The number of times a teacher compliments or recognizes a student’s good behavior, compared to how often the teacher reprimands the student, the more likely that student is going to stay focused on ...

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Disruptive classroom behavior or failing to meet reasonable behavioral expectations set forth by instructors have the potential to harm the learning environment for other students and to create unsafe ...

The start of a school year means a new seating chart for each classroom—full of students that the teacher likely hasn’t met. Without knowing the students, how does a teacher know where to assign their ...

Student behavior problems continue to plague schools, and educators say they’ve actually grown more serious, according to a recent survey by the EdWeek Research Center. Nearly half of teachers, school ...

Student behavior is a popular conversation among teachers, leaders and consultants. It’s hard to teach students content when student behavior distracts us from doing our job. Some teachers will seek ...

In many elementary schools, it's easy to know who the class clown is, because on a thermometer cutout on the wall, a clothespin with their name is clipped to the red zone. Likewise, it’s easy to see ...

This investigation analyzed audio recordings of instructional groups for (a) Flanders' categories of interaction, (b) levels of interpersonal functioning attained on Carkhuff's scales of empathy, ...

Anna Sullivan receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). She is Board Chair and Director of the Media Centre for Education Research Australia. Roger Slee rreceives funding from the ...

One of the most vexing dilemmas for teachers is finding the best way to respond to students who misbehave. Experts argue over whether the best classroom-management approach is a consistent, strict ...