Classroom Management: Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom

1. Recommendation 5
Assess whether schoolwide behavior problems warrant adopting
schoolwide strategies or programs
Book: Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom
Dadan Sumardani
Research on Classroom Management

2. Background
• Stevens and Slavin (1995) use quasi-experimental study, conclude that
investigated the impact of schoolwide changes in structure, organization,
and practices and determined that these changes increased the number
of social relationships among students.
• Currently, more than 7,400 schools nationwide are implementing
schoolwide behavior supports.
• The findings from single-subject study revealed that a peer mediation
program effectively reduced aggressive behavior on school playgrounds.

3. How to carry out recommendation?
Step-by-step applying that ideas

4. 1. Involve an improvement team
• Address schoolwide behavior issues by involving a school improvement
team.
• Teams: administrator, a teacher from each grade level, and a
representative of the school support staff. Also, a behavioral expert, such
as a school psychologist or counselor, and representation from a parent
group.
• The school improvement team has several responsibilities
• School principals must allocate time and support for this team, while
teachers play a key role in the success of a schoolwide approach.

5. Experience: Teams
?

6. 2. Collect the hot spots
• To determine the most effective, the school improvement team needs to
assess systematically.
• Completing teacher surveys that provide general impressions of hot spots around
teachers’ classrooms
• Discuss behavior problems most often occur
• Organizing teams in charge of common areas
• Collecting and analyzing data
• Disruptions outside the classroom often can carry over and disrupt
learning within it

7. Experience: Hot Spot

8. 3. Monitor implementation
• Monitor implementation and outcomes using an efficient method of data
collection and allow ample time for the program to work
• Ongoing documentation of student behavior is fundamental to this
recommendation
• Data collection systems should be:
• Efficient
• Timely
• Meaningful
• No matter how effective a schoolwide intervention, strategy ultimately is,
it might take several months or more to generates significant changes

9. Experience: Is ‘Un-rule’ bad?

10. 4. Adopt a packaged intervention
• If warranted, adopt a packaged intervention program that fits well with
identified behavior problem(s) and the school context.
• find the best approach to address the school’s behavior issues
• Necessary question for teams:
• What are the types of behaviors we want to promote in our school and what are
some specific behaviors we want to reduce or eliminate?
• Is our school willing and able to spend money and other resources, such as time
for training?
• What are the unique features of our school?
• To respond to these queries, the principal should be either a member of
the school improvement team or readily available to meet and discuss
these issues as the team develops its action plan

11. Experience: Intervention

12. Data Availability
• https://www.slideshare.net/dadansumardani/