Module 3, Session 8: Activity

Behavior Intervention and Support Module:
Powerful Teaching

Lou Denti, Ph.D.
Special Education Program
California State University, Monterey Bay

~ Module 3, Session 8 ~
Activity 1

Find a partner in the class and discuss how teacher controlled factors can make a difference in reducing behavior problems in your class or setting. Use Anita Archer’s ideas to stimulate your discussion and then write down one or two of her ideas that you will use in your classroom or with your students the next day or week.

Research indicates that the more engaged students are the less disruptive. How do you actively engage students (not just keep them busy)? What exactly do you do? Does this student engagement reduce behavioral problems?

Describe the best teacher or educator you have ever witnessed instruct a group of students. What did they do to get and keep students attention? Write what they did down using bullet points. How does that fit with the way you teach or will teach?