1. List of Proactive Strategies for a Respectful
Classroom
• develop ownership of your school-wide culture
• promote the importance of every single staff member’s role in student progress
• develop school-wide rules and expectations as well as consequences for disruptive
behavior
• implement a universal screening system
• foster data-based decision-making
• design a process for frequent review of data and student progress
• teach desired social behaviors
• develop appropriate rules and procedures
• practice those rules and procedures
• apply an effective reinforcement delivery system
• teach students to self-monitor their behaviors
• implement a visual reinforcement system
• utilize active student responding strategies
• design curriculum delivery using the Direct Instruction model
• provide guided note taking; encourage classroom peer tutoring
• develop small groups for differentiated instruction
• Assess choice-making skills
• Identify types and extent of choices available
• Provide opportunities for choice whenever appropriate and feasible
• Allow person to choose one of the available options and honor that choice
• Provide natural consequences for failure to make choices (e.g., you choose for the
student)
• Embed choice into activity or task when possible
• Monitor for success
• utilize a problem-solving, team approach to assess individual persistent academic and/or
behavior problems
• implement appropriate, individual academic supports
• consider a functional behavior assessment for problematic behavior issues
• implement an individual behavior plan
• develop a positive intervention plan