The role of a classroom teacher includes many diverse daily tasks. While the priority in any classroom is the instruction of academic content, teachers are also expected to manage classroom behaviors.

Operationally define challenging behaviors. Challenging behaviors should be defined in terms that are specific, observable, and measureable (i.e., one can see and count the behaviors). Be specific ...

A sign in a classroom at Lead Elementary encourages children to take a break when feeling big emotions. Teachers across the country say student behavior is still challenging post-pandemic, and more ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Nearly half of all new teachers leave the profession within their first five years, and sometimes their departures have less to do with teaching and more to do with managing disruptive ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Measuring the academic performance of students has remained a top public priority over the last decade. More recently, public attention increasingly has focused on the social and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – According to a new study, the Pew Charitable Trusts says the longer this pandemic continues, the more disruptive behaviors are happening K-12 classrooms. This includes crying and ...

The 2021-2022 school year began full of promise. Students, families, and educators were ready to get back to pre-pandemic learning routines. Almost no one was prepared for how the landscape had ...

Two months into this past school year, I was approached by a few teachers about the challenges they were having with students. The year was just beginning, but these teachers—two new to the profession ...

Several skills we developed in childhood helped us ease into adulthood. One of these was the ability to regulate our emotions. But we didn't all master this skill at the same rate, nor do we all ...

“Every individual should be able to access things that they like,” said Monica Fisher, M.Ed., BCBA/COBA, director of the behavior department at Monarch Center for Autism during an edWebinar. “It is ...