducing challenging behavior that comes with classroom transitions and management. This is an important issue for educators because when an instructor spends too much time redirecting students, a lot of crucial learning time can be lost. Consideration of the issue included the perspectives of the training and program specialist and child program assistants of the observed after school child care center. Based on the findings, action was taken to help refine the educational opportunities and help decrease challenging behavior during instruction time to …