STEDI Study Notes with Questions and Answers

STEDI Study Notes with Questions and Answers Behavior Principle 1 [Classroom Management] ANSWER Behavior is largely a product of its immediate environment! Ex) The classroom environment that teachers create through the expectations they set will influence students more than outside factors do. This allows teachers to take control and influence the students' behavior in their classrooms. If a student is acting out, the teacher should make a special effort to alter the immediate environment in the classroom. If the teacher changes this environment in a positive way, the behavior of the students will change. Ex) Change sitting arrangements. Who's Behavior Can We Control ANSWER ONLY OUR OWN!! We can work to improve the likelihood Behavior Principle 2 [Classroom Management] ANSWER Behavior is strengthened or weakened by its consequences. Ex) When disruptive behavior becomes a pattern, it is important to take a look at what is happening immediately after the behavior. Attention from a teacher is a powerful motivator for most students. If you pay more attention to students who are behaving appropriately than to students who are not, you will be encouraging appropriate behavior. Ex) Allowing a student to answer w/o raising hand. Behavior Principle 3 [Classroom Management] ANSWER Behavior ultimately responds better to positive than to negative consequences. Ex) People respond better to positive encouragement than to negative processes. Think of the tasks you do every day; if someone thanks you or compliments you on how well you did, you feel much more likely to continue the task. As a teacher, you can help stop undesirable behavior and increase appropriate behavior by genuinely reinforcing the latter. Ex) praising Madelyn to eat so Maddie would Behavior Principle 4 [Classroom Management] ANSWER Ex) Whether a behavior has been punished or reinforced is known only by the course of that behavior in the future. If an appropriate behavior is repeated, it has been reinforced. If an undesirable behavior is