Essential Skills for Elementary Teachers. Practice and master the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports skills you need to improve students’ behavior and support academic success. 7 step strategy for managing behavior expectations. Classroom Management in Action is a practical research-based training course for mastering the nuts and bolts of classroom management. Both instructional and entertaining, it provides educators of all skill and experience levels strategies that decrease behavior problems and increase student social and academic achievement.

1. Classroom Management in
Action
A data-driven training approach to
improve classroom climate and
student performance
Claudia Vincent, Ph.D., (cvincent@irised.com)
Brion Marquez (Bmarquez@irised.com)
Jessie Marquez (Jmarquez@irised.com)
IRIS Educational Media, Eugene, Oregon
This project was funded by a Grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S.
Department of Education, Grant # R324A080150

2. The problem
Teachers are constantly challenged by correcting problem behavior, and spend
too much time on classroom management.

3. New Teachers Project Survey (2013)
 Which activities have improved the quality of your instruction or helped you
be a better teacher?
 Experience over time trying different things (78% strongly agree)
 Observations of other teachers in their own classrooms (61% strongly agree)
 Formal professional development courses (42% strongly agree)
 What has made it most challenging for you to teach effectively over the
course of your career?
 Insufficient time for planning and collaboration with other teachers (40%)
 Having students who are behind academically or behaviorally challenging (40%)
 Having students whose out-of-school lives distract from their focus in school (40%)

4. What is effective classroom
management?
 A classroom layout that allows the teacher to
move, scan, interact
 Prevention of disruptive student behavior
 Define behavioral expectations
 Proactively teach what behaviors are appropriate
 Praise students who follow the rules
 Provide pre-corrections
 Responding to student behaviors interfering
with instruction
 Re-direct students
 Provide a continuum of consequences

5. Classroom Management in Action
 Builds on recommendations in the literature
 Responds to teachers’ needs and concerns
 Online delivery
 Core components
 Module 1: Classroom Management in Action (identifying problems and potential solutions)
 Module 2: the Progress Monitoring Tool (irisPMT) (elementary student behavior assessment)
 Module 3: How to Use the PMT and CMA (implementation guidelines)
 CMA is built on the response-to-intervention logic:
 Continuing data collection allows informed decisions about the effectiveness of classroom
management

6. CMA instructional strategies
 Show rather than tell
 Use video to present clear models
 Provide examples and non-examples
 Provide summaries
 Provide printable information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnszQLO1RtE

7. Module 1: identifying problems &
potential solutions
Three sections:
 Planning and organization
 Proactive prevention of problem behavior
 Responding to problem behavior
Each section has these components:
 Coaches Corner
 Skill building videos
 My action plan
 Printable summary sheets/checklists

8. Module 2: Progress Monitoring
 An online universal screening and progress-monitoring tool comes with the
course.
 Currently houses the Elementary Social Behavior Assessment (ESBA)
 12 items assessing social behaviors necessary for academic success
 Derived from extensive research conducted by Hill Walker and colleagues
 Completion requires relatively little time
 Automatically generated data aggregations facilitate decision-making

9. Module 3: Skill builders
 12 skills reviewed for classroom management
 Online course provides three knowledge checks for teachers.

10. The Elementary Social Behavior Assessment
(ESBA)
1. Listens to and respects the teacher
2. Follows the teacher’s directions
3. Works with effort
4. Does seatwork assignments as directed
5. Makes assistance needs known in an
appropriate manner
6. Follows rules
7. Avoids breaking rules even when
encouraged by a peer
8. Behaves appropriately outside the
classroom
9. Works out strong feelings
10. Can have “normal” conversations
without becoming hostile
11. Gets along with peers
12. Resolves peer conflicts without teacher
assistance

11. Initial evaluation studies
Three evaluation studies were performed on Classroom Management in Action
For a full discussion of all three studies, see:
 Marquez, B., Vincent, C., Marquez, J., Pennefather, J, Smolkowski, K., &
Sprague, J.R. (in press). Opportunities and Challenges in Training
Elementary School Teachers in Classroom Management: Initial Results from
Classroom Management in Action, an Online Professional Development
Program. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education.

12. Learn more about Classroom
Management in Action
 Free resources here.
 Course description here.
 Original Presentation for the Northwest PBIS conference.