ABSTRACT

What if you could use a handpicked set of tools to help children redirect their classroom behavior from dysfunctional to positive? Improving Student Behavior: The Success Diary Approach is a step-by-step guide to promoting your students’ personal development. This book introduces The Success Diary, a novel, easy-to-use method for involving students in their own behavior modification plans. Designed by an experienced school psychologist, this guide consolidates approaches from various schools of behavioral intervention and integrates them into a streamlined, adaptable framework for teachers looking to engage with children’s unique personalities, skills, motivations, and support systems to create lasting behavioral change. Through these flexible, common-sense guidelines and activities, you can empower your students to participate in working towards better behaviors and healthy social-emotional development.

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chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Modifying Dysfunctional Behaviors: Injecting Personality into the Intervention

chapter 1|10 pages

Approaching Dysfunctional Behavior as a Team

Form a Collaborative Triangle

chapter 2|6 pages

Agreeing on the Dysfunctional Behavior

Name the Problem

chapter 3|11 pages

Consider the Cause of the Behavior

Postulate a Theory about the Motivation

chapter 4|15 pages

Finding Alternatives to Dysfunctional Behavior

Define a Required Skill Set

chapter 5|7 pages

Time to Address the Dysfunctional Behavior

Make a Success Diary

chapter 6|10 pages

Improving Behavior

Encourage a Sense of Capability

chapter 7|13 pages

Changing the Dysfunctional Behavior

Monitor for Success