Behavior Management

Behavior management is vital to running a classroom. Having a good behavior system encourages the students to do their best because they want to be recognized and they want to share their success with their families. A good behavior system focuses on positive recognition and restorative consequences.

While every classroom and group of students are different, it is important to develop a behavior tracking system that works best in the classroom not the teacher. Every year the behavior management system might need changed or a few modifications made to the system to support the students. While I have used a variety of systems, the ones listed below have been the most successful in the past ten years of teaching.

Whole Class Color System

This is a popular system that works in most classrooms and for most students. This is the system that I currently use in my classrooms; however, when a student needs something more individualized I use alternative systems for them.

Individual Color System

This is an example of an individual color system I use if a student is able to respond to the whole class color system, but needs something near-point as a visual reminder, or does not respond well to their behavior being on display in front of the entire class.

Additional Behavior Management Tools:

Social Stories
Classroom store
Behavior Tokens
Visual Schedule
Check off schedule
Class Participation Points
Positive Behavior Notes
Lunch with Teacher
Social Skills Groups focusing on behavior

Individual Visual Schedule with Tokens

This is a more intensive support. The student was able to earn tokens for completing tasks without having any behaviors. The student had a visual of what he was working towards and could keep the tokens on his desk as long as he did not play with them.