Techniques for Promoting Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Development

• Teach for success.

  • Provide frequent positive priase and reinforcement.

  • Ignore minor misbehaviors.

  • Reward positive behaviors.

  • Avoid power struggles with students. 

  • Do students like being in the classroom?

  • Students are achieving academic and social gain.

  • Provide clear expectations.

• Focus on promoting proactivity

  • Set Goals

    • High expecations lead to self-worth

    • Pair effort with positive or negative consequences 

    • Give responsibilities 

    • Caring for pets

    • Bulletin board

    • Errands 

• Promote cooperation. 

  • Teach students how to be friendly with each other. 

  • Peer tutoring.

  • Cooperative Learning

• Teach self-management. 

• Model target behaviors and attributes. 

• Focus on motivation through behavior modification. 

  • ​Extrinsic Reinforcers

    • Primary

    • Tangible

    • Token

    • Social approval

  • Intrinsic Reinforcers

    • Task completion

    • Feedback

    • Acquistion of knowledge 

    • Sense of mastery 

 

Behavior Modification 

 

• What is it?