ABSTRACT
The systematic delivery, manipulation, and arrangement of consequential events drive many of the evidence-based interventions that are employed in schools. This chapter presents consequent strategies that may serve to change behavior or teach skills. The strategies are conceptually divided between those approaches that aim to increase desirable behavior and those that target decreasing undesirable behavior. Interventions derived from positive reinforcement have a longstanding history of use in schools. The positive reinforcement is best delivered immediately following the display or occurrence of the desired or required behavior or skill. Technically speaking, a positive reinforcer is anything that positively reinforces a behavior, so the types of reinforcers are almost endless. Student misbehavior is often reinforced through avoidance or escape of some aversive stimulus. The frequency of students' challenging behavior decreased as they increased their use of the taught phrases.
